- To provide professional pharmaceutical advice to all Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare teams.
- To identify and act on pharmaceutical issues which arise in the community
- To reduce risk associated with medicines use by contributing to the safe medication practice agenda
- To be responsible for communicating and interpreting relevant national and local decisions and policy relating to medicines, to community healthcare staff.
- Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
- Minimum of 2 years experience in providing pharmaceutical advice in either primary care, or hospital or community pharmacy
- Experience in Hospital Pharmacy and Community Health Services Pharmacy or Community Pharmacy
- Evidence of success in service development
- Experience of working with a range of healthcare professionals
- Good written skills with the ability to produce reports proposals and deliver presentations
- Ability to prioritise workload, to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
Medicines Safety Officer Pharmacist - Teddington, United Kingdom - Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Healthcare Trust
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Job summary
To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the inpatient unit at Teddington Memorial Hospital, and support the Medicines Safety officer role to support the safe medicines agenda at HRCH.
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About us
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) provide a wide range of healthcare services for the population of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the London Borough of Hounslow.
The Clinical Services Directorates have a wide range of responsibilities to manage, including co-ordinating and delivering community primary care services on behalf of the Trust. A wide range of these healthcare services are delivered by staff in the community, who include medical staff, paediatric therapists, therapy assistants, health visitors, specialist nurses, nurses, nursery nurses, paediatric phlebotomists and healthcare support workers with the support of administrative staff working in localities with GPs, other health professionals, early years, education, and social care professionals.
The digitalisation of health services is underway with a requirement to become paper-light by 2023 through improving the use of digital tools and adopting mobile and agile working practices and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical delivery.
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