Clinical Community Pharmacist - Darlington, County Durham, United Kingdom - County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Description

We have an opportunity for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist to join our pharmacy team.

We pride ourselves in working at the leading edge of clinical pharmacy practice and medicines optimisation, with our teams winning national recognition for innovative, high-quality patient care.

The post will be based at either Darlington Memorial Hospital or University Hospital of North Durham however the successful applicant may be required to work on any of the Trust hospital sites.

We pride pourselves on the quality of the pharmaceutical care we provide for patients. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver a high standard of near-patient specialist pharmaceutical care to our patients.

In addition, they will support the pharmacy team to deliver governance, education, training and service improvement to their specialist area.

They will help shape the strategic direction of pharmacy by supporting the development of innovative new services.

To achieve this we will support the successful candidate with mentoring and development opportunities including independent prescribing, RPS portfolio development and other further education opportunities.

We look forward to receiving applications from forward thinking, motivated pharmacists who share the values of County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

Applicants currently undertaking a postgraduate Clinical Diploma may be eligible for financial support to continue this with us. We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham.

We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented
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Deputising for the Pharmacist Advanced for their area and in so doing will be required to supervise a team of clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support workers, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy and medicines management services to an agreed standard and to a designated group of patient and service users
Providing medicines management, medicines optimisation and medicines reconciliation services to help achieve department priorities and targets on a designated ward or group of wards, day case units or clinics as decided by the Lead Pharmacist
Helping to develop and implement local policies and guidelines on good prescribing practice.

Influencing local practice to ensure safe medication use, and to ensure that their own practice and the practice of others effectively acknowledges good prescribing practice, patient safety and risk minimisation.

Being involved in providing clinical pharmacy service to designated multidisciplinary team structures e.g. out patient clinics, pre assessment.
Providing high quality patient education on medicines use in both in-patient and outpatient settings.
Supporting the planning and implementation of service changes and new treatments, as agreed within the pharmacy service.
Acting as a professional checker in the dispensary and/or chemotherapy service
Good understanding of medicines reconciliation and how it fits into the larger function of hospital pharmacy
Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to ward/clinic based situation Supervision and training of others
Provision of complex information on medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues to senior Consultants and managers Sound knowledge of MI resources
Good understanding of current pharmacy /NHS issues

Ability to demonstrate an area of expertise within a field of pharmacy practice
Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent Completed a suitable postgraduate qualification (eg Clinical diploma) or demonstrated sufficient experience to meet RPS post-registration foundation competence standards
Post qualification training or experience in the relevant subject area, preferably to Post graduate Masters level

Sufficient experience to be able to provide near-patient clinical pharmacy services
Able to work as an autonomous practitioner in all areas of pharmacy practice
Experience of delivery of formal education and training sessions Hospital pharmacy experience Experience within the relevant subject area/speciality

Membership of RPS or a relevant Clinical Pharmacy Organisation appropriate to the subject area

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Darlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust