Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

Description

Employer Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Town Oxford Salary £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/05/2024 23:59

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Rheumatology Band 8a Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to join our dynamic rheumatology pharmacy team supporting our service to patients with rheumatology conditions.

This exciting post promises to bring opportunities and challenges working within a dedicated and national award-winning Rheumatology team. This post also provides excellent access to multidisciplinary team, opportunity to develop leadership and negotiating skills and to participate in outpatient clinics providing highly specialist services to a defined group of patients.

The successful candidate will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and has a desire to specialise in Rheumatology. You will have experience in good service delivery and management, a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments, excellent communication skills, experience of supervising other staff and providing education and training.

Main duties of the job

This post will provide the successful candidate an opportunity to develop their clinical and project management skills as well as build collaborative working relationships with rheumatology clinicians and colleagues in primary care. Non-medical prescriber qualification is essential and previous experience with immunomodulatory medications would be beneficial.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Providing prescribing advice and support to medical and nursing staff in outpatient clinics and at ward level
• Educating patients about their medicines both over the phone and in an outpatient setting
• Making clinical decisions about adverse drug reactions or abnormal blood results relating to DMARDs
• Developing a clinical pharmacy service within the clinical area and Trust and monitoring outcomes of contributions
• Collaborative development of medicines related policies e.g. shared care protocols
• Involvement in the clinical commissioning of high-cost medications
• Participate in and lead where required on novel pharmacy projects in relation to homecare medicines

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country.

As a pharmacy department we have a strong clinical presence on all four Hospital sites and provide a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical care and extended roles. The post is based at the NHS Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, a specialist hospital renowned for providing excellent orthopaedic and rheumatology care to patients within and outside Oxfordshire.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel .

Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Actively participate as a member of the rheumatology MDT on ward rounds, clinical meetings or outpatient clinics as appropriate to provide pharmaceutical advice to prescribers and other health care professionals.
• To maintain a clinical expertise and develop In Rheumatology as appropriate and in accordance with the Trust and Pharmacy strategies. You will be providing and receiving highly complex information often in situations where there may be barriers to understanding. Requirement to communicate highly complex medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients: patients may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities and other professionals may challenge advice.
• Demonstrate required skills and knowledge for analysing drug, patient specific information in clinical rheumatology to provide advice on medicines, dosages, formulations and production issues. May also have to make decisions in areas where information is lacking, and medical or other opinion differs.
• Ensure compliance with the British Society of Rheumatology guidance and regional Shared Care Protocols in patients who have recently initiated treatment on DMARDs or have undergone a change to therapy, by reviewing patients as part of a pharmacist-led consultation.
• Develop policies and procedures relating to rheumatology therapies.
• Report and investigate adverse medication incidents related to rheumatology.
• Assist with screening of biologic and immunomodulatory prescriptions, utilising monitoring systems such as BlueTeq to ensure compliance with NICE and commissioning guidelines.
• Provide specialised professional and technical education and training to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety, e.g. proactive development of guidelines and patient counselling tools, participation in clinical meetings/teaching sessions.
• Routinely review, update or develop rheumatology shared care protocols in conjunction with the rheumatology team and ICB to ensure safe and effective prescribing in both primary and secondary care

Person specification Qualifications

• Qualified to masters degree level (MPharm or equivalent)
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.
• Leadership qualification or training.

Experience

• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
• Working with senior clinicians and managers.
• Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice.
• Delivering quality improvements
• Recent clinical experience in the rheumatology.
• Implementing a cost reduction programme.

Personal Skills

• Evidence based methodical approach.
• Negotiating and influencing
• Proven time management skills ability to work under pressure.
• Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Mary Collins Job title Lead Pharmacist for Rheumatology Services Email address Telephone number