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    Lead Pharmacist for Renal Medicine - Reading, United Kingdom - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Reading, United Kingdom

    4 days ago

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    Lead Pharmacist Renal Medicine

    An exciting new opportunity has arisen to be the lead pharmacist for Renal medicine at Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a brand new post to focus on just Renal Medicine. You will have the opportunity to lead a group of pharmacists in providing pharmacy clinical services to Renal medicine working within a healthcare multidisciplinary team.

    We are recruiting an enthusiastic, highly motivated, dynamic pharmacist. The individual will be responsible for delivering, managing, and developing a proactive, high-quality, cost-effective, safe pharmacy clinical to patients.

    The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Service aims to proactively support staff, service users and carers in achieving safe and effective medicines management, optimising the use of medicines by providing a high quality and accessible service.

    We do this by providing:

  • Accurate and independent information and education about medicines to other healthcare professionals, service users and carers.
  • Clinical activities to facilitate the management of medicines by service users within inpatient and community teams.
  • Support to ensure that medicines management resources are used cost effectively within Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and across the local health community.

    • Main duties of the job

  • Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the renal ward
  • Participate in renal transplant clinics ensuring patients prescriptions are processed appropriately and medicines related queries are addressed.
  • Point of contact for general nephrology, low clearance, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
  • Undertake APKD (Tolvaptan clinic with Dr Alchi) - monthly clinic (telephone and F2F), checking APKD shared email daily, ordering and checking blood tests, issuing Tolvaptan prescriptions - Lloyds and Wexham, posting some Tolvaptan to patients)
  • Write and review SOPs, PGDs and drug-related guidelines
  • Liaise with NHSE and ICS to ensure NICEdrugs are available. If amber, ensuring shared care in place
  • Responsible for clinical screening of homecare prescriptions for general nephrology (vasculitis drug avacopan), low clearance, PD and home HD (EPO, roxadustat)
  • Complete homecare applications for hospital-only drugs
  • Responsible for clinical screening of renal BDU prescriptions (cyclophosphamide, rituximab, IV iron)
  • Respond to queries from Out-patient Pharmacy for all renal prescriptions
  • Respond to medication queries from team

    • About us

    Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ' Good' with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust's overall rating has also improved to 'good'. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.

    At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is"Working together to provide outstanding care for our community."

    We are C ompassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

    We are A spirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

    We are R esourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

    We are E xcellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

    Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don't you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    For further information on the job role, please refer to the job description and Person specification attached.

    This job description is not exhaustive and will be subject to periodic review in association with the post holder.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • oCurrent registered practising Member of GPhC
  • oPostgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
  • oIndependent Pharmacist Prescriber or will to work towards qualification
  • oMasters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent

    • Desirable

  • oAdvance Clinical Practitioner
  • oAccredited Diploma Tutor

    • Experience

    Essential

  • oSubstantial Hospital Pharmacy experience of which a significant amount has been within an acute UK hospital environment.
  • oClinical pharmacy experience at ward level.
  • oMultidisciplinary team work

    • Desirable

  • oExperience of writing protocols and PGDs
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