Specialist Clinical Rotational Pharmacist | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Are you a Primary Care or Community based Pharmacist looking to change sector, or a band 6 Hospital Pharmacist looking to develop your career?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist from any sector to progress their career here at Frimley Park.
Our Band 7 rotations are designed to prepare you for your next step in your career.
As part of the rotation you will be supported by our expert Pharmacy education team to develop your clinical skills and knowledge, with opportunities to rotate through a variety of specialities, including: Paediatrics, Medicine & Surgery, or Critical Care.
You will have completed either the CPPE Primary Care Pathway or the Clinical Diploma.
Get in touch or come for a visit to get more information.- To partake in theBand 7 Rotationsthrough different clinical specialties- including Paediatrics, Haematology/Oncology, Medicine & Surgery, and Critical Care.
- Toprovideanddevelopthe clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
- To act as arole modelin the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
- Tosuperviseand train junior and trainee pharmacists.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.- To work closely with the Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers todeveloppharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
- Providea clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed. The service includes:
- medicines reconciliation and optimisation
- review for need of drug therapies, selection of appropriate drug therapies / doses / modification of existing therapies
- counselling patients
- discharge planning
- assessing pharmaceutical care needs
- initiating and carrying out care plans
- advice to doctors / other health care staff
- attending ward rounds as per departmental requirements which may involve flexibility of start / finish time
- To work with clinicians and nurses to develop, implement and monitor theuse ofprotocolswithin the specialist area to ensure the safe use and supply of medicines.
- This includes thedevelopment of protocolsand advice to nursing staff concerning the safe and appropriate use and storage of medication.
- To take an active role in committees relating to specialist area e.g.clinical governancecommittee
- To evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the specialist area.
- To ensure that drugs utilised within FHFT reflect the recommendations, the policies and formulary of Frimley Health and those of tertiary centres. To increaseeconomic awarenesswithin the area through directorate financial reports and to advise on cost effective prescribing.
- To support the production ofdrug evaluationsfor the Area Prescribing Committee as requested by the Prescribing Manager. To make recommendations to the directorate concerning the introduction and use of new drugs.
- To support the Lead Pharmacist in therecruitmentand management of pharmacists or ward technicians under the post holder, including appraisal, review and development.
- To participate in pharmacy practiceresearchandclinical auditactivities.
- To provide professional support to the pharmacyhomecareteam
- To be an active independent pharmacy prescriber, in line with Trust guidelines and current legislation.
This advert closes on Wednesday 20 Nov 2024