Highly Specialist Pharmacist
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Job overview
Want an exciting, demanding, fulfilling job that will truly make a difference to patient care and benefit the region? Then this may be the job for you!
Join our dynamic Respiratory Pharmacy team and play a crucial role in optimising patient care. This exciting opportunity involves:
- Providing expert pharmaceutical support to our respiratory wards.
- Contributing to specialist severe asthma clinics.
- Supporting our Highly Specialist Respiratory Pharmacist.
- Managing pathways and governance for high-cost respiratory drugs.
- Working collaboratively within a dedicated multidisciplinary team.
- Working with our Medicines Value Lead Pharmacist with ongoing projects.
You will be expected to integrate into the multidisciplinary team alongside clinicians, nursing colleagues, advanced nurse practitioners and pharmacy staff to deliver the highest quality pharmaceutical care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with pharmacy, nursing, medical and management teams, you will have the following responsibilities.- Reviewing patients with acute and chronic complex respiratory needs as an integral part of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
- Developing, implementing, and monitoring evidence-based prescribing guidelines and care pathways.
- Providing financial monitoring and reporting on drug expenditure, including high-cost therapies.
- Supporting the development, implementation, and evaluation of pharmacy services with homecare projects
- Supporting the training and education of pharmacists, MMTs and other healthcare professionals
- Championing the medicines optimisation and safety agenda
- Participating in clinical audit and practice research
- Collaborating with other system organisations
The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, organised person with excellent communication and interpersonal skills working effectively under pressure, both alone and as part of a team.
Working for our organisation
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Highly Specialist Pharmacist position available at WUTH.
Person specification
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria- Enthusiasm for the role
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Good leadership skills
- Able to work alone and as a team member
- Able to use initiative
- Able to deal with and resolve conflict and disagreement
- Able to deal with sensitive issues
- Able to deal with constant interruptions, multiple pressures and at times aggression
- Conscientious and reliable
- Methodical with good attention to detail
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria- Good all round clinical knowledge and practical skills in other areas.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills with other professionals, patients and carers
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Excellent written communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills, able to work with all grades of staff
- Ability to interpret and relay complex and sensitive information
- Good organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise own workload
- Ability to work to deadlines and meet set targets
- Integrate research evidence in everyday practice
- Computer literacy
- Up to date knowledge of current NHS policies, processes and structures
- Commitment to and demonstration of Continuing Professional Development
- Able to provide constructive feedback and process suggestions
- Financial awareness regarding the management of drug budgets
Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training
Essential criteria- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experiential learning.
- Extensive experience as a qualified pharmacist working within a range of clinical areas.
- Experience in delivering education and training of other staff.
- Experience of developing evidence based clinical guidelines or preparing written work for review at drug and therapeutics committee
- Undertaken a lead role in audit
- Evidence of post graduate learning or continual CPD
- Independent Prescribing qualification and registration as an Independent Prescriber.
- Other post graduate qualifications ie MSc.
- Published pharmaceutical research in a peer reviewed journal
- Line management experience
Other Requirements
Essential criteria- Current UK driving license.
- Ability to work weekends, evenings, bank holidays and on call to meet the needs of departmental service delivery
Apprenticeship Eligibility Criteria
Should this vacancy be recruited as an apprenticeship, the following criteria will apply:
UK nationals or other persons with a right of abode have an eligible residency status if they have been ordinarily resident in the UK or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of the apprenticeship.
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