Highly Specialist Pharmacist Older Persons Medicine

Band 8a: £33,414 - £37,609

Part time hours: 22.5 per week

Permanent contract

Job Purpose

Leads the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to the Older Persons Medicine (OPM) and general medicine care group in accordance with the pharmacy care group:

1. Provides pharmaceutical advice and develops clinical pharmacy services to OPM in order to optimise patient benefit from treatment with medicines and ensure the safe, efficacious and cost-effective use of medicines. 
2. Undertakes risk management and ensures compliance with medicines legislation.
3. Be the named pharmacist for the OPM service
4. To be responsible for financial savings within OPM medicine
5. To deliver an education and training programme relevant to role

Key Dimensions

1. Capital and Revenue Budgets – Contributory impact on the medicine’s budgets for OPM
2. Staff Numbers – Supervises and manages rotational pharmacists and tutor trainee pharmacists

Shared Core Functions

1. Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks.
2. Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance and support as appropriate.
3. Ensure that resources are used effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures
4. Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated
5. Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required
6. Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trust’s stated objectives & aims

For additional information please see attached Job description

Qualifications

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters or Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy
• Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• NMP qualification or working towards and eligible for training

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Member of specialist pharmacist practice group e.g. UKCPA
• Post graduate qualifications in Parkinson’s Disease or Palliative Care

Experience

Essential

• Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy services
• Participation in weekly dispensary cover, Bank Holiday and weekend working (to demonstrate maintenance of basic pharmacy services and personal competency)

Desirable

• Previous experience of OPM medicine including addressing polypharmacy and deprescribing.
• Previous experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team in a clinic setting.
• Previous experience of homecare services
• Previous management experience
• Previous leadership experience
• Previous education and training experience
• Identifying and implementing change to processes and team culture
• Working across care boundaries in general practice or care homes

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to prioritise, organise and manage workload in an environment that has frequent disruptions
• Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrable ability to work in a team
• Demonstrable confidence as a clinical pharmacist
• Demonstrable ability to use initiative
• Demonstrable ability to maintain quality standards
• Sound knowledge of acute medical therapeutics
• Experience of writing clinical guidelines
• Experience of leading a team

Desirable

• Word and data processing
• Clinical appraisal skills
• Experience of writing shared care protocols and Patient Group Directions
• Experience of providing education to multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of leading service development

Personal Qualities

• Role model
• Prepared to work flexibly in multidisciplinary environment
• Ability to remain calm and work under pressure
• Able to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.