Job summary

Senior Pharmacist - Medicines Information/Clinical Services (Part time/Full time)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Pharmacist to join our friendly and supportive Medicines Information (MI) team within the Pharmacy Department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).

You will be responsible for providing a high quality clinical enquiry answering service to healthcare professionals within the Trust and to patients via our established medicines helpline.

Alongside this, you will support the Clinical Pharmacy team by delivering direct patient care at ward level and acting as a clinical role model for other staff.

Main duties of the job

In addition to providing a high quality clinical enquiry answering service, you will be actively involved in training and supporting our junior rotational staff and will have the opportunity to participate in service improvement projects.

The medicines information component of this post will be WTE and for the clinical services component, we will consider to WTE.

You will be an experienced pharmacist with excellent communication and organisational skills and the desire to provide a high quality, safe, effective and efficient service to our patients.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Medicines Information

Provide evaluated medicines information and advice from a variety of sources including clinical trials and published literature to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, allied healthcare professionals and members of the public (via the medicines helpline) at all levels to promote the safe, effective, evidence-based and economic use of medicines thus optimising individual patient therapy.

Assist in the production of proactive medicines information aimed at improving prescribing and practice, and therefore patient care both in and outside the pharmacy, through personal communication, memos and bulletins.

In conjunction with the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information, ensure that all standard operating procedures relating to the provision of medicines information are in place and current and all resources are up to date.

Support the training and development of junior medicines information staff and Lead Technician, Medicines Information and be actively involved in checking and reviewing their enquiries where necessary.

Contribute to a peer review system and assist with the audit of enquiries in accordance with clinical governance requirements.

To support and if necessary represent the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information in all aspects pertaining to the management of the pharmacy departments Medicines Information service.

As part of the Medicines Information team, ensure that drug recalls and alerts received into the Trust are dealt with in a timely manner.

Maintain contact with appropriate specialists and groups both nationally and locally to enable best practice to be identified and incorporated into NUH practice.

To support the provision and update of monographs for the NHS Injectable Medicines guide.

Core Clinical duties ( hours per week)

To ensure safe rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patients own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care into the community.

Providing medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, at discharge and also for out-patient visits.

Interpreting and requesting clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness of drug therapy.

Pro-actively liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary team (medical staff, nurses, microbiologists, physiotherapists, dieticians) in order to ensure safe use of medicines.

Making recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.

Person Specification

Training and qualifications

Essential

Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate qualification

Experience

Essential

Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy Knowledge of medicines information resources and systems

Communication skills

Essential

Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential

Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, drug therapy decisions and patient information Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management

Organisational skills

Essential

Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise.

Physical skills

Essential

Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet