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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist: Clinical Practice Role:
• To provide and develop a comprehensive, highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to the cardiology and cardiac and thoracic surgical wards:
◦ Individual prescription review to optimise therapy
◦ Confirmation of the patient’s medication history
◦ Advice on dosage, side-effects, cautions and monitoring required
◦ Advise on administration of medicines
◦ Appropriate and clear endorsing of prescriptions to ensure safe practice
◦ Monitor the effect and appropriateness of medication
◦ Education of patients on their medication
◦ Involvement in discharge planning and provision of discharge medication
• To provide clinical pharmacy support to other ward areas within the Trust as appropriate on a reciprocal basis.
• To ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures
and medicines legislation.
• To monitor the use of medicines within the ward areas. This includes recording of significant clinical interventions and involvement in
risk management issues which includes recording and investigating clinical incidents/near misses.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation and local policies
• To use available information to influence prescribers and ensure the most cost-effective choice of therapy in accordance with guidelines
as appropriate.
• To participate in ward rounds and clinical meetings as appropriate in order to provide pharmaceutical advice to prescribers and other
health care professionals.
• To ensure accurate patient medication records are updated and maintained electronically.
• To work closely with the ward-based technicians, where available, in providing ward-based pharmacy services.
• To liaise with external agencies to ensure safe, timely and appropriate supply of medicines to patients e.g. Baxter, Homecare
companies etc., where appropriate.
• To participate in ward-based clinical and safe storage of medicine audits.
• To tutor rotational clinical pharmacists undertaking a Diploma in clinical pharmacy and other pharmacists including foundation
pharmacists and to act as a role model and mentor for other pharmacists within the team and within pharmacy.
• To develop personal practice research in accordance with the Trust and pharmacy strategy.
• To contribute to local, national and international specialist interest groups and conferences/meetings.
• To become a non-medical prescriber and work as a non-medical prescriber within the directorate as appropriate
• To provide teaching for the pharmacy and directorate teams as required.

• To develop specialist knowledge and act as a knowledge base/resource for the specialist area and to keep up to date with current
trends and research in the specialist area.
• To work with the clinical pharmacy team to support the strategic developments of the service e.g. electronic prescribing, improved
discharge processes, accredited technician checking etc.
• Actively contribute to the planning and efficient co-ordination of clinical pharmacy initiatives including discharge planning, prescribing
protocols, pharmacists on consultant ward rounds etc
Interviewer information pack
• To contribute to and implement the clinical governance plans of the clinical area and the pharmacy as appropriate.
• To participate in dispensary, evening and weekend work as per rota allocation.

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist: Key Directorate Roles:
• To liaise with the pharmacy team lead and the rest of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure adherence to guidelines where appropriate.
• To identify, review and implement processes, polices and procedures that significantly improve the cost-effective use of medicines
within the directorate.
• To assist in the development and writing of medication related guidelines, in conjunction with the directorate and primary care
teams as appropriate.
• To work with the Directorate Lead Pharmacist on monitoring of prescribing and drug expenditure within the directorate,
and to give advice on cost containment where appropriate.
• To be involved in the preparation of new drug submissions for the Trust Medicines Management Therapeutic Committee (MMTC). To
provide resources to ensure safe implementation of new medicines/technology into clinical practice.
• To provide teaching and induction to new medical and nursing staff as required.
• To manage foundation pharmacist rotations within the cardiac team.
• To organise the clinical and dispensary rotas for the team.
• To manage team meetings within team.

Professional Role:
• To ensure confidentiality is always maintained.
• To be professionally accountable for actions and advice.
• To use experience and clinical judgment to assist in problem-solving and troubleshooting within the Pharmacy department.
• To give professional support to the site operational managers.
• To be aware of the training and competency assessment requirements of foundation pharmacists, diploma pharmacists and student
pharmacy technicians and to participate in their training and competency assessments as required.
• To support the dispensaries by participating in the screening and checking of prescriptions and dispensed items as part of the rostered
duties and as required.
• To participate in Continuous Professional Development.
• To participate in late duty, weekend and bank holiday working according to rotas.
• Any other reasonable duties as requested by the Clinical Director of Pharmacy and Sterile Services.
• To participate in any future 7 day working patterns should the pharmacy department change its current working patterns.