Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 1 year (1 year fixed term)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 343-7086607-FM-AG
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helier Hospital
- Town
- Carshalton
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 pa pro rata inc. HCAS Outer
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principle Pharmacist Reablement and Frailty
Band 8a
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
Main duties of the job
As the pharmacist in the team you will lead on medicines management on the ward. You will conduct in-depth, personalised and goal orientated medication reviews with patients to improve understanding of medicines, address adherence issues and reduce inappropriate polypharmacy. You will also lead on the implementation of self-administration of medicines for patients, including evaluating the impact of self-administration. Ensuring seamless transfer of pharmaceutical care across interfaces will also be a key part of the role.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide, deliver and develop the pharmacy service to the Reablement ward, embedding safe medicines management systems
2. To complete patient-centred medicine reviews and liaise with a prescriber, or use the skills as a pharmacist prescriber, to alter prescribed medicines
3. To support patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines by identifying and addressing medicines related issues which are important to the individual
4. To optimise medicines to support individuals living with frailty to meet their rehabilitation goals
5. To reduce inappropriate polypharmacy
6. To improve adherence and patients’ understanding of medicines
7. To assess the appropriateness of monitored dosage systems, by carrying out individual assessments, and taking specific practical actions to address problems of medicines adherence
8. Communicate highly complex medicine related information with patients and/or their carers who may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities
9. To liaise with relevant health and social care professionals about the patient’s needs including ongoing monitoring requirements
10. Participate in daily multi-disciplinary bedside reviews, providing expert pharmaceutical advice to help create individualised plans for identified medication related issues
11. To support and provide medication advice to other members of the multi-disciplinary team
12. To develop and implement a self-administration policy which enables patients to independently and safely manage their medications on the Reablement ward
13. To provide in-reach to acute in-patient wards and post-discharge follow-up pharmaceutical reviews as needed
14. To support patient safety, service development and flow as patients transfer between care settings
15. To develop links and work collaboratively with pharmacists, other healthcare professionals and agencies to ensure optimum pharmaceutical care for patients during rehabilitation and on discharge to the community
16. To identify and highlight any medicines optimisation clinical governance issues, including liaising with relevant staff and monitoring any resulting action plans
17. To follow procedures to reduce medication harm and medicine waste
18. To provide expert advice to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals to encourage and ensure good prescribing practices, optimise outcomes and reduce individual patient and organisational risk.
19. To ensure services provided are in line with local and national policies, guidelines and frameworks e.g. NICE, Patient Safety Alerts.
20. To develop, implement, evaluate and monitor medicines management guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines associated within the Reablement ward
21. To assist in the maintenance and development of clinical, medicines management and departmental procedures as requested.
22. To identify and address prescribing issues across the interface pertaining to the division and to ensure seamless transfer of pharmaceutical care for patients liaising with the other acute Trusts, GPs, Community and PCN pharmacists as appropriate.
23. To work in collaboration with the Lead Pharmacist for Sutton Virtual Ward to action plan for common issues related to the transfer of information related to medicines across the interface
24. To identify, report and where necessary, investigate issues relating to medicines risk management and incidents, working with senior colleagues to implement appropriate solutions to minimise or alleviate future risk.
25. To participate in clinical incident reporting, assisting in investigations and complaints that require paediatric expertise.
26. To promote safe, rational and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with SWL Joint Formulary and the recommendations and other evidence based guidelines, particularly in relation to Frailty, Deprescribing and Medicines Optimisation
27. To write, monitor, review and update policies, guidelines and procedures designed to improve the pharmacy services to patients within the Reablement ward
28. To participate in the ward/clinical pharmacy service to monitor prescriptions and to provide pharmaceutical advice/drug information (on choice of medicines/dosage/side effects etc.) as appropriate, to health care professionals and patients/carers, to promote the safe, effective and economic use of medicines.
29. To undertake dispensing/checking of prescriptions for patients using the Pharmacy Computer System and in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, providing dispensary cover as required.
30. To participate in departmental meetings to maintain and develop the pharmaceutical service contributing to the development of new procedures as required.
31. To be an authorised signatory for orders placed for pharmaceutical stock with wholesalers and other manufacturers.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Post graduate diploma in clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable criteria
- Non Medical Prescriber fo the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration hospital experience
- Multidisciplinary working
- Demonstrate evidence of good clinical knowledge and skills, knowledge of medicines in polypharmacy and frailty, care of older people and reablement
- Experience of divisional work
- Experience of audit and quality improvement projects
Desirable criteria
- Project/practice research
- Clinical governance and risk management
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills and organisational skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical information
- Good presentation skills, time management, ability to work independently and part of a team
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work effectively and problem solving
Desirable criteria
- Familiarity with CMM pharmacy computer system
- Good negotiation skills, IT skills
- Ability to manage change
General
Essential criteria
- Commitment to CPP
- Professional and enthusiastic
Desirable criteria
- Calm, patient, access to own transport.
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sara Fenner
- Job title
- Head of Urgent Care & Integrated Discharge
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07760163387
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