Clinical Pharmacist Band 6/7

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service to a range of patient services including wards, out‑patient clinics, homecare, clinical trials, Day Case Unit and Mental Health Services.
• Communicate complex medicines‑related information to prescribers, service users and carers, taking account of barriers to understanding.
• Analyse and interpret medicines information based on specialist knowledge and understanding.
• Plan and organise workload, including delivery of training sessions, completion of audits and project work activities.
• Provide specialist advice concerning patient care.
• Propose policy and service changes that impact beyond the immediate area.
• Promote safe and secure handling, storage and reconciliation of medicines within the area and cost‑effective practice across the Trust.
• Train and educate staff, service users and carers.
• Maintain and retrieve data from information systems and produce reports.
• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy service to clinical teams as part of the multidisciplinary approach.
• Provide patient and carer information on medication taking and identify wider services to support them.
• Deliver against agreed performance indicators for clinical pharmacy, including clinical intervention, monitoring, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical audit and summary reports.
• Ensure safe, cost‑effective use of medicines for inpatients, outpatients and day patients.
• Undertake service evaluation to optimise the use of medicines.
• Supervise dispensary activities professionally, efficiently and accurately, ensuring proper dispensing of medicines.
• Support the introduction of a rotational programme of pharmacists across the Trust.
• Depute for the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist as needed for duties including homecare and mental health services.
• Take part in the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Service advisory on‑call rota on a pro rata basis.
• Adhere to Trust incident reporting procedures.
• Work as part of the multidisciplinary team in clinical areas to provide specialist advice on safe use of medicines.
• Develop positive working relationships with the multidisciplinary team and staff contracted through pharmacy service level agreements.
• Promote best practice in physical assessment of service users on admission to hospital in relation to safe use of medicines.
• Audit practice to ensure physical health and mental health assessment information is available and used as part of medicines reviews.
• Audit practice to ensure that service users are informed about unlicensed / off‑label and high‑dose prescribing when it occurs.
• Design, plan, implement, collate, report, analyse, present and action‑plan medicines audits to address locally and nationally determined medicines issues.
• Support the training and education of junior staff members and undergraduates undertaking placements or involved in research/evaluation.
• Participate in the pharmacy service out of hours provision.

Qualifications

• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy.
• One year postgraduate, pre‑registration experience.
• Postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy and/or Psychiatric Therapeutics (or working towards) or equivalent.
• Experience working as a Clinical Pharmacist.
• Current and continued registration and membership with the General Pharmaceutical Council (practising member).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check is required. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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