Senior Pharmacist, Critical Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide effective clinical and medicines optimisation service to patients admitted and discharged through Critical Care. This includes leading on all aspects of prescribing, administration and governance within the specified specialties
• Liaise with Pharmacy Managers/Team Leaders, Senior Clinicians and Senior Nurse Managers in Critical Care services, to co‑ordinate and ensure all services from pharmacy provide the best in seamless pharmaceutical care for these patients, innovating service change when necessary to achieve this
• Attend daily consultant‑led multi‑professional ward rounds to actively facilitate and provide highly complex medication review and guide doctors in appropriate therapy choice for patients and avoidance of medication errors where advice may regularly be challenged
• Attend weekly therapy‑led long term ward rounds focussing on progressive rehabilitation and multidisciplinary goal setting
• Prescribe medicines in the capacity of an Independent Prescriber in line with current legislation, local policies and within one’s own level of experience and competence
• Ensure that wards and duties are clinically and operationally covered, while taking into account the needs of the service and the requirements of the team members allocated to Critical Care, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery department, ensuring that patients are seen by the most appropriate pharmacist and that the best level of service is provided within available resources and capacity. This will include the preparation of rotas and responding to annual leave and sick leave
• Actively involve and represent pharmacy at the West Midlands Adult Critical Care Network Pharmacist Group and at national/regional multidisciplinary specialist interest groups relevant to Critical Care, e.g. UKCPA Critical Care Pharmacy Group
• Act as the point of liaison for any service developments that involve medicines or pharmacy services in Critical Care
• Support the development, implementation and adherence to local and national guidelines/policies to ensure cost‑effective and safe prescribing within the specialities
• Support the division in managing its drugs budget, provide information on trends in drug expenditure in relation to the budget. This also includes horizon scanning and supporting new drug evaluations through the Trust Drugs and Therapeutics Committee
• Identify and manage the risks associated with medication use at UHCW NHS Trust
• Investigate complaints and clinical incidents under the direction of the Pharmacy Governance and Safety Team and the wider multidisciplinary team. Support the investigation of medication‑related incidents and formulation/delivery of action plans across the Trust to address any problems identified within Critical Care
• Act as a mentor and role model as an expert clinical pharmacist, manager and leader
• Support and contribute to the clinical governance agenda(s) of the Critical Care
• Support the provision of parenteral nutrition to critical care patients when required
• Assist the specialty in formulary related issues including the preparation of new drug request forms for submission to the Drugs and Therapeutic Committee. Advise the pharmacy procurement lead of proposed changes in prescribing to ensure that stock reflects usage and that competitive purchase prices are achieved

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview; any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

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