Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

 Communication and Relationships

  Support the provision and presentation of written and verbal reports in relation to medicines governance and assurance to all levels across Provide services

 Develop, maintain and support communication with all levels of staff from a variety of organisations and agencies on complex medicines management related matters and evidence base practice issues. This may include situations in which there is a resistance to change

·       Motivate, persuade and negotiate with key stakeholders to implement clinical and cost effective changes in relation to prescribing and medicines optimisation, being aware that opinions may be challenged by clinicians

          Provide expert  clinical, therapeutic, legislative and best practice advice to all Provide services, service users and the public as necessary, in order to promote safe and effective medicines use, including clinical advice in areas where information is lacking and where medical or other opinions differs

Work collaboratively with all the local partners which include health and social care agencies, third sector and the independent organisations to ensure a unified and coordinated approach around the development of seamless pharmaceutical care for patients

 Key Relationships

 Internal

Head of Medicines Management

Pharmacy and Medicines Management team including Community Collaborative partners

Directors ad Divisional Leads

Health and Social Care Directorate Business Units

Contracts Management Team

External

Community Health Service Pharmacists across East of England

ICS Medicines Optimisation Teams

Specialist Pharmacy Services

Independent contractors e.g. GP Practices, community pharmacists

Third Sector Partners

Patients and Patient Groups

Mid Essex Hospital Trust

Colchester University Hospital Trust

Clinical Commissioning Groups

Healthy Living Partnership (HLP)

Essex County Council Services

Suffolk County Council

ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT

·       Support the identification of Provide pharmaceutical and medicines management needs, through analysis and interpretation of data submitted by primary care providers, public health, directorate colleagues and other information resources, and the comparison of a range of options for delivery of effective pharmaceutical provision

·       Work with the Governance Lead Pharmacy and Medicines and lead on the analyses, monitoring and reporting of information from Epact  data associated with non-medical prescribing, ensuring that prescribing is evidence based, within the NMP Scope of Practice and cost effective and in accordance with local formularies and guidance

PLANNING AND ORGANISATION 

·       Coordinate the Medicines Management work programme, identifying innovation and service re-design in collaboration with affected services and other partner organisations ensuring that Provide key performance indicators are met within agreed timescales

·       Lead on the Medicines Optimisation and Non-Medical Prescribing to influence innovation and service redesign where applicable

PATIENT AND CLIENT CARE

Give specialised pharmaceutical advice to Provide services regarding the safe and effective evidence based use of medicines to support the provision of care to patients

·       Provide pharmaceutical care to patients including medicines reconciliation as required within services 

·       Work with the Head of Medicines Management and  Divisional Leads to demonstrate compliance with the Standards for Better Health relating to prescribing and medicines optimisation across services

·       Contribute to the development and delivery of medicines optimisation training programmes, support the medicines champions in delivering medicines optimisation training

·       Ensure all aspects of controls assurance relating to medicines management are met e.g. medicines procurement, handling, storage and destruction, through the development , review and promotion of medicines policies, audit  and the provision of advice and training to medical, nursing and other staff as appropriate

Support Directors and Divisional Leads in the review of medicines management related complaints, incidents and near misses, including risk assessment, root cause analysis and implementation of related actions

POLICY AND SERVICE

·       Responsible for the interpretation of national, regional and local medicines management guidance or regulations and the development and maintenance of medicines management related policies and procedures for local implementation

 Responsible for the implementation if medicines management related alerts, including patient safety alerts. This includes the establishment of any working groups to implement the action plans developed as a response to alerts

·       Work with the Accountable Officer to lead on the implementation and assurance around the governance framework for controlled drugs

·       Act as Deputy Chair for the Medicines Governance and Safety Group

 Human Resources

·       Identify, develop and deliver training regarding policies and procedures relating to medicines and prescribing to staff and patient/service users

·       Liaise with other healthcare professionals to enable development and delivery of competency tools and training packages for the implementation of new and on-going roles within community care, including new prescriber roles and the use of patient group directions

Research and Development

 Lead on the identification, development and implementation  of medicines management related audits and data collection tools and contribute to the annual audit plan 

·       Work with the Research Development Facilitator to identify medicines related research projects and act as lead on identified research projects 

Freedom to Act

Responsible for the interpretation of national and regional medicines management guidance or regulations, the development of strategy, policies and procedures for local implementation

 Lead on the implementation if the medicines management components if the National Service Framework, NICE guidance and locally develop prescribing guidelines across all relevant services

 Act as a Senior Pharmacist for the development of patient group directions and develop and support the Senior Pharmacy Technician to maintain the process to manage these controlled documents

 Witness the destruction of Controlled Drugs as instructed by the Accountable Officer across Provide in line with the Misuse of Drugs Regulations

Additional Duties

In addition to the above, the post holder will also be expected to perform the key activities below in line with your job role;

Complete Mandatory training in line with Provide policy and procedures

To participate in the staff appraisal process and to undertake for any staff you manage

To keep yourself updated on all matters relating to Trust policy  To provide management supervision where appropriate

 You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary teams in delivering services across Provide