Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

With a particular focus on frailty the Pharmacy team at KCHFT pride themselves with providing a specialist medicines optimisation support and guidance to patients, carers, healthcare and social care staff employed by KCHFT and other organisations through collaborative partnership working. The joint post holder will be expected to support the service requirements as part of their role. 
 
Optimising a person’s medicines is important to ensure a person is taking and continues to take their medicines as intended.  It is a person-centred approach where shared decision making is an essential part  of evidence-based medicine and needs to be system wide.  

Main duties of the job

You will work on location at agreed Community Hospital sites across Kent and at GP Practices within West Kent ABC PCN, Maidstone and remotely as agreed. 
 
This is an evolving and forward thinking service and you will support the provision of safe and effective medicines optimisation services to cohorts of patients within these settings, with, where appropriate, 
opportunity to follow patients across the Primary Care Interface into their normal place of residence.   
 
These Medicines Optimisation Strategy goals include:

• Understanding and improving patient, carers and staff experience 
• Providing evidenced based choice of medicines 
• Ensuring medicines use is as safe as possible

The joint post holder will work within their clinical competencies using specialist pharmaceutical knowledge and skills to work with all stakeholders measuring and monitoring medicines optimisation 
outcomes.to improve and achieve the best possible outcome from medicines for every patient.

The outcomes from the goals are:  

• Patients take cost effective, evidenced based medicines safely 
• Patients take only necessary medicines that they agree to take. 
• Patients are empowered to manage their medications independently 
• Carers, health and social care staff are empowered to support patients to optimise medicines use 
• Patients are supported through effective use of their medicines to stay at home and have minimal hospital admissions and re-admissions.  

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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