Job overview

We are looking for someone with proven clinical skills, initiative and excellent communication skills to join  our team  to provide a high quality specialist service to intensive care and support the perioperative care of our patients in the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

You will spend a considerable portion of the day on wards, working closely with the multidisciplinary team, attending the multidisciplinary ward round and providing pharmacy support and advice.  You will also be involved in the development of Trustwide treatment guidelines and protocols, divisional reporting, clinical audit, risk management and multi-professional teaching. 

As the 7/8a for SWLEOC, based at Epsom, you will line manage the  rotational pharmacists  and the pharmacy team . You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist Planned and Critical Care to lead on dissemination of clinical pharmacy issues across the Trust.

The post includes participation in the late duty, weekend, bank holiday and on-call (EDC) rotas.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to SWLEOC in conjunction with other Clinical and pharmacy staff as appropriate.
• To evaluate the clinical appropriateness, safety and legality of prescriptions based on the patients’ disease, co-morbidities and other medication and treatment taken, contacting the prescriber to make changes as appropriate.
• 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.
• To actively participate in multidisciplinary clinical ward rounds, teaching prescribers good prescribing practices according to legal and Trust requirements to minimise clinical risk to patients.

• To promote safe, rational and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with SWL Joint Formulary and Surrey Heartlands APC, and the recommendations and other evidence based guidelines and frameworks e.g. NICE, Patient Safety Alerts.

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.