Detailed job description and main responsibilities

General Practice

• Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to the sub specialities listed above within the Medicine Directorate.
• Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems.
• Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if applicable.
• Ensure the effective outcomes of treatment with medicines.
• Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines.
• Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the optimal use of their medicines.
• Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication, including the transcription of requests for dispensing.
• Demonstrate professional accountability to patients.
• To act as a clinical role model within medicine and demonstrate the ability to provide high quality, safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
• Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical care to patients including medication reconciliation on admission, at discharge, and medication review during inpatient stay.
• Participate in ward rounds to integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant level.
• Manage the allocated patients’ medication and make appropriate referrals.
• Manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
• Demonstrate a whole-system patient-focused approach.
• Demonstrate advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.
• Communicate highly complex issues in all areas of work including communication with medicine patients, patients having language difficulties and patients with physical and mental disabilities.
• Manage pharmaceutical care issues in palliative patients in a sensitive and empathetic way.
• Effectively deal with supply issues and liaise with the buying office as necessary in order to maintain necessary medication.
• Support all clinical staff in the use of medicines outside of the product licence (“off label”) and unlicensed medicines in the directorate in order to ensure that all medication use is of a high quality and safe.
• Develop recognition as a national and/or international pharmacy expert within the chosen medical speciality.
• Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients’ pharmaceutical needs to other pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care environments

Leadership

• Identify and promote best practice in medication use.
• Act as a role model for trainee pharmacists, specialist and junior pharmacists in their Medicine rotation.
• Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use in medicine in order to minimise the number of drug related incidents.
• Motivate and inspire others (both within pharmacy and the directorate) in order to create and maintain a good working environment and facilitate staff retention.
• Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives.
• Demonstrate innovation in the highly specialised chosen field within medicine pharmacy practice.
• Work collaboratively with pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management in the natural agenda for pharmacy services in accordance with the agreed objectives.
• Represent the Trust at appropriate medical speciality external meetings in order to network and share knowledge and experience with other pharmacists at a national level.
• Deputise for the Lead Divisional Pharmacist – medicine when required.

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