Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Services

·           To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice.

·           To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.

·           To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews and using patients’ own medicines.

·           To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy.

·           To record your clinical activity and to monitor the outcome of your advice.

·           To monitor interventions in treatment to identify training and information needs.

·           To fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.

·           To participate in CQUINs and QIPPs within the acute medical specialities.

·           To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.

·           Facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA.

·           To undertake validation duties in the dispensary.

·           To supervise, check and, if necessary, undertake the supply of medicines. Technical checking is in place; pharmacists make initial validations and have a professional responsibility to decide on the need for their further involvement in the supply process.

Speciality Clinical Pharmacy Role

·           To develop expertise in paediatrics and neonatology.

·           To obtain/maintain prescribing qualification and support Consultant led ward rounds and clinics.

·           To optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence and to support the patients journey throughout the Trust

·           Have a working knowledge of current practice and protocols within the speciality and how these relate to national and other guidance.

·           Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service, including enquiry answering service for speciality-related queries from other members of the pharmacy team, wards and clinics.

·           To lead and support the development and implementations of medicine related guidance, policies and procedures within speciality area.

·           To lead and support on the data collection relating to medicine use within the Child health directorate

·           To identify new opportunities for the development of pharmacy services and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.

·           To support the Lead Pharmacist Paediatrics in attending clinical governance meetings for the Child health directorate.

Management & Supervision

·           To line manage and lead those staff allocated, undertaking appraisals, supervision and identification of training and development of their skills and knowledge.

·           To assist in the induction of staff into the service; to help identify training and development needs

·           To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.

·           To partake / lead in recruitment of junior pharmacists or other pharmacy staff as required.

Education & Training,

·           To attend clinical pharmacy meetings as appropriate, and education/training schemes relevant to post.

·           To take part in formal and informal training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.

·           To be a supervisor on the Clinical Pharmacy Diploma course.

·           To supervise aspects of pre-registration training.

·           To provide information to patients, parents and carers on admission, discharge and in outpatient clinics regarding treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance, particularly if there is a need to overcome language barriers.

·           To maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement.

·           To take responsibility for own personal CPD by participating in education and training programmes to improve competence.

Other Duties

·           To undertake duties elsewhere in the locality, if required.

·           To undertake on call duties

·           To provide a pharmacy service at weekends.