What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty and Elderly Care position at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust?
Job summary
Advanced Specialist pharmacist - frailty and elderly care
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Clinical Pharmacist to be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team working within our medicines ward supporting elderly care and frail patients. You will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service across the inpatient medical beds, and out patients within our Trust, working with Medicines Management Technicians and Rotational Pharmacists to deliver a high quality clinical pharmacy service to patients.
Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role.
We are looking for someone with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience; you will have excellent communication, clinical and negotiation skills along with a strong team spirit and experience of supervising other staff.
The candidates must have or be prepared to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification to support the service.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for :
- The leadership and proactive development of specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients within medicine collaboratives.
- Providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to elderly care patients and developing services in line with appropriate national standards.
- Providing expert and highly specialised pharmaceutical information and advice to medical staff, nursing staff, other healthcare professionals and patients, both within the Trust and externally as appropriate.
- To work as an independent prescriber developing the role for designated areas of clinical practice.
- Work collaboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services
- Providing clinical training, guidance, support and supervision of training grade pharmacists, foundation pharmacists, other Pharmacy staff and other Trust staff as required.
- Promoting the medicines optimisation agenda by leading specific audit and research projects in the agreed specialty and provide support to others.
- Monitoring expenditure within the agreed specialty against medicines budget, identifying and implementing cost saving initiatives.
- Evaluating and expanding the role of pharmacy services within our surgical areas, as well as delivering the required medication safety and governance agendas.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time' :
Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
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