Advanced Clinical Practitioner Pharmacist

3 weeks ago

Worcester Worcestershire, United Kingdom Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Or maybe you wish to become a more autonomous clinician within Acute & Emergency medicine? Through undertaking a funded MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, you will utilise both higher education learning alongside supported ward based teaching, delivered by experienced professionals. As a trainee ACP you have the perfect opportunity to build a work-based portfolio and continue to extend your existing skills and achieve relevant competencies.
Once successfully qualified as a Pharmacist-ACP, you will provide a hybrid service to Acute and Emergency Medicine areas of the hospital namely, A& E, Acute Medical Unit, Medical Short Stay unit and within our Medical Same Day Emergency Care clinics.
We have successfully developed a number of pharmacist ACPs over the last few years and have an established training pathway in conjunction with a variety of higher education institutions.
During your training years, you will embed yourself as the specialist pharmacist, identifying medicine-related and other issues for attendance/admission within the urgent care foot print. You will also be undertaking your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice which will give you the opportunity to develop yourself in the four pillars: clinical practice, leadership, education and research. Once qualified as a pharmacist-ACP you will be independently reviewing patients with undifferentiated diagnoses who have presented to hospital. This includes history-taking, examining patients, requesting & interpreting investigations (blood tests, radiological imaging etc.) Whilst undertaking this role, you will be supported by medical teams on a day to day basis, consisting of a variety of healthcare professionals with a shared goal of improving patient care and healthcare outcomes for our population.
We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Best services for local people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Work independently once qualified or within the MDT, being responsible for delivering Advanced Clinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacist roles to the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. This will include assessing patients, identifying medicine-related causes for attendance & admission and developing treatment plans to optimise care
Make critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate these to patients and other staff members accordingly.
Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards within the Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.
Use his or her specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants, medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for Acute Medical patients.
Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and the Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.
Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.
Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute medicine comply with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research on pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.
Contribute to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments drug expenditure within agreed budgets.
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:
As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.
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Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy.
Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Clinical specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, RPS advanced level framework or specialist clinical modules relevant to the role.
Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
Have undertaken a Health Assessment course.
Holds or working towards formal teaching/ training on providing feedback.
Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients.
Experience/involvement in implementation of service improvements.
Experience in reviewing medication errors to analyse for trends or complete root cause analysis.
Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of Pharmacists and Pharmacy technicians.
Experience in providing an on-call or resident Pharmacy service.
Experience in training doctors and nurses.
Experience of providing specialist clinical pharmacy service to Acute or Emergency Medicine.
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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