Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

3 weeks ago

Northampton Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Northampton General Hospital Full time

You will be working within our established high-cost drugs and homecare pharmacy team in the management, monitoring of high-cost medicines prescribing such as biologics. In addition, you will provide pharmaceutical support to clinical areas that are high-users of high-cost drugs which include rheumatology, dermatology, neurology and adult medical day case unit. The role involves medicines advice, cost-impact analysis as well as leading on safe introduction of new high-cost medicines. You will regularly undertake work-based projects, service review, audits and participate in medicines pathway design and medicines optimisation agenda at local and regional level.


You will also be part of the wider clinical pharmacy team that is responsible for the pharmaceutical care of our patients from admission through to discharge. This involves regular ward clinical commitment to enable you to develop close relationships with the wider Pharmacy team. Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.


We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.


We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. Specialty Clinical Pharmacy Service


To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety to develop and enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
To monitor interventions in treatment, to identify training and information needs.
To lead and support on quality improvement of medicines.
To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.
To support the development and implementations of medicines related guidance, policies and procedures within speciality area.
To facilitate the development and implementation of high-cost drugs related guidelines.
To undertake work-based QI projects with the support of the Principal High-cost drugs pharmacist and/or Homecare lead pharmacist
To undertake data analysis and reporting relating to high-cost drugs to meet the requirements stipulated by commissioners.
To attend appropriate Directorate meetings to ensure that pharmaceutical issues are considered.

Education, Training and Supervision


Attend clinical pharmacy team meetings 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 pharmacist trainee training.
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 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.
To help provide the training for Technicians enhanced patient counselling skills and Medicines Management Technician training.

Education, Training and Qualifications
Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
Achieved (or working towards) postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience)
Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Medicines Information training

Post-registration clinical pharmacy experience within hospital, PCN, community.
Teaching, supervising and training staff
Undertaken service improvement / quality improvement projects or audits
NHS arrangements, eg CCGs, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance, PCNs, NHS Digital

Computer skills, eg databases
Ability to work alone or as team member
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Both full time and part time candidates should have the ability to work shifts that will cover 7 days of the week as the NHS moves towards 7 day service provision.
Self-motivated and able to motivate others to achieve a high level of performance

Effective leadership qualities
Ability to be flexible and respond to the needs of the organisation

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