Cardiovascular Pharmacist Specialist
1 month ago
We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Specialist Pharmacist to join our Cardiovascular Pharmacy Team at King's College Hospital. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal, communication, organisational and leadership skills, and will be responsible for providing high-quality, evidence-based clinical advice and information to pharmacy, nursing, medical and other healthcare professionals.
Key Responsibilities- Act as a specialist practitioner within the field and as an expert pharmacist in the Cardiovascular Care Group.
- Provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information using expert knowledge and experience.
- Participate in and contribute to the clinical/ward pharmacy service.
- Actively participate in consultant ward rounds as appropriate.
- Participate in outpatient clinics and assist in the further development of the pharmacists role in this area.
- Undertake patient medication review sessions and patient reviews in outpatient clinics as necessary.
- Actively participate regularly in multidisciplinary ward rounds, antibiotic ward rounds and other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate, delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
- Practice as an independent prescriber, in area of own expertise, as appropriate and provide direct high quality of care to inpatients and outpatients within scope of practice.
- Participate in patient education and counselling schemes for all cardiovascular patients/carers.
- Ensure appropriate and timely supply of medication to patients in conjunction with dispensary staff, including the POD scheme and discharge facilitation for patients.
- Liaise with other Pharmacists, Doctors and GPs to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues.
- Develop shared care guidelines to support GP prescribing as necessary.
- Support the set up and provision of Hackett compliant homecare services as necessary.
- Maintain and further develop specialist information on the use of drugs in clinical conditions relevant to the Cardiovascular Care Group, ensuring accurate and up to date clinical information is available to all pharmacists performing out of hours duties in a format relevant to those pharmacists needs.
- Participate in Trust adverse incident reporting scheme.
- Support the Principal Pharmacist in monitoring drug expenditure within the Cardiovascular Care Group and provide accurate expenditure information, with appropriate analysis, to the Clinical Director and General manager.
- Identify areas of potential cost-savings within the Cardiovascular Care Group, and to implement systems to realise savings and contain prescribing costs.
- Using horizon scanning techniques identify future high cost medications.
- Support the development and implementation of policies to control drug expenditure and ensure cost-effective prescribing.
- Education other healthcare professionals on the costs associated with drug therapy and promote evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing within the care group.
- Attend Care Group or Specialty financial meetings when required.
- Monitor all FP10 and homecare prescribing costs and feed those to the Trust, NHSE and ICS when required.
- Optimise the use of homecare providers to ensure VAT savings are realised as necessary.
Knowledge, skills and experience
- MPharm (Masters Degree)
- Registered Pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council)
- Postgraduate Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent qualification / experience
- Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice
- Experience of working with senior healthcare professionals outside of pharmacy
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of protocol/guideline development
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Be able to provide highly complex Information on medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor level)
- Able to implement and manage change
- Ability to work well under pressure by prioritising and managing time effectively
- Registered independent prescriber of willingness to complete
- Problem-solving skills
- Able to motivate self and others
- Be able to influence junior medical staff, the multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Member of the RPS faculty
- Demonstration of advanced practice using evidence mapped to the RPS Advanced Practice Framework
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