Lead Pharmacist for Nutrition and Hydration

4 weeks ago

Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced pharmacist to join our Complex Nutrition Support Team as the Lead Pharmacist for Nutrition and Hydration. This is an exciting opportunity to further develop your skills and specialise within nutrition.

The Trust's Complex Nutrition Support Team consists of a Dietitian, Speech and Language Therapist, Pharmacist, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Surgical Registrar, and Nutrition Consultant Lead. In addition to this specialist role, you will also join the senior pharmacist team to support and drive the clinical pharmacy service and provide line management support to a team of junior pharmacists.

Main Duties of the Job

  • Act as a role model in the field of nutrition and ensure the service is managed in accordance with the relevant professional, ethical, legal, and locally agreed policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards.
  • Provide professional leadership in developing the pharmacy parenteral nutrition service in accordance with the objectives set by the complex NST.
  • Participate in hospital ward-based "nutrition rounds" with the Nutrition Support Team members and provide specialist clinical knowledge with regard to parenteral nutrition and drug-nutrient interactions.
  • Provide a comprehensive and effective clinical pharmacy support to patients (adult, paediatric, and neonatal) requiring parenteral nutrition within the Trust, using highly developed specialist knowledge and skills.
  • Collaborate with the senior aseptic pharmacist and act as a link between clinical and aseptic pharmacy services, to ensure a joined-up approach to parenteral nutrition supply.
  • Provide expert advice to clinicians, patients, and carers regarding the provision of nutritional support to enable informed decisions based on nutritional assessment and principles of medicines optimisation.
  • Participate in working groups for nutrition as required, including the Trust's Nutrition and Hydration Group.

About Us

We are a friendly and inclusive pharmacy team spread across sites with a large number of staff. We have a large cohort of Non-Medical Prescribers and strong links with our local universities with three teacher practitioners.

We were an early-adopter site for the RPS's Transfer of Care initiative, which led to the creation of the world's first fully integrated hospital to community pharmacy e-referral system: Refer-to-Pharmacy.

We have a Medicines Support team, Homecare team, and specialist pharmacists within the Dermatology, Rheumatology, Cardiology, and Gastroenterology directorates providing out-patient clinics. We have a dedicated AMU team offering an extended hours service.

East Lancashire Hospitals Trust went live with an Electronic Prescribing System (ePR) in June 2023. This system has revolutionised how we work within pharmacy and as a wider Organisation.

You may also be interested to know that East Lancashire Hospitals provides onsite parking and is well connected to the motorway network, making it an easy commuting distance from Manchester and Liverpool, with many of our team hailing from these locations. The Lake District is a short drive away for leisure activities.

Job Responsibilities

See attached documents for full job description and person specification of the role.

The role requires a dynamic, enthusiastic, and proactive individual.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MPharm Degree (4 years) or equivalent
  • Member General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • Postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification to at least diploma level
  • Significant post-registration hospital practice experience in a variety of specialties

Desirable

  • Membership of other organisations UKCPA
  • Independent Prescriber or working towards qualification

Special Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of local and national NHS and Pharmaceutical Policy
  • Understanding of medicines legislation and guidance Medicines Act, Misuse of Drugs Act, Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines, Medicine Guidance Notes, MHRA Alerts
  • Understanding of clinical and risk management guidance as applied to Medicines Management
  • Broad range of understanding of clinical practice and knowledge of medical conditions
  • General knowledge of NHS developments including primary and secondary care
  • Understanding of clinical governance principles
  • Knowledge of external agencies concerned with patient safety NHSLA, NPSA, NPC
  • Knowledge of BAPEN, PINNT, and ESPGHAN guidelines
  • Experience of training

Desirable

  • Experience in supervising a team/service and line management
  • Project management experience
  • Experience of audit management

Experience

Essential

  • Experience with nutrition and hydration in secondary care setting
  • Advanced practice in one or more relevant areas
  • Experience of leading pharmacy services in primary or secondary care
  • Advanced clinical pharmacy experience and practice
  • Ability to deal with complex clinical issues
  • Reports to committees
  • Multidisciplinary working with medical and nursing staff

Desirable

  • Aseptic pharmacy experience

Judgement

Essential

  • Demonstrates clear thinking and able to analyse highly complex problems of an ethical, pharmaceutical, or clinical nature
  • Makes sound decisions with limited information
  • Intuition - anticipate difficulties and take appropriate action
  • Knows when to consult (own limitations)
  • Reflects on own practice and learns from experience
  • Able to identify, prioritise, and evaluate work
  • Effective negotiation skills and ability to persuade others

Desirable

  • Ability to assimilate, analyse, and interpret clinical and financial data.

Communication Skills

Essential

  • Good verbal and written communication
  • Courteous with all customers both internal and external including members of the public and other healthcare professionals
  • Able to communicate highly complex information of a clinical nature
  • Ability to influence senior Pharmacy and hospital staff and other people
  • Good inter-personal skills and ability to build relationships
  • Ability to provide succinct and objective advice

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Has vision and imagination, initiative, creativity, able to see beyond barriers
  • Supportive and motivational Can balance strong leadership and working within a team
  • Ability to command and deal sensitively with emotive situations and be seen as credible by professional colleagues
  • Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work and service
  • Adaptability and flexibility in approach to meet service needs in different working environments
  • Prioritises and meets deadlines
  • Able to be seen as a role model - reliable fair and balanced
  • Flexible
  • Systematic approach
  • Energetic and can enthuse, 'can-do' approach
  • Calm under pressure
  • Ability to plan, set objectives, prioritise, and review performance against objectives
  • Thrives on change
  • Has leadership, innovation, and motivational skills
  • Excellent numeric and verbal skills

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Flexibility in working hours
  • Has advanced keyboard skills

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