Senior Support Pharmacist

• To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties in Adult Community Services (ACS), including our award winning virtual wards, the rapid intervention team, west park hospital, anticoagulation service and district nursing.
• Deliver pharmaceutical support to dental and sexual health community services, including PGD development and review, medicines audits and clinical pharmacy advice support.
• Provide professional pharmaceutical services, including active participation in Adult Community Services, as well as reviewing prescriptions, dispensing, audits and clinical pharmacy services in all areas of the pharmacy department.
• Supervise and provide professional support to junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.
• Education and training support to the multidisciplinary team across community services and the pharmacy department.
• Undertake postgraduate clinical training where relevant to the post.

To act as an independent prescriber once registered with the GPhC in line with local policy and entered in the trust NMP register.

To provide a clinical pharmacy service, including active participation in MDT virtual ward rounds and patient review, as well as domiciliary medicines management assessment when required.

To partake in the pharmacy dispensary service, including oncall, weekends and bank holiday rotas on a pro rata basis.

To advise medical, nursing and ACP healthcare professionals on drug usage at a financial and directorate level and encourage compliance with the hospital/health economy formulary to ensure safe, rational, and economic prescribing.

To provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines, including medicines management audits, in designated areas across the ACS.

To integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend virtual ward rounds making proactive interventions optimising individual patient's therapy by providing information on drug related issues.

Counsel patients on the correct use of medication and ensure that directions associated with medicines are understood, including the main side-effects as well as any monitoring or escalation requirements.

Once registered with the GPhC, and the Trust, as a Non-Medical Prescriber, prescribe medications to patients to support their clinical management under the care of the virtual ward team.

Resolve medicines related problems associated with individual patients between primary and secondary care.

To support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Attend relevant specialty meetings including governance meetings as appropriate – this will require effective communication of messages to and from such forums and ensuring necessary actions are enacted.

Provide professional/advisory support to other areas of the Pharmacy Department and hospital.

Liaise with other clinical pharmacists to ensure efficient handover of drug related care during transitions between community services and in-patient wards, as well as between community services and primary care.

Provide highly specialist advice to and counsel patients and/or their relatives (who may sometimes be distressed and have language difficulties or other disabilities) on their prescribed medication to promote compliance.

Work across traditional boundaries of secondary/primary care, such as coordinating with GP surgeries and community pharmacies to ensure seamless discharges.

Provide advice to the dispensary on an ad hoc basis on matters not necessarily related to clinical speciality.

Support the clinical governance agenda working with senior medical and nursing colleagues.

Participate in local training initiatives, providing training support to the MDT and pharmacy colleagues.

Please see the attached Job Description to more details.