Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner: Acute
3 months ago
Job summary
Are you a qualified Pharmacist looking to train as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (MSc)? Or maybe you are an already qualified ACP and are looking to work in Acute & Emergency Medicine? If so, we are looking to expand our team and would love to hear from you.
The job provides a hybrid Clinical Pharmacy Practitioner 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 a friendly, experienced and clinically sophisticated team consisting of pharmacists, ACPs and consultant physicians to offer all the support you may need. 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.
Main duties of the job
As a hybrid Pharmacist-ACP, your working week is shared between your role of a pharmacist, identifying medicine-related and other issues for attendance/admission within the urgent care foot print.
The role of the ACP incorporates all of your specialist pharmacist knowledge, with the additional learning of diagnostics, examination and complex clinical decision making, that the MSc ACP course offers.
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.) and implementing management plans.
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.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. 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
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
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. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
Best services for local people Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients Best use of resources Best peopleBetter 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Workindependently or within the MDT, being responsible for delivering AdvancedClinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacist roles to the EmergencyDepartment and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. This will include assessing patients, identifyingmedicine-related causes for attendance & admission and developing treatment plansto optimise care
Functionas an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complying with allrequirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independentprescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.
Makecritical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate these to patients and other staffmembers accordingly.
Providea specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patientsand undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards within theAcute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.
Usehis or her specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants, medical,nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for AcuteMedical patients.
Deliverpharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and EmergencyDepartment; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic optionsfor patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensureevidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
Undertakerisk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and theAcute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, theTrust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.
Undertakeclinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the Acute MedicalDirectorate and Emergency Department WRH.
Ensurepharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute medicine complywith relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research onpharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.
Contributeto keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments drugexpenditure within agreed budgets.
See full job description for further information.
Improving Diversity andInclusive Recruitment:
As part of the Trust's aim toimprove diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and allapplications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can requestto be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet theminimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.
Applicants will be promptedin the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under thisexpanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible tothe Shortlisting Panel.
If you have any queries aboutexpanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager -Recruitment) in confidence via email
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
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 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. Accredited independent prescriber.
Desirable
Have undertaken a Health Assessment course Working towards RPS Faculty membership Holds or working towards formal teaching/ training on providing feedback Holds or working towards a leadership or management qualification Mary Seacole programme.
Experience
Essential
Current experience in delivering specialist clinical services to the relevant speciality or directorate. Practicing prescriber Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients Working autonomously or as part of an MDT, making prescribing decisions related to medications based on evaluation of evidence and risk/ benefit to a patient/ patient cohort. Extensive experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of healthcare professionals. Experience of preparing and delivering reports, audits, clinical guidelines at directorate/ divisional level Experience in developing and implementing quality improvement
Desirable
Experience in running pharmacist led clinic/ outpatient services. Maintaining competency in advanced clinical practice
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
Essential
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. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.-
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