This is an exciting new job, created to support a new Neurology Speciality ward at the Queens Medical Centre.
We are looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist with a passion for neurology to work with the doctors, nurses and wider MDT on the neurology ward to deliver excellent care to our patients.
The post holder will have a key role in supporting the change in speciality for the ward area, ensuring safe prescribing, administration and medicines management on the ward.
The post holder will be supported by the Specialist Pharmacist for Neurology and the Specialist Pharmacist for Neurosciences, along with the wider Neurology and Pharmacy teams.
The post holder will primarily provide a clinical pharmacy ward service to the Neurology ward at Queens Medical Centre.
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the Neurology ward.
To work alongside the multidisciplinary team delivering excellent patient care through medicines optimisation. If a qualified prescriber, the post holder will also utilise their prescribing skills to do this.
To facilitate with timely discharges by clinically screening discharge prescriptions/TTOs.
To assist the Specialist Clinical Pharmacists with specialty level support roles such as governance, teaching and guidelines.
To support, mentor & line manage junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians and students.
To be actively involved in quality improvement projects.
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Please refer to the job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake .
To provide a clinical Pharmacy Service to the Neurology ward at Queens Medical Centre.
To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patient’s own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care on leaving hospital.
To ensure patients receive the best pharmaceutical care throughout their stay.
To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified.
To make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.
To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the medical team specialties.
To facilitate or conduct clinical audits and quality improvement projects.
To support the Specialist Pharmacists for Neurology and Neurosciences with ensuring good medicines management and governance within the Neurology speciality.
Screening of Neurology Homecare Prescriptions.
To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties.
We operate a 7day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on-call rota providing back-up support to the on-call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist-free and technician led, so there are no operational commitments.
