Lead and collaborate with other Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to provide a highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within Urgent Care. Ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved in specific circumstances.
Manage, train and support other pharmacists providing specialised clinical pharmacy service within the wider team.
Work directly and regularly with consultants, senior nursing staff and managers within the clinical speciality. Monitors and interpret expenditure on medicines and provide the Urgent care and MMPS CSU with regular reports to assist in the safe use of medicines, the management of the drug budget and clinical governance issues. The report also includes risk management such as the recording of significant clinical interventions and near misses.
Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines for use of drugs within the clinical area.
Participate in sessions of service cover in the dispensary or aseptic dispensary as per the team rota. Participates in evening, weekend and bank holiday rota.
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