Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Clinical Services

• Provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice.
• Clinically validate and prescribe (if qualified, competent and registered on the Trust Non-Medical Prescribers register) medicines to ensure patients are safely treated and have access to medicines in hospital and for discharge in a timely manner.
• Maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
• Fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.
• Optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews, using patients' own medicines, counselling and ensuring continuity of care on discharge.
• Detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy.
• Monitor pharmacy interventions and Datix reports to identify training and information needs.
• Identify and implement service improvements.
• Lead and support on the auditing of medicines and prescribing.
• Implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.
• Facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA.
• Support the development and implementations of medicine-related guidance, policies and procedures within medicine and urgent care.
• Support the process for new medicines being integrated into the Trust by Formulary submissions.
• Undertake validation duties in the dispensary.
• Supervise, check and, if necessary, undertake the supply of medicines.

Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Role

• Lead and develop practice and protocols and how these relate to national and other guidance.
• Optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence (where appropriately qualified and authorised via the Trust NMP register).
• Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to the specialist area.
• Deputise for the Principal Pharmacist, Medicine and Urgent Care and support other Advanced Pharmacists within this division.
• Provide advice and guidance for other pharmacists or other healthcare professionals.
• Demonstrate an understanding of relevant pharmacy services priorities and contribute to the implementation of these priorities.
• Develop and submit relevant business cases.
• Undertake and support in project work.
• Liaise with High Cost Pharmacy team in relation to biologics and the provision of the service.
• Work across organisational boundaries (primary, secondary, community) to improve integration and reduce variation.
• Lead the development and redesign of services and clinical pathways in collaboration with stakeholders, using data, evaluation, feedback, and workforce insight to inform decisions.

Education, Training and Supervision

• Act as a role model to the pharmacy team, including supporting junior pharmacists to achieve their objectives.
• Attend clinical pharmacy meetings and education/training schemes relevant to post.
• Participate in formal and informal education of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
• Be a Designated Supervisor and/or Designated Prescribing Practitioner for pharmacists undertaking their prescribing course and supervise aspects of foundation year trainee pharmacists training.
• Be a supervisor on the Clinical Pharmacy Diploma course.
• Line manage and lead those staff allocated, undertaking appraisals, supervision and identification of training and development of their skills and knowledge.
• Assist in the induction of staff into the service; help identify training and development needs.
• Provide information to patients, parents, and carers on admission and at discharge regarding treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance.
• Maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice.
• Take responsibility for own personal CPD by participating in education and training programmes.
• Obtain/maintain prescribing qualification and support services and ward rounds as appropriate.
• Help provide training for Technicians enhanced patient counselling skills and Medicines Management Technician training.
• Design, deliver and evaluate education for multi-professional teams.
• Disseminate findings from audit and quality improvement projects at a local level.
• Promote a culture of learning by sharing insights from incidents, best practices, prescribing trends.

Financial

• Be responsible for the co-ordinated advice to the Directorate to effectively manage expenditure on medicines.
• Horizon scan for new medicines likely to be excluded from the tariff and advise on clinical and budgetary impact.
• Produce appropriate reports documenting the use and expenditure of medicines.
• Identify and manage medicine/pharmacy Quality/Innovation/Productivity/Prevention (QIPP) Schemes.
• Be an authorised signatory for Pharmacy to commit expenditure via the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions.
• Provide expert professional advice on high cost and excluded medicines to clinicians, managers, finance and commissioners.

Audit and Research

• Monitor the use of FP10(HNCs) by the Directorate.
• Develop, undertake and initiate clinical audit and practice research.
• Guide and support others undertaking research audit and service improvements.
• Record, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical interventions.
• Analyse and undertake root cause analysis of medication incidents.

Other Duties

• Undertake duties elsewhere in the locality, if required.
• Undertake on-call duties.
• Provide a pharmacy service at weekends.