Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency department in Nottingham

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff. The Pharmacy department has an exciting opportunity within our Emergency and Acute Care directorate for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist to join our Emergency Department team. Our ED is one of the busiest and most dynamic in the UK, acting as a major trauma centre for the East Midlands. Our ED believes in the value of having strong Pharmacy support to deliver an expert patient-facing clinical pharmacy service and support embedding medicines optimisation within the MDT.

This post will involve working alongside our established specialist ED clinical pharmacists, MMTs and MMA. It will include actively reviewing patients coming into the hospital and have a strong prescribing role. We believe this is a key role for a motivated pharmacist who wants to use their skills to develop the service we provide at the hospital front door. You will be able to define and deliver optimal patient care with the support of the Pharmacy and wider progressive and dynamic MDT. You will be expected to act as a role model and mentor for junior pharmacists and technicians. You will work alongside clinicians, specialist nurses and ACPs to manage this exciting and quickly changing area. Our vision is to be outstanding in health outcomes and patient & staff experience.

Main duties of the job:

• To lead and develop the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department alongside the other Specialist Clinical Pharmacists.
• To provide clinical input (at specialist level) to the Emergency Department.
• To work alongside the medical team and Advanced Clinical Practitioner team in prescribing for people being cared for in the Emergency Department.
• Provide highly complex advice and guidance requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of options on all issues relating to prescribing and therapeutics in the relevant specialty, where possible in line with national and local guidelines.
• Maintain a working knowledge relating to prescribing and therapeutics for all services in the Medicine care group.
• To form a key component of the multidisciplinary team in the Emergency Department.

With over 20,000 colleagues, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation. Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career! We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

As a pharmacy department, we are forward thinking & constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care. We have a strong belief in leading our teams compassionately & fostering a supportive & caring workplace.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Providing an advanced level of clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department.
• Support the Directorate Lead Pharmacist for Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) to deliver the ‘best possible clinical pharmacy service’.
• To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians in the EAC Directorate.
• Participate in back-up senior on-call rota supporting junior pharmacists.
• Involvement in education and training of a variety of healthcare professionals including diploma & pre-registration pharmacists, undergraduates and trainee advanced nurse practitioners.
• Whilst this post is commissioned to be full time (equivalent of 37.5 hours per week) we would welcome applications from those wanting a better work life balance.
• The pharmacy department operates a 7 day shifted working model which will include weekends and Bank Holidays.
• The post will be based at the Queens Medical Centre.

Person specification:

• Registered with GPhC.
• Post-graduate diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or working towards this or equivalent experience.
• B.Pharm/BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm.
• Play an active role in a relevant national network / specialist pharmacist group.

Experience:

• Broad knowledge base of clinical areas.
• Experience of day to day supervision and assisting in training of trainee pharmacists and/or technicians.
• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting.
• Wide previous experience (post registration) of clinical pharmacy.
• Experience in undertaking, supervising and reporting/presenting audit/research work at local (Trust) level.
• Evidence of research or project work.

Communication & relationships:

• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams.
• Good communication skills with MDT members and own profession.
• Able to defend opinions in a constructive manner when challenged.
• Teaching skills.

Analytical and Judgement skill:

• Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management.
• Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication process.
• Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information.
• Experience of analysing expenditure.

Planning and organisation skills:

• Able to prioritise own work, problem solver.

Management Skills:

• Employer certification / accreditation badges.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.