This Clinical Pharmacist post sits in the pharmacy team at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, covering The Orchards Mental Health Unit and OPMH wards in Gosport. The core work is medicines reconciliation, prescribing advice to medical teams, discharge planning and clinical audit. At 30 hours a week, it includes rotation into learning disabilities, CAMHS and end of life. Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council is required.
What the job involves
- Medicines reconciliation and discharge planning
- Prescribing advice to medical teams and medicines management for MDTs, patients and carers at ward and clinic level
- Clinical pharmacy support at The Orchards and OPMH inpatient wards in Gosport
- Clinical cover for OPMH and community rehabilitation wards alongside the East Region pharmacy team
- Enhancing patient safety and minimising medicines-related harm
- Facilitating medicines optimisation in partnership with patients, carers and healthcare professionals
- Monitoring drug usage and promoting cost-effective prescribing
- Clinical audit and quality improvement to identify gaps and problem areas in the service
- Delivering an efficient, high-quality, professional and well-coordinated clinical pharmacy service
- Teaching
- Providing clinical pharmacy advice and pharmaceutical services to the East Region
- Gaining experience in other specialities such as learning disabilities, CAMHS, forensic services and end of life
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters degree in pharmacy plus pre-registration or foundation year training
Registration & licences
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
- Post-registration experience working as a pharmacist
- Experience of delivering training and education
- Experience of working in a constantly changing environment
Skills & knowledge
- Communicating medicines information clearly to patients, carers and clinical staff, including medical, nursing and pharmacy colleagues
- Identifying, prioritising and managing risks and work
- Coping with stress, assertiveness and flexibility in difficult situations
- Customer-focused and responsive approach
- Up-to-date knowledge of evidence-based medicine and medicines information
- Knowledge of prescribing, drug costs and the local health economy
Nice to have
- Postgraduate diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy practice, or equivalent experience or willingness to work towards it
- Independent prescriber qualification
- Post-registration experience in community and/or mental health services
- Ward-based clinical pharmacy experience, including with older persons
- Experience monitoring and advising on drug expenditure
- Clinical audit experience
- Teaching and presentation skills, plus clinical and critical appraisal skills
- Writing procedures, clinical guidelines and policies or protocols
What’s offered
- Flexible working requests can be discussed as part of the interview process
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
