Highly Specialist Pharmacist Women's and Children's Division in Preston

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the pharmacy team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals as a Highly Specialist Pharmacist for the Women's and Children's Division. This post presents a unique opportunity to work closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide excellent patient centred care. This post will provide the chance for a dynamic individual to utilise their clinical experience and prescribing, whilst building on their leadership and service development skills.

This is an exciting time for clinical services in the pharmacy department, as we implement enhanced roles in the established patient-facing clinical pharmacy team. Our highly specialist pharmacists have dedicated SPA time (Supported Professional Activities) in education and training, workforce development, research and audit, governance and finance, which provides valuable experience and the opportunity to develop leadership skills. The use of pharmacist non-medical prescribers is well-established in the department and seen as instrumental in achieving our key performance indicators, so the successful candidate will hold their independent prescribing qualification.

The pharmacy department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust is an innovative and welcoming place to work, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement. We also recognise the importance of the health and wellbeing of our workforce, and we are fully committed to providing flexible working opportunities within our team.

Main duties of the job:

• You will provide prescribing and clinical pharmacy services to the women and children's division, leading the pharmacy team across the specialties to ensure effective service delivery.
• You will work alongside an established team of consultants, specialist nurses and another prescribing pharmacist.
• You will also have the opportunity to use your clinical expertise within the division and work within the multidisciplinary team to steer safe and effective prescribing and medicines management agenda.
• You will ensure key performance indicators are achieved and work with the directorate and governance teams to review and manage themes in the safe management of medicines.
• You will be integral to the delivery of clinical pharmacy services to our patients, forging relationships within the multidisciplinary team.
• You will support the delivery of training and education both within, and outside of the pharmacy department.
• You will be a strong leader and have the ability to motivate, develop and manage others in a positive and supportive working environment within a team that believes this is a great place to work.

The pharmacy department at Lancashire teaching hospital employs over 200 staff. A licensed manufacturing unit, stores and distribution with wholesale dealer's license, growing clinical trials activity and a proactive medicines management team supporting medical education make it an exciting and diverse department. The clinical pharmacy team provide the service to the wards including tertiary specialties: renal medicine, oncology, plastics, vascular, major trauma, neurology and neurosurgery. Electronic prescribing is live in over 90% of the hospital. Outpatient services are delivered by a wholly independent subsidiary.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Undertake all independent prescribing duties in line with the Trust Non-Medical Prescribing Policy.
• Work within the renal transplant service to prescribe and monitor immunosuppressive medications for patients following renal transplantation, through multidisciplinary clinic attendance and weekly multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Work closely with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff to identify patients who are planned for discharge and generate the medication aspect of the discharge prescription to support timely discharge.
• Work with the Pharmacist Team to develop Key Performance Indicators relating to the Pharmacist independent prescribing of discharges and clinical verification of medicines, and devise and implement a system to monitor and improve performance.
• Work closely with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff to identify new patient admissions and ensure the safe and timely generation of an in-patient prescription that accurately reflects the medicines the patients were taking prior to admission, accounting for current clinical needs and reasons for admission (including ADRs).
• Work with the Prescribing Pharmacist Team to identify opportunities to expand the role of the independent prescribing pharmacist to enhance the patient experience and develop business cases to support this.
• Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to a designated group of wards and specialty in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies.
• Provide advanced level pharmaceutical information to staff and patients in the Trust.
• Monitor monthly drug expenditure in a clinical directorate, identify and implement actions to support adherence to budget.
• Investigate medicines related incident reports or complaints in the named speciality and input in to Root Cause Analysis investigations, identifying and implementing measures to minimise future risk.

Person specification:

Qualifications and Education:

• MPharm or equivalent.
• Registration with the GPhC.
• MRPharmS.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Substantial post registration hospital experience with experience in a senior clinical pharmacist role.
• Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a broad range of specialities.
• Evidence of significant, relevant and on-going CPD.
• Experience of training others.
• Experience of audit and research.
• Acute Trust/tertiary referral centre experience.
• Experience of project management.
• Formulary management.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.