🚀 Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Child Health

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Child Health

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Responsibilities

• Provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and challenge poor practice.
• Maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
• Optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews and using patients own medicines.
• Detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the MHRA and via Datix as per Trust Policy.
• Record clinical activity and monitor the outcome of advice.
• Monitor interventions in treatment to identify training and information needs.
• Fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.
• Participate in CQUINs and QIPPs within the acute medical specialities.
• Implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.
• Facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA.
• Undertake validation duties in the dispensary.
• Supervise, check and, if necessary, undertake the supply of medicines.
• Make initial validations and decide professional responsibility to decide on the need for further involvement in the supply process.

Specialty Clinical Pharmacy Role

• Develop expertise in paediatrics and neonatology.
• Obtain and maintain prescribing qualification and support Consultant-led ward rounds and clinics.
• Optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence and support the patients journey throughout the Trust.
• Have a working knowledge of current practice and protocols within the speciality and how these relate to national and other guidance.

Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Service

• Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service, including enquiry answering service for speciality-related queries from other members of the pharmacy team, wards and clinics.
• Lead and support the development and implementation of medicine related guidance, policies and procedures within the speciality area.
• Lead and support on the data collection relating to medicine use within the Child health directorate.
• Identify new opportunities for the development of pharmacy services and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.
• Support the Lead Pharmacist Paediatrics in attending clinical governance meetings for the Child health directorate.

Management & Supervision

• Line manage and lead 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 and identify training and development needs.
• Maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
• Partake/lead in recruitment of junior pharmacists or other pharmacy staff as required.

Education & Training

• Attend clinical pharmacy meetings as appropriate and education/training schemes relevant to post.
• Take part in formal and informal training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
• Be a supervisor on the Clinical Pharmacy Diploma course.
• Supervise aspects of pre-registration training.
• Provide information to patients, parents and carers on admission, discharge and in outpatient clinics regarding treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance, particularly if there is a need to overcome language barriers.
• Maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge and personal CPD by participating in programmes to improve competence.

Other Duties

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

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider

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