Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Cheswold Park Hospital

The

role of the post holder will include provision of direct patient care, carrying

out patient consultations and medication counselling, complex medication

reviews, rationalizing and optimizing medicines for mental health conditions as

well as concurrent medicines for those with long term physical health

conditions, prescribing where appropriate and qualified.

There

will also be a role to support other health care professionals in relation to

mental health medicines including responding to queries and education and

training. This role will provide clinical supervision to other members of the

mental health pharmacy team.

Trust

wide pharmacy activities which the role will lead or provide input into may include

Clinical

audit

Quality

improvement projects

Research

and development

Policy

development and review

Develop

training packages

Manage

key performance indicators in the locality

Supporting

good prescribing practice and supporting nursing practice in respect of safe

and secure handling, questioning and challenging where appropriate

Budget

analysis and monitoring

Monitoring

of high risk and high-cost medicines at a service level.

Have responsibility

for a specific trust wide work stream

At

the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK

Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward

to receiving your application.

Provision of Clinical Pharmacy service to allocated teams

Provision of high quality patient focused pharmaceutical care.

Provison of professional responsibilities of a pharmacist supervising the dispensing of prescriptions at Fieldhead Pharmacy whilst fulfilling the dispensary commitment.

Participation in the Saturday, Bank Holiday and On-call Rotas

In conjunction with the pharmacy team, develop and implement safe and effective policies and procedures in line with New Ways of Working

To provide management to allocated staff including appraisal , development and clinical supervision

To be involved in the development of new services as allocted by pharmacy management team

Develop and participate in Trust-wide medicines management audits and attend allocated governenace groups to represent pharmacy.

KEY RESULT AREAS

Performance indicators

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respect at all time. The post holder must at all times act in accordance with the Trusts Values:

We put the person first and in the centre

We know that families and carers matter

We are respectful, honest, open and transparent

We improve and aim to be outstanding

We are relevant today and ready for tomorrow

Safeguarding

Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and Trust Data Protection policy;

comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually;

receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity;

ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participating in relevant training;

We

are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health

and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,

Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are

the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is

to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this

by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ

staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a

difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage

and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value

diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being

a foundation Trust means were accountable to our

members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people

(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join

us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving

the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and

help each year.

We

are committed

to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and

vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this

commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Qualifications

Physical Attributes

Training

Special Knowledge/Skills

Personal Attributes

Experience