Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Critical care

• Deliver specialist pharmaceutical input during consultant-led ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Ensure safe, effective medicines optimisation for critically ill patients, including advanced clinical reviews and prescribing.
• Work as part of the Critical Care pharmacy team to ensure a responsive, high-quality service.
• Support, develop, and mentor pharmacists and MMTs within the specialty.
• Provide pharmacy input into both elective and emergency critical care admissions.
• Contribute to medicines-related risk reduction, incident investigation, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintain and support adherence to critical care guidelines, protocols, and best practice standards.
• Monitor medicines expenditure and contribute to financial efficiency plans.
• Deliver specialist training for pharmacy, medical, nursing, and MDT colleagues.
• Support the development of trainees within the pharmacy workforce.
• Contribute to research, audit, and evidence generation within critical care pharmacy practice.

• Contribute and assist in the development of the Critical Care Pharmacy Service to achieve a high standard of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for the provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical service to the Critical Care areas
• Advise on strategies to ensure cost-effective use of resources
• Provide pharmaceutical expertise to any multidisciplinary working groups considering protocols, policies and guidelines in the specialist area.
• Produces protocols, policies and guidelines on designated pharmaceutical practice relating to the Critical Care Service.
• Deals with high level pharmaceutical queries and provides advice to medical and nursing staff from the Critical care areas including senior medical staff.
• Provides regular reports for the Directorate on drug expenditure including exception reporting and other agreed performance indicators relating to critical care.
• Undertake audit annually and risk manage selected areas of practice to promote continuous quality improvement
• Attend and contribute to directorate meetings
• Assist in evaluating and appraising evidence for new medicines to be used in a critical care setting for the medicines management group, looking at clinical and financial implications for the hospital trust.
• Responsible for developing and enforcing guidelines for the use of unlicensed medicines used within critical care
• Attend regional critical care meetings to decide on regional policies and keep up to date on latest developments
• Responsible for calculation of nutritional, fluid and electrolyte requirements and appropriate, safe and stable formulation of parenteral nutrition regimens, to be compounded aseptically, for intravenous administration to inpatients and outpatients of the trust when required to do so.
• Supervise rotational grade pharmacist during the critical care rotation assessing abilities as a clinical pharmacist. Input into time management, organising ward rounds, visits to observe medical procedures, specialist teaching.

Essential

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered with the GPHC
• Post graduate clinical qualification

Desirable

• Non- Medical prescribing Qualification
• Management qualification
• MSc

Essential

• Demonstrable post registration hospital experience
• Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a broad range of specialities
• Effective working within a multidisciplinary clinical team
• Evidence of significant, relevant and on-going personal CPD

Desirable

• Acute Teaching Trust/Tertiary Referral Centre experience
• Leading medicine-related protocol development
• Leading and supervising audit or practice research projects

Essential

• Advanced generalist knowledge of the clinical areas within the Medical and Surgical Division.
• Knowledge of the law relating to pharmacy and medicines
• Expert knowledge of the therapeutics and medicines within critical care

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good computer skills including effective use of office applications including analytical software
• Logical thought processes
• Appreciation of pharmaco-economics
• Ability to critique and present complex or contentious clinical information in an impartial and balanced manner
• Ability to effectively prioritise workload and work under pressure
• Good organisational skills including ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team in a changing environment
• Ability to manage change using appropriate negotiating skills when faced with barriers to change

Desirable

• Experience of working across the primary/secondary care interface
• Experience of preparing shared care protocols
• Experience of preparing patient group directions (PGDs)

Essential

• Diplomatic, appropriately assertive
• Innovative thinking
• Committed and with integrity