Senior Clinical Pharmacist Safety, Effectiveness and Governance

• Lead and deliver on medicines safety, effectiveness and governance.
• Chair the SCFT wide Patient Group Direction (PGD) group.
• Lead and deliver on a specialist clinical pharmacy service to adult bedded units with regular commitments to wards and / or services within allocated area in SCFT.
• Provide and develop a specialist clinical pharmacy service in order to improve the quality of patient care and to promote evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing and use of medicines. Identify risks related to medicines and manage these to ensure patient safety and improve patient experience.
• Lead on medicine management project(s) across SCFT.
• Provide training and education to clinical and healthcare staff.
• Play a key role liaising with a range of colleagues in the Medicines Management Team and other members of staff, notably Prescribers, Nursing, Finance, Human Resources, Estates, Facilities, Transport and Health and Safety.
• Participate in the ICU clinical pharmacy rota and any on-call duties (when implemented).
• The post is allocated a base but will be expected to travel across to other bedded units and service areas in SCFT when required.
• The post holder will be expected to work flexibly in line with hours of operation.

• We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Essential

• Masters degree MPharm
• Registered pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined) professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) UK.
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Essential

• At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience
• Providing clinical pharmacy services within an acute setting or similar setting with direct patient contact.
• Clinical audits. Full audit cycle. Plan, organise the collection of data, analyse data, findings, recommendations and audit report writing. Follow-ups
• Experience of writing policies, procedures and protocols
• Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Experience implementing national guidance and strategy relating to medicines
• Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of implementing clinical governance and continuous improvement.
• Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
• Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety
• Familiarity with the concepts of evidence based medicines.
• Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
• Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines

Desirable

• Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist.
• Working with a community health services setting
• Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
• Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
• Antimicrobial Stewardship knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services
• Developing and writing patient group directions (PGDs)
• Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these

Essential

• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data to assess risks and improve patient safety
• Critical appraisal skills
• Ability to communicate effectively and develop effective working relationships at all levels
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Ability to challenge
• Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
• Ability to prioritise and manage own work and deliver within identified timelines.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
• The ability to research and analyse complex information, judging the input required to arrive at robust and accurate conclusions and using these conclusions to inform decision-making
• Computer skills including spreadsheets, presentations, or ECDL
• Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
• Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
• Ability to write reports, SOP and other documents