Specialist Pharmacist- Rotational

Rotations are undertaken on a six-month basis.

Please note: Applicants will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. If you do not yet meet all of the requirements for this Band 7 role, we would encourage you to consider applying for our Band 6 Pharmacist Development Role, which provides a structured development pathway with the opportunity to progress to Band 7 upon successful completion of the required competencies.

To apply for the development role, please search for vacancy reference C9365-26-0598 or use the link provided within the Supporting Links section of this advertisement.

See attached documents for full Band 7 JD

Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.

If not already qualified, undertake an independent prescriber qualification within an agreed specialty as agreed with clinicians and funding, complying with all requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independent prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.

Identify medicine-related causes for admission and develop treatment plans to optimise care, deprescribing where appropriate.

Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to allocated wards and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.

Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the rotational areas as assigned.

Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials comply with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research on pharmaceutical aspects of medicines use.

Provide pharmaceutical teaching to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff.

Introduce measures to ensure drug expenditure is within agreed limits as requested by the Director and Deputy Director of Pharmacy. This will include monitoring the use and funding of new medicines for the Medicines Prescribing Sub-Committee (MPC)

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large

acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute

services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a

larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from

three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our

caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred

care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to

work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our

everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise

accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working

within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a

DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check

(at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting

Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

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