Antimicrobial Specialist Pharmacist - band 7

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

To assist with the continued development and implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship across Frimley Health NHSFT in line with National recommendations in Start Smart then Focus and NICE guideline NG51 and any future guidance produced. To help with successful implementation of the UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2019 to 2024 and NHS England Antibiotic quality premium monitoring dashboard To assist senior colleagues with the review of existing clinical policies and guidelines across both former organisations in order to deliver a unified antimicrobial policy and guidelines across Frimley Health NHSFT. To help improve on established audit and QI tools to monitor antimicrobial stewardship across Frimley Health NHSFT and benchmark against other organisations. To help ensure that antimicrobial prescribing is within formulary and Trust specifications and to help optimise cost effectiveness.
To act as an editor for Microguide and assist with any improvement programs planned for that platform. To utilise the reporting functions within EPIC to help gather information which will assist in change management and the promotion of a safe and optimised antimicrobial culture. To undertake both virtual (utilising EPIC reporting functionality) and where possible physical antimicrobial stewardship ward rounds (and within the limitations of team and/or other restrictions) in order to educate and advise on prescribing issues regarding individual patients. To work closely with the established antimicrobial stewardship teams in the development of training tools on antimicrobial prescribing to be used across the trust, using multiple delivery platforms including e-learning and seminars.
To help implement specifically the national Antimicrobial intravenous-to-oral switch: criteria for early switch - GOV.UK. To assist specifically in helping colleagues run a planned beta-lactam de-labelling program. To act as occasional secretary to the Antimicrobial Stewardship Group (ASG) when re-established and when required, represent pharmacy at other committees such as Hospital infection Control Committee (HICC) and KSS AMS group. When required to work collaboratively with the EPR EPIC development team to: Re-develop or modernise order sets for condition specific antimicrobial polices Develop and validate decision support and dosing tools for antimicrobials To provide specialist advice to prescribers on the appropriate selection and review of antimicrobials to achieve prudent use.
To act as an audit and educational facilitator for junior pharmacy staff. To help develop antimicrobial use reporting for all levels of the organization drawing on resources such as EPIC and Define and future systems, collating use against demographics and other parameters available from the data warehouse. To help deliver the antimicrobial related CQUINs for 2022/23 https://www.england.nhs.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2022/01/B1477-i-cquin-22-23-march-2022.pdf, primarily: CCG2: Appropriate antibiotic prescribing for UTI in adults aged 16+ CCG5: Treatment of community acquired pneumonia in line with BTS care bundle For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description

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