Antimicrobial Specialist Pharmacist - band 7

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Combining a desire to interdict inappropriate antibiotic prescribing with a strong educational drive, you will be assigned a suitable regular ward to cover but your primary hospital function will be to provide specialist antibiotic input to Frimley Park Hospital personnel and patients and assist with the business of providing safe, effective, and timely patient care.
Primarily based at Frimley Park Hospital there will also be a strong audit and surveillance element to this role and a willingness to exploit technology to the full.
An enthusiastic, empathetic friendly and forward-thinking team player who thrives on challenges will find a niche in this Pharmacy.
The hospital hours of working are 09:00 to 17.15 Monday to Friday and there will be a requirement for participation in weekend and evening working rotas.
To assist in further development and implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (alongside senior colleagues) across Frimley Health, enabling the Trust to monitor and modify antimicrobial prescribing and use best practices to facilitate a culture of safe and prudent prescribing.
To continue the development, delivery, and update of integrated antimicrobial guidelines and policies across Frimley Health
To work closely with the microbiology/ID consultants and antimicrobial pharmacists to develop and improve on existing audit tools to monitor antimicrobial prescribing across Frimley Health and to help exploit the capacity within EPIC to help deliver this
To work closely with colleagues to develop training on antimicrobial stewardship prescribing and help deliver this across the Trust.
To act as a role model for antimicrobial stewardship and clinical pharmacy practice in order to promote a consistently high standard of antimicrobial stewardship and pharmacy clinical services in line with the Pharmacy and Trust objectives.
To act as a reserve resource to the senior antimicrobial pharmacists from both hospitals when that need might arise.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
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
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