To develop and provide a high-quality Clinical Pharmacy Service to ECCH Primary Care Home Teams, including medicines reviews, polypharmacy, medicines reconciliation and drug monitoring to ensure safe and cost-effective use of evidence-based medicine in line with local policies and national guidance. To support the provision of clinical pharmacy services to the community hospital ward and specialist palliative care beds. Participate in ward rounds and MDTs where appropriate. To provide professional expertise in relation to drugs or medicines to PCH staff; patients and carers and others including medical practitioners.
To support and implement efficient medicines optimisation initiatives to ensure the safe and secure handling of medicines; reduce drug waste and manage drug expenditure. To prescribe within sphere of competence and where appropriate the necessary medicines to meet the needs of the patient. To participate in MDTs and PCH huddles where appropriate. To work closely with the pharmacy technicians to enable patients in our care to be empowered to manage their medicines.
To facilitate the medicines element of discharge in a safe and effective manner. To participate in and undertake audits as agreed including collecting and recording data for KPIs. To support the wider pharmacy and ECCH teams in delivering safe patient centred care through implementation of the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation strategy including providing professional advice; training and education; developing and reviewing relevant policies and SOPs. To line manage pharmacy support staff where required All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues.
All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role. Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone. Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture.
Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together

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