Specialist Medicines Information / Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will - - Participate in the provision of the Medicines Information service to healthcare professionals and patients. -Supervise junior staff such as rotational pharmacists, Foundation Year pharmacists and pharmacy students and provide them with advice, guidance and training as needed. -Be responsible, in conjunction with the Senior pharmacist for Medicines Information, Education and Training, for authorising enquiries completed by rotational and foundation pharmacists. -Line management of junior pharmacists (including appraisals, career development interviews and performance management) -Deputise for the Senior pharmacist for Medicines Information, Education and Training in their absence.

• Provide proactive written information about medicines and their administration for other healthcare professionals within the Trust in the form of bulletins etc. - Be responsible, in conjunction with the senior pharmacist for Medicines Information, Education and Training, for writing, maintaining and ensuring adherence to standard operating procedures for Medicines Information. To review, make proposals for and participate in changes in procedures and practices. - Carry out quality assurance work to ensure the service meets nationally agreed UKMi standards.
• Devise, update and provide training and development programmes in Medicines Information for rotational and Foundation Year pharmacists. -Demonstrate excellent communication skills, verbal and written documentation. - Review and write policies and procedures as required. As a member of the wider clinical pharmacy team, the post-holder(s) will be required to provide general pharmacist duties within the department and to other clinical specialities as the service requires.

This would involve provision of a ward clinical pharmacy service. The post holder(s) would be responsible for: - Reviewing prescriptions to ensure they are legal, safe, cost effective, clinically necessary and appropriate, accurate and complete. - Undertaking medicines optimisation and reconciliation. -Arrange for drugs to be supplied to a patient, ward or department.
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