The Medicines Optimisation team at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are looking to expand patient facing roles within the organisation. Our team are ward based and you will be involved in the implementation of our medicines optimisation strategy while working closely with the wards and our Pharmacy provider.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to take up a post based on our existing specialist inpatient wards.
Working with the existing Senior Pharmacists, sharing lead responsibilities for managing and delivering key elements of the medicines optimisation strategy across the Trust.
Responsibilities include providing assurance that NCH&C is compliant with all legal, regulatory and governance frameworks, including those of the Care Quality Commission. Supporting the Accountable Officer to ensure that controlled drugs are managed appropriately. You will be responsible for the development and implementation of relevant strategies, policies and patient group directions as well as the participation in regular audits.
You will also be responsible for providing a clinical Pharmacy service to inpatient areas, following our clinical pharmacy standards, ensuring effective medicines optimisation through a patient centred approach.
This post is ideal for an individual who is motivated by collaborative working, medicines safety, antimicrobial stewardship and wants to make a positive impact on patient care.
Undertake medicines reconciliation when patients transfer between care settings ensuring their medicines reflect what is intended
Clinical medication review for patients to optimise their medication
Provide education, advice and support on medicines to patients and their carers to maximise patient’s independence.
Provide drug/medical information and advice as appropriate
Provide education and training to colleagues to promote best practice
Communicate complex drug/medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients, relatives: patients may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, other professionals may challenge advice
Work as part of the Medicines Optimisation team to implement the Medicines Optimisation strategy
Responsible and accountable for autonomously leading and delivering specialist areas of work within the Medicines Optimisation Team
Provide expert decisions and advice on pharmaceutical matters
Lead and develop quality improvement programmes and clinical audit
Routinely manage complex situations, undertaking complex intervention and assimilation of information
Analyse information to provide advice on medicines, dosages, in areas where information is lacking and medical or other opinion differs
Support the development and implementation of medicines audits including data analysis, report writing and co-ordination of associated training requirements
Ensure medication incidents are reported in accordance with organisational policy
Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust provides community-based NHS health and care via more than 70 locations across Norfolk, as well as providing a specialist Early Supported Discharge service to stroke patients in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Serving a population of nearly 900,000, NCH&C delivers services for children, young people and families, therapies, community nursing, end of life care and specialist nursing, among others. We believe that people are better looked after locally and this belief drives us to work hard to bring expert care to patients in our seven community hospitals, within GP surgeries and in patients’ own homes.
NCH&C is proud to be the first standalone NHS community trust in the UK to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Care Quality Commission. Our focus is on continually improving the quality of care we offer to local people and on improving access to that care, helping people to move seamlessly from one service to another. Praising NCH&C’s “compassionate, inclusive and effective leadership at all levels”, the CQC observed that our staff are well supported to make positive changes and innovations.
We welcome applications from people who share our values and can help us deliver outstanding care in our local community.
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