Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Neighbourhoods and Community services

The Community and Mental Health Medicines Management Team is looking to expand and recruit a highly skilled, experienced, resilient and proactive Advanced Clinical Pharmacist.

The successful post holder will:

• Provide clinical leadership and support to Neighborhoods and Community services across the Somerset
• Assist the Lead Pharmacists in the management and strategic development of patient-centred clinical pharmacy services;
• Provide high quality clinical pharmacy services

This is a real opportunity for the successful candidate to develop pharmacy skills and undertake relevant training as well as working with a wide range of patient groups and other healthcare professionals.

This role has no dispensary commitment, no requirement for on call, bank holiday or weekend working. However, provision of advice out of hours may become part of the role in future.

We are flexible and are committed to facilitating a good work/life balance for our team. The team provides services across Somerset; the base for this post will be agreed with the successful candidate. Cross-site and domiciliary working will be required, so it is essential that the post holder is a car driver with access to their own transport.

You will need to be self-motivated, with excellent clinical and communication skills, and a desire to use your abilities to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.

• Deliver patient centred care in Neighbourhoods and Community services to designated clinical and domiciliary areas, including (but not exclusively) to NHS Hospital at Home (H@H), Community Rehabilitation Service (CRS), Discharge to Assess (D2A), Rapid Response (RR), District Nursing (DN) and Urgent Care Response (UCR) workstreams.
• Provide clinical supervision and support for the CRS Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Neighbourhoods and Community Services Senior Pharmacy Technicians.
• Provide high quality clinical pharmacy advice and guidance to Neighbourhoods and Community services for patients, carers and other healthcare professionals both within and outside the Trust.
• Make sound clinical judgements when full information is not always available
• Manage varying levels of risk, when there is complex, competing or ambiguous information or uncertainty
• Assist the Lead Pharmacists to develop and deliver the medicines governance agenda for the Trust.
• Develop as a non-medical prescriber (NMP) within a specialty and assist with the development of the role of NMP pharmacists.
• To work at the level of Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) or, work towards achieving ACP status to fulfil responsibilities concordant with the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research.
• Act as mentor for Foundation Year Trainee pharmacists and MSc/Diploma pharmacists.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone’s throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.

There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan – there is truly something for everyone!

Communication

• Work in partnership with individuals, families and carers, using a range of assessment methods as appropriate
• Supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes, using Health Education England’s framework to promote person-centred approaches in health and care

Planning and Organisation

• Support planning organisation, and delivery of patient-centred care in Community Health services to designated teams and wards.
• Support and participate in the development of strategies for patients / carers to help inform and improve patient concordance with medication regimen thus, maximising benefit derived from their medicines

Analytics

• To assist in the review of clinical incidents focusing specifically on medicines related incidents and advising on pharmaceutical risk management strategies.
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated diagnoses and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.

Responsibility for Patient care

• Lead and provide clinical pharmacy service for Neighbourhoods and Community services to identified wards or in pharmacy-led clinics
• Provide pharmaceutical support to multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate, contributing to patient care

Policy, service, research & development responsibility

• Develop and maintain relationships with other healthcare professionals in order to facilitate clinical pharmacy service developments.
• Provide and support the development of community health knowledge and skills for the Medicines Management Team, preparing appropriate training resources and events.

Responsibility for Supervision, leadership & management

• Demonstrate expertise and professional judgement in clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research.
• Line management responsibility for designated medicines management team members.