Clinical Pharmacist inGuernsey inGuernsey PUBLISHED FRI 14 FEB 2025

The States of Guernsey are seeking to appoint a Clinical Pharmacist (Band 7) to join the team at Hospital Services.

This position delivers clinical pharmacy services to a variety of specialist clinical areas. The post holder provides pharmaceutical expert advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team and provides Dispensary based Clinical Pharmacy service. The post holder will be expected to undertake reconciliation of medicines on admission and discharge and maintain an accurate computerised information and stock control system. They will ensure that legal requirements and policies of the Pharmacy Service and the Trust are followed.

• To be responsible for the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to Medical, Psychiatry, Surgical and Health Care of the Elderly Wards in line with local and national Clinical Pharmacy Standards.
• To Report and Investigate Clinical Incidents involving medications both within the Pharmacy dept. and throughout HSC, ensuring processes are in place to develop learning from these incidents.
• To lead on the participation in the NHS Benchmarking project, Medication Safety Thermometer and local KPI provision and monitoring.
• To be responsible for the production, implementation and updating of protocols, guidelines, policies, relating to Medicines Safety.
• Aid in the provision of evaluated drug expenditure data.
• To facilitate the undertaking and contribute to multi-disciplinary audit.

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Management:

To participate in meetings and working groups relating to Medication Safety and Clinical Audit working closely with the HSC Clinical Governance Team, Medication Safety Link Nurses and Medication Safety Thermometer Team to ensure that policies relating to medicines and clinical services are in line with local and national directives.

To provide advice to medical staff on medicines usage and expenditure.

Leadership:

To provide professional leadership to the Medicines Management team.

Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, and difficult conversations with patients, clinicians and other staff and make decisions with limited information.

Service Development:

Develop and monitor services to support an improved discharge service for patients, and carers ensuring a more effective transition from Secondary to Primary Care.

Initiate, plan, develop and implement clinical guidelines related to medicines use within HSC.

Education and Development:

To provide training to the Medicines Management Team in the form of Clinical CPD Meetings.

The post holder will be committed to the concepts of continuing professional development and lifelong learning personally and for staff.

Contributing to the induction and competency based training of Clinical pharmacy, Medicines Management Technicians and medical and nursing staff.

Clinical / Technical:

To Participate in clinician ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings

To provide a high level clinical Pharmacy service to Medical, Surgical and Care of the Elderly Wards.

Providing medications for individual patients during their stay in hospital ensuring adherence to Pharmacy policies and procedures relating to medicines management.

The post-holder with provide professional supervision and in-process checking of dispensed medicines and Accuracy Checking within the dept. Whilst providing support to the Dispensary and Medicines Management Team.

Clinically checking all prescriptions before dispensing and referring to the prescriber any unusual doses, potential drug interactions or incompatibilities for confirmation or revision before authorising dispensing.

Working as part of the Medicines Management team ensuring the provision of a responsive, high-quality, safe and effective service.

To dispense Controlled drugs within legal and professional frameworks.

Provide information and advice on the safe, effective and economical use of drugs to health professionals and patients. Visiting allocated wards on a daily basis, prioritising activity as appropriate.

Discussing with patients any issues about their medication and liaising with other health care professional in Primary and Secondary Care as appropriate.

Assessing the appropriateness and safety of prescriptions in terms of dosing, biochemistry, disease management and allergy and recommending changes to treatment where appropriate to improve effectiveness of drug therapy and patient outcomes.

To transcribe Drug Charts on wards for patients whose stay is longer than the drug charts validity.

To provide Medicines Information in line with Hospital Pharmacy and UKMI Standards when requested by prescribers and nursing staff.

To support the Principal Clinical Pharmacist in the provision of and Admissions and Discharges Pharmacy Service.

Policy:

To contribute to the updating of the local Antibiotic Guidelines and the Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines.

To be responsible for and maintain production, implementation and updating of protocols specific to the safe use of Medications within HSC and ensure that these are up to date on electronic Prescribing systems.

To ensure all policies and Guidelines relating to the safe use of medicines are in line with the best clinical practice, network and national guidance.

To develop any new policies and Guidelines as required or recommended by network or national guidance.

The post holder will practice in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Financial Responsibilities:

Promoting high-quality, cost-effective prescribing.

Provides information to the Pharmacy Manager in relation to any High Cost drug spend including identifying causes and potential impact of over-spend.

To work in conjunction with the Medicines Information Pharmacist to ensure that due process is followed when a new drug request is made, ensuring that cost effectiveness of new drugs is proven and documented.

All staff will support their managers to make efficient and effective use of resources. All staff are responsible for identifying any actual or potential deviation from budgets and are to work with the budget holder or manager to find effective ways of handling it.

All staff must ensure they use resources in a manner consistent with organisational objectives and policies, ensuring that resources are realistic, justified and of clear benefit to the organisation.

Administrative:

To ensure that all pharmacy paperwork and documentation is completed clearly and accurately and filed and archived appropriately.

To ensure that all Patient Records are maintained within the bounds of Professional standards, and Data Protection Laws

To ensure that all monitoring and audit data is recorded and reported upon in a timely fashion and audit trails are maintained and accessible.

To ensure that all clinical incidents are reported and acted upon in a time frame as laid out in HSC Guidelines.

To ensure that all drug chart endorsements and transcriptions are done in a neat and readable manner.

General Duties:

The provision of a high quality service, delivered in professional and courteous manner is a requirement of all staff employed by the Pharmaceutical Service.

Promoting positive and effective communication within the Pharmacy Department.

To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in accordance with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), legislation and departmental SOPs.

Establish links with other pharmacists in order to share / learn from examples of best practice.

To adhere to and ensure that all staff follow HSC and departmental Health and Safety, COSHH guidelines and departmental procedures.

Undertake any other training and duties as required by the Head Pharmacist.

Receive, store and supply Controlled Drugs in accordance with the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Contribute to the effectiveness of the pharmaceutical service by putting forward suggestions for innovation and development in professional, technical and managerial aspects of the work.

To participate and contribute to Patient Safety Meetings and where appropriate attend Clinical Risk Meetings.

To practice at all times in accordance with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) code of ethics.

To undertake any other duties of a similar nature when requested to by the Pharmacy Manager or their deputy.