Lead Pharmacist - Department for Medicine in the Elderly inWestcliff-on-Sea inWestcliff-on-Sea PUBLISHED
TUE 28 JAN 2025
Key responsibilities include providing clinical services to wards and outpatient departments, participating in ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings, and offering specialist pharmaceutical advice. The successful applicant will also manage medication safety, oversee the storage and use of medications, implement guidelines, and supervise trainees. The position requires dynamic and motivated individuals eager to contribute to a pharmacy department dedicated to exceptional patient care and integrated service delivery.
We are looking for a lead pharmacist for the Department for Medicine in the Elderly to take overarching responsibility for our service to our DME and frailty wards.
This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open minded and dynamic pharmacist who is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal / relationship building skills.
You will lead the pharmacy clinical service within your specialty day to day at the Southend Hospital site, supporting the site Clinical Lead Pharmacist by ensuring patients receive a safe and effective service.
You will work closely with the other lead clinical pharmacists for DME at the Basildon and Broomfield sites.
The successful candidate will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and is now ready to specialise in adult medicine. You will have experience in excellent service delivery and management and a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments.
We look forward to receiving your application if you are interested in the role and believe you have the qualities we require!
Main duties of the role will include :
- Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge and outpatients service
- Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate
- Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
- Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.
- Take part in the emergency on-call pharmacist rota. Working alone as the on call pharmacist, provide: medicines information, advice and supply out of hours, and sourcing of urgently required drugs from external suppliers.
- To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy RiskGovernance Pharmacy Team with the medicines optimisation and governance agenda.
- Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.Implement local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g. NICE.
- Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward-based technicians.
The Pharmacy department has a 'can do' attitude and strives to provide the best service possible at all times to our patients and our colleagues. The pharmacy vision is to be a 'service without walls', integrated within the ward teams supporting excellent patient care .
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For more information regarding detail of expected duties and personal specifications, please read the attached job description & person specification document
We look forward to your application.
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