Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Pharmacist( Band7- 8a) inWorcester inWorcester PUBLISHED TUE 10 DEC 2024

Are you a specialist pharmacist who wants to develop their skills in diagnostics and clinical decision making? Or maybe you wish to become a more autonomous clinician within Acute & Emergency medicine? If so, we are looking to expand our team and would love to hear from you.

This role will provide you with the skills in order to develop into an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP). Through undertaking a funded MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, you will utilise both higher education learning alongside supported ward based teaching, delivered by experienced professionals. As a trainee ACP you have the perfect opportunity to build a work-based portfolio and continue to extend your existing skills and achieve relevant competencies.

Once successfully qualified as a Pharmacist-ACP, you will provide a hybrid service to Acute and Emergency Medicine areas of the hospital namely, A&E, Acute Medical Unit, Medical Short Stay unit and within our Medical Same Day Emergency Care clinics.

We have a friendly, experienced and clinically sophisticated team consisting of pharmacists, ACPs and consultant physicians to offer all the support you may need. We have successfully developed a number of pharmacist ACPs over the last few years and have an established training pathway in conjunction with a variety of higher education institutions.

Previous applicants need not apply.

During your training years, you will embed yourself as the specialist pharmacist, identifying medicine-related and other issues for attendance/admission within the urgent care foot print. You will also be undertaking your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice which will give you the opportunity to develop yourself in the four pillars: clinical practice, leadership, education and research. You will be supported to develop all of your new-found learning in a supernumerary manner, where you are able to safely practice with the oversight of experienced clinicians.

As a qualified pharmacist-ACP, your working week is shared between your role of a pharmacist and ACP. The role of the ACP incorporates all of your specialist pharmacist knowledge, with the additional learning of diagnostics, examination and complex clinical decision making, that the MSc ACP course offers.

Once qualified as a pharmacist-ACP you will be independently reviewing patients with undifferentiated diagnoses who have presented to hospital. This includes history-taking, examining patients, requesting & interpreting investigations (blood tests, radiological imaging etc.) and implementing management plans.

Whilst undertaking this role, you will be supported by medical teams on a day to day basis, consisting of a variety of healthcare professionals with a shared goal of improving patient care and healthcare outcomes for our population.

About us

Work independently once qualified or within the MDT, being responsible for delivering Advanced Clinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacist roles to the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. This will include assessing patients, identifying medicine-related causes for attendance & admission and developing treatment plans to optimise care

Function as an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complying with all requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independent prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.

Make critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate these to patients and other staff members accordingly.

Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards within the Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.

Use his or her specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants, medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for Acute Medical patients.

Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.

Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and the Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.

Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.

Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute medicine comply with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research on pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.

Contribute to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments drug expenditure within agreed budgets.

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Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:

As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.

Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.

If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email