Are you passionate about acute medical care? Looking to work with a team of specialist healthcare professionals?
LUHFT employs over 120 pharmacists across 3 sites providing clinical pharmacy services to all major specialties. This post is based on the Royal site of the Trust Emergency Floor (Acute and Emergency Medicine)
We are looking for motivated and forward-thinking clinical pharmacists to work with our team on the Emergency Floor .
We already have a well-established clinical pharmacy team on the Emergency Floor but we are keen to extend this service. We have fully integrated electronic systems to help you deliver excellent clinical care to your patients.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the Acute and Emergency Medicine areas.
Assist the Lead Pharmacist for the Emergency Floor in the development of pharmacy services and medicines management within the Acute and Emergency Medicine area
To provide a safe and effective advanced clinical pharmacy service to the Acute and Emergency Medicine areas
Assist the Lead Pharmacist for the Emergency Floor in providing clinical training and supervision, relevant to Emergency and Acute Medicine, for other departmental staff.
Provide non-medical prescribing services to the Emergency Floor
To provide an advanced clinical service to the Emergency Floor in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies
Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical information to medical and nursing staff and patients within the Care Group and to General Practitioners and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
To act as an independent prescriber in accordance with the Trust's Non-Medical Prescribers policies and guidelines (once registered as a non-medical prescriber).
Participate in the therapeutic drug monitoring service provided in accordance with departmental procedure; in particular gentamicin prescribing and monitoring.
For a full list of duties, please refer to the attached job description and person specification