Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards inWarrington inWarrington PUBLISHED THU 5 DEC 2024

The Senior Clinical Pharmacist plays a crucial role within our virtual wards, with a clinical focus on frailty, respiratory and general medicine, working collaboratively with acute providers across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and evolving environment, providing pharmaceutical expertise to support the delivery of safe and effective patient care.

Our team is expanding and we are looking for two Senior Clinical Pharmacists to join our Virtual Ward Pharmacy Team, working alongside the Principal Clinical Pharmacist to design, enhance and deliver high quality pharmacy services to patients receiving care on virtual wards. Each role works alongside the pharmacy and clinical teams at the acute trust(s) which deliver the virtual ward service they are allocated to. We are now looking for enthusiastic individuals for Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East Cheshire NHS Trust, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, however consideration will be given to allocation to one of the other sites across Cheshire and Merseyside.

Join our team and make a difference in the lives of patients across Cheshire and Merseyside!

The main duties of the role include:

• Providing specialist clinical pharmacy services to the virtual wards, ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines.
• Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to optimise medicines management, including medicines reconciliation, prescribing, and monitoring.
• Conducting comprehensive medication reviews and providing evidence-based recommendations to improve patient outcomes.
• Supporting the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, protocols and policies related to pharmacy and medicines management for virtual wards.
• Providing education and training to healthcare professionals, patients and carers on medicines-related topics.
• Contributing to audit, research, and service improvement projects to enhance pharmaceutical care for patients on virtual wards.

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Role summary - please note that a full JD/PS is attached to this vacancy

The post holder will be an integral member of the C&M virtual wards pharmacy team. The main duties are to provide specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients admitted to the virtual wards across the ICB footprint and be part of the Place virtual ward clinical teams:

Lead and deliver on a specialist clinical pharmacy service to virtual ward patients.

Provide and develop a specialist clinical pharmacy service to improve the quality of patient care and to promote evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing and use of medicines. Identify risks related to medicines and manage these to ensure patient safety and improve patient experience.

Manage other members of the virtual wards pharmacy team as appropriate.

Lead on projects and audits to monitor the delivery of the pharmacy service as the virtual wards evolve.

Provide training and education to clinical and healthcare staff, including members of the virtual ward MDT.

Play a key role liaising with a range of colleagues in the virtual ward teams, notably prescribers, nurses, other clinical roles, finance, human resources, estates, facilities, transport and health and safety.

Participate in the virtual ward MDT ward rounds.

The post is allocated a base but may be expected to travel to patients homes across a defined geographical area within C&M.

The post holder will be required to work with different organisations across C&M ICS.

The post holder will be expected to work flexibly in line with hours of operation of virtual ward sites.