Advanced Clinical Pharmacist inPeterborough inPeterborough PUBLISHED THU 31 OCT 2024

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 8a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join our pharmacy team, based at the Cavell Centre in Peterborough.Our pharmacists play an integral role as members of the multi-disciplinary team by ensuring medicines are prescribed and used in a way that is evidence based, safe and cost effective to the benefit of our patients. This post will suit a pharmacist wishing to join a vibrant working environment with a desire to further improve on their current clinical knowledge and skills. The successful candidate will be expected to influence prescribing and to continue to integrate pharmacy into the wider multidisciplinary team.The ideal candidate will have a commitment to teamwork, a sense ofaccountability, plus an ability to work under pressure.

We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.

We are keen to support and develop our staff and encourage promotionopportunities within the Trust.

The job will involve working closely with our small team of experiencedpharmacists, technicians and support workers supplying medication and apharmacy service to inpatient mental health, intermediate care, palliative care and rehabilitation wards, as well as community based mental health teams and integrated care teams, plus being part of the clozapine clinic.

As part of a small team you will be involved in all aspects of the pharmacy service. The team supports patients across Peterborough and north Cambridgeshire and therefore you will be expected to travel off site on a regular basis to provide our comprehensive pharmacy service to these locations.

The ideal candidate will undertake clinical pharmacy research and audit to influence practice within the Trust and inform the development of protocols and guidelines associated with the use of medicines in mental health, learning disability and community healthcare services.

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings to identify medication problems and provide advice.
• To offer prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.
• Conducting medication education sessions for service users and carers, either on a one-to-one or group basis.
• Reviewing medication charts on wards and in the pharmacy to ensure their accuracy and appropriateness.
• To undertake dispensing accuracy checking within the pharmacy when necessary Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual service user circumstances.
• Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
• Giving medicines management advice to medical, nursing, and other staff, and medicines information to all members of staff.
• Liaising with GPs and community pharmacists, and involvement in discharge planning to ensure community medication needs of service users are fulfilled.
• To contribute to aspects of the specialist medicine provision system operated by CPFT for clozapine.
• Supporting the clinical pharmacy service clinical input to community health services including hospital settings where necessary.