Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Diabetes & Cardiology

Are you looking for a new challenge and passionate about the area of Diabetes and Cardiology? We have an exciting opportunity available for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join our team and lead on these two specialty areas, supported by additional members of the pharmacy team. You will lead on all aspects of medicines optimisation and medication use within the specialties, supporting medical and nursing teams, as well as allied health professionals in the safe and effective use of medicines. Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation at the Trust are well developed and we are committed to sharing excellence through our clinical services and teaching roles. We are actively seeking to progress and expand the roles undertaken by our senior clinical pharmacy team into areas such as out-patient clinics and patient support groups. We will support you to continue to develop your advanced skills in clinical pharmacy, and would expect you to have a significant impact on the use of medicines by supporting safe and high quality services and supporting the patient journey., Working within and leading a small pharmacy team, you will use appropriate skill mix within the team to ensure that medicines reconciliations are completed in a timely manner in line with current national recommendations, the safe and efficient use of patient's own medication and effective communication through transfers of care. Through excellent leadership skills, you will be expected to implement changes required to ensure that the service runs in a safe, efficient and cost-effective way. You will develop excellent working relationships with senior leaders within these specialty areas, investigating opportunities for expanding roles to support patient pathways. You will work with senior pharmacy leaders to progress these opportunities and bring them to fruition., 1. Provide an advanced and highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to the areas of Endocrinology and Cardiology. 2. Lead on all aspects of medicines optimisation within the areas of Diabetes and Cardiology, liaising with key stakeholders to ensure use of safe, optimum and cost effective treatments, in line with national and local policies. 3. Contribute to the provision of audit and policy development in relevant areas. 4. Deputise, where necessary, for advanced clinical pharmacists from other relevant specialties. 5. Provide supervision to other members of the pharmacy team in a clinical environment. 6. Provide medicines reconciliation, review and care planning for individual patients with complex medication needs. 7. Counsel patients in the correct use of medicines that have been prescribed and provide support when needed. 8. Ensure seamless transfer of care through excellent communication and the use of electronic resources, e.g. PharmOutcomes 9. Collect, manipulate and analyse data on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the effects of the Directorate Pharmacist, by participating in intervention monitoring, encouraging the reporting of medicines errors and undertaking practice research. 10. Assist in the development of policies, guidelines and pathways relating to drug therapies. 11. Undertake the professional duties of a pharmacist in order to ensure that the medicine use process conforms to legal, ethical and moral guidelines accepted by the General Pharmaceutical Council and Royal Pharmaceutical Society. 12. Be an active member of the ward-based multi-disciplinary care team. 13. Represent Pharmacy at directorate/service meetings relevant to clinical area of practice. 14. Provide advice on medicines use and medicines expenditure to the Directorate. 15. Liaise with Pharmacy section heads on matters of mutual interest. 16. Contribute to the clinical development of all staff by participating in assessments of need, proficiency and the delivery of training. 17. Provide directive teaching, small group work and on-ward teaching rounds to medical undergraduates, junior medical staff and other health care practitioners. General Duties 1. Promote Practice Research. 2. Participate in local, regional or national forums/meetings/working parties. 3. To promote a safety conscious culture. 4. To contribute to the development of the pharmacy service at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust. 5. To contribute to achieving the in year performance targets and objectives. 6. Support junior pharmacy staff in performing their duties. 7. Keep up to date with practice through CPD. 8. Act as a designated and authorised Pharmacy key holder. 9. Demonstrate commitment to IWL principles and flexible working patterns, to meet the needs of the service and staff. 10. Tackle discrimination and harassment and promote equality and diversity in the workplace. 11. Reduce sickness absence; work place accidents; and promote zero tolerance on violence against staff. 12. Take responsibility for personal development and education and the development of a Personal Development Plan. 13. Be a designated line manager for a junior pharmacist(s) and/or technician. This will include responsibility for carrying out regular appraisals and one to ones, managing sickness absence and ensuring business goals are clearly communicated and linked to objectives. 14. Review training and development of staff, so all staff have a personal development plan and support staff in reaching their full potential through the appraisal process. 15. To act as the Responsible Pharmacist when covering the In-patient or Out-Patient Dispensaries in the Trust, which includes supervising Over the Counter Medicines sales direct to patients, using your skills in managing minor ailments. 16. To act as an Independent Prescriber (once qualified) to provide direct care to patients by means of any Trust prescribing stationery.

• Please note - Once sufficient applications have been received this vacancy may close early
Please check your email address on a regular basis as applicants invited to attend an interview will be notified via this method. As part of our recruitment process, you will be required to undertake pre-employment screening: Disclosure and Barring Scheme (previously Criminal Records Bureau) Where a post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 it may be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Scheme to check for any previous criminal convictions. Should you require a copy of the Trust's Disclosure and Barring Service Policy, please contact a member of the recruitment team on . It is the policy of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost for their DBS certificate. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay on commencement with the Trust. Please note the essential qualifications required for the post outlined within the Person Specification. You are required to hold and provide evidence of the necessary qualifications for the post at interview should you be shortlisted. For any new employees commencing employment with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust , you will be subject to satisfactory completion of a 6 month probationary period. Please note that internal applications and individuals that are appointed to fixed term appointments of less than 6 months duration are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or a bank member of staff). As part of our pre-employment screening process, all applicants are required to provide references covering their last three years employment history. Applicants are requested to ensure e-mail addresses for all referees are included on their application form. Personal references are not acceptable. If the hours advertised for the post are up to full time (37.5 hours per week), applications are still welcomed from individuals who may be seeking to work less than full-time hours and all requests will be considered in line with the post being appointed to for the successful applicant. North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust operates a No Smoking Policy., As a supporter of the Armed Forces and an employer of Reservists, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust are proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, which is a promise by the nation to ensure that those who serve or who have served in the UK Armed Forces (and their families) are treated fairly. We recognise that reservists and veterans bring a variety of transferable skills and qualities to our workplace, developed through their military careers. Our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces Community has been recognised through the Armed Forces Covenant as a Silver Employer. What does this mean? We proactively demonstrate our forces-friendly credentials within our recruitment and selection processes, by having a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for those indicated as part of the Armed Forces Community. We engage with our local and regional Career Transition Partnership representatives and are a member of Step Into Health. We employ veterans and reservists from differing branches of the Armed Forces and actively promote our positive policies for the Armed Forces Community, including our Special Leave policy. We advocate support for defence people issues, including facilitating easier access to Healthcare Services for our patients within the AF Community. We have supported employees through Reservist training, through additional leave for their training and ongoing support under our Special Leave policy.

We are on a continuous journey of improvement and transformation , however our main priority is, and always will be, providing safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. If you share our passion then apply for this opportunity and help us make our patients' experience the best it can possibly be. With a budget of around £365m, three hospitals and 5,500 staff, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital-based services to the population of Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees and parts of East Durham and Sedgefield as well as community, therapeutic and screening to a wider population across Durham and Teesside., At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience. We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards. We recruit for values and "Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool"

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