Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Emergency Care / Admissions

As a forward-thinking department, we are constantly evolving-driven by a passion for improving services, enhancing safety, and delivering the best possible care. Our Emergency Care Team showcased their impactful work at the Clinical Congress 2024, and we're incredibly proud of our Advanced Pharmacist, who won the poster competition at the UKCPA Conference 2023 for her work on VTE assessments in admissions.
Come and join us as we help to shape the future of emergency care!, To operate as an Advanced Pharmacist in the Emergency Department and support the pharmacists in Admissions Unit as an Urgent Care pharmacy Team
To communicate highly complex information relating to medicines with clinicians, nurses, independent prescribers, carers and patients.
To develop and evaluate the delivery of a responsive, proactive, patient-focused Clinical Pharmacy Service to ED, being an active member of the multidisciplinary team and thereby promoting the safe, appropriate and clinically effective use of medicines
To organise, provide and evaluate Pharmaceutical Services to the ED
To lead the strategic planning of pharmaceutical issues relating to the ED e.g. Implement ,develop and maintain the electronic patient record and EPMA system.
Facilitate achievement of clinical standards for 7-day Pharmacy Services.
To supervise and train Pharmacy staff rotating through the clinical specialities within the Medicine and Urgent Care Group.
To play a lead Trust role in promoting and developing the optimum use of medicines as per Primary and Secondary policy use of medicines.
To play a key role in ensuring continuity of pharmaceutical care on admission and transfer to acute admission wards, to facilitate smooth and rapid admission and discharge.
Be responsible for advising areas regarding security of medicines and controlled stationery.
To contribute to the delivery of the Trust Medicines Optimisation Strategy

Working for our organisation
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the post include the following:
Clinical Services

• To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice.


• To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.


• To fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.


• To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews, using patients' own medicines, counselling and ensuring continuity of care on discharge.


• To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy.


• To monitor pharmacy interventions and Datix reports to identify training and information needs within Urgent Care.


• To participate in CQUINs and QIPPs within Urgent Care.


• To identify and implement service improvements within Urgent Care.


• To lead and support on the auditing of medicines and prescribing within Urgent Care.


• To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.


• Facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA.


• Support the development and implementations of medicine related guidance, policies and procedures within medicine and Urgent Care.


• Support the process for new medicines being integrated into the Trust by Formulary submissions.


• To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust policy.


• To undertake validation duties in the dispensary.


• To supervise, check and, if necessary, undertake the supply of medicines. Technical checking is in place; pharmacists make initial validations and have a professional responsibility to decide on the need for their further involvement in the supply process.

Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Role

• To lead and develop practice guidelines and protocols within the Emergency Department and how these relate to national and other guidance.


• To optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence (where appropriately qualified and authorised via the Trust NMP register).


• To prescribe safely in the interests of the patients and in line with the formulary, policy, procedures and guidance.


• Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and urgent care wards.


• To provide an Enquiry Answering Service for Urgent care-related enquires from other pharmacists or referred from other wards.


• Support the Advanced Clinical Pharmacists in Admissions in delivering clinical pharmacy and medicine management services and developing relevant business cases to Urgent Care.


• Able to demonstrate and understanding of relevant pharmacy services priorities and contribute to

the implementation of these priorities.

• Requirement to undertake and support in project work within the Urgent Care Team.


• Attend governance meetings and report any medicine management issues.


• Support and develop Medicines Management Team with Advanced Technician for Urgent Care, Act as a role model to the pharmacy team, including supporting junior pharmacist to achieve their

objectives.

• Attend clinical pharmacy meetings and education/training schemes relevant to post.


• To take part in formal and informal education of pharmacy staff e.g. Technician enhanced

counselling skills and other healthcare professionals in Urgent Care.

• To supervise aspects of undergraduate, trainee pharmacist, diploma or as Designated prescribing

Practitioner (DPP) .

• To line manage and lead those staff allocated, undertaking appraisals, supervision and

identification of training and development of their skills and knowledge.

• To assist in the induction of staff into the service; to help identify training and development needs.


• To provide information to patients, parents, and carers on admission and at discharge regarding

treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance, particularly if there is a need to
overcome language or communication barriers.

• To maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice to ensure a

broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement.

• To take responsibility for own personal CPD by participating in education and training programmes

to improve competence and to develop specialist expertise in Urgent Care area.

• To obtain/maintain prescribing qualification and support services and ward rounds as appropriate.
  
  To line manage staff including objective setting and appraisal.
  
  At Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of patient care, and since 2016, we've led the way by placing dedicated ward pharmacists in our Emergency Department. In 2021, we expanded this approach to our Admissions Unit. Our highly skilled team includes medicines management technicians, assistants, and specialist pharmacists (Bands 6, 7, and 8) with expertise in emergency care, diabetes, and respiratory medicine., At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.

We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence® designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That's why we talk about Team NGH. It's all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.