Rotational Senior Clinical Pharmacist

We are recruiting for Rotational Senior Clinical Pharmacists who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff., The successful post holder will be expected to develop and deliver pharmacy services to patients at Medway Hospital.
As the Rotational Senior Pharmacist you will ensure that patients get the most from their medicine and recive optimal support.
The post is rotational within Pharmacy. Clinical rotations include (but are not limited to) Acute medicine, Admissions, Cardiology, Surgery, Paediatrics and Critical Care (level 2 and level 3).
In addition, the post holder will gain experience in taking on additional areas of responsibility including: Anticoagulation, Aseptic services, Governance and Risk, Research and audit, and Antimicrobials.
The post holder will liaise between wards, departments and pharmacy to ensure that pharmacy services are tailored to meet the Trust's and patients' needs.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today., To provide a pharmacy service to the wards and departments within Trust whilst working alongside other pharmacists, technicians and assistants.
Antimicrobial Stewardship
Work with Lead Antimicrobial Pharmacist to review antimicrobial policies and protocols to ensure they reflect current and evidence based practice, and are governed by local resistance information.
To ensure antibiotic guidelines, policies and strategies are all adhered to.
Assist the Lead Antimicrobial Pharmacist in ensuring the Antimicrobial Prescribing application is managed, maintained and up to date.
To have proactive input into the antimicrobial management of patients with infections/ sepsis and inappropriate antimicrobial use.
To liaise closely with the Infection Management Team and attend meetings to discuss anti-infective issues and ensure that measures to reduce Healthcare acquired infections are adhered to.
To undertake audit to monitor adherence to antimicrobial policies, providing feedback to divisions and individual prescribers where appropriate.
To provide antimicrobial usage and supply information via Defined Daily Dose data and feedback to the Antibiotic Stewardship Group.
To be part of the Antimicrobial stewardship committee, actively promoting stewardship across The Trust.
To act as an antimicrobial resource for all Clinical Staff within the Trust, particularly
on treatment regimens, surgical prophylaxis, defined durations of therapy, use of restricted antimicrobials, guidance of IV to oral switch and TDM.
To engage with the Hospital at Home (H@H) and Surgical Patient Enhanced (SPET) nursing teams ensuring that outpatient antimicrobials and assays are safely managed.
Attend and actively contribute to consultant led antimicrobial ward rounds.
Patient Services
To dispense and check dispensed medication as required.
To provide a link between clinical and patient services, supervising clinical pharmacy practice within the dispensary as required.
Ensure that prescribing policies pertinent to patient services are adhered to including in relation to the use and supply of unlicensed drugs and licensed drugs used outside licence.
Support the Dispensary Management team to ensure that tasks are carried out in accordance with departmental procedures and protocols by all staff working in the dispensary areas and to record and implement measures to reduce dispensing errors.
Education and Training
Be a Practice Supervisor (PS) or an Educational Supervisor (ES) for Foundation
Pharmacists undertaking the postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice.
Be a Practice Supervisor for Pre-Registration Pharmacists and, if appropriate, to be an Educational Supervisor.
Undertake Supervised Learning Events (SLEs) and ward assessments with Foundation Pharmacists.
Participate in the education and training of pharmacy staff, other healthcare professionals and pharmacy students to graduate level.
Supervise the day to day working of Foundation Pharmacists and Pre-Registration Pharmacists.
Maintain an active portfolio of continuing professional development (CPD)
Participate in departmental CPD educational sessions
Policy Development, Financial & Resource Management
To update or write appropriate standard operating procedures.
To support the development and implementation of policies to control drug expenditure and ensure cost-effective prescribing.
To support the Lead Pharmacist Clinical Services and Principal Clinical Pharmacists in monitoring drug expenditure and providing accurate expenditure information, with appropriate analysis, to the Division.
To identify areas of potential cost-savings, and to implement systems to realise savings and contain prescribing costs.
To educate other healthcare professionals on the costs associated with drug therapy and promote the use of evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing within the division.
Assist the Lead Pharmacist Clinical Services and Principal Clinical Pharmacists to implement local and national directives, policies and procedures e.g. NICE, Patient
Safety Alerts.
Audit and Research
Undertake clinical audit and research work within Pharmacy and in conjunction with other healthcare professionals.
Contribute to the implementation of change arising from audit projects and Quality Improvement projects.
Publish and present the results of such work locally, nationally and internationally.
Supervise audit and other quality improvement projects undertaken by pharmacy students, preregistration pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
General
Report any complaints, incidents or near miss situations via the error reporting
system and your line manager.
To maintain an active portfolio of continuing professional development (CPD)
All pharmacy staff must show confidentiality with regard to any information about
patients, confidential information about the Trust and commercial information (e.g.
drug prices).
To uphold the principles of Clinical Governance within the Trust.
All work will be carried out in accordance with the relevant laws, the guidelines of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the General Pharmaceutical
Council, Trust and departmental procedures and standards of professional practice.
To undertake any other relevant duties as may be required by the Chief Pharmacist

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.