Specialist Pharmacist | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for enthusiastic and determined individuals to join our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. You will be part of a clinical team working using your skills for patients and service users on general wards, in specialist clinics, GP practices and a range of community settings.

We are delivering new ways of providing direct patient care in acute and community settings. You will be part of this exciting future, where artificial health boundaries are broken down to improve patient care. Pharmacy is fully integrated within the Trust's enhanced care teams, providing care to our frail/high risk patients living in their own homes or care homes. It is also increasing its service within primary medical care practices, enabling delivery of care to patients with long-term conditions as part of a multidisciplinary approach.

· Provide highly specialised clinical services and provide highly specialised advice concerning care within diabetes speciality.

· To provide a personal clinical and professional contribution to the clinical pharmacy service e.g. by participating on medical and other ward rounds, in clinics, counselling patients, prescribing. Clinical pharmacy describes how pharmacists use their expertise and experience to make sure that patients get the best out of their medicines. It involves proactive and direct patient care which reduces clinical and financial risk i.e. maximising clinical outcomes, minimising patient morbidity and risk of error and maximising cost effectiveness.

· To review patients' notes and prescriptions and to provide specialised advice to patients (& carers), medical staff and other healthcare professionals, in order to ensure safe and effective medicines management and the best patient care.

· To consider clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and make appropriate interventions to ensure safety and optimisation of patient therapy within assigned clinical area of responsibility.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality including a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

· To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within diabetes speciality. To lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk management, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines. To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation.

· To assist in the provision of advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines management encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.

· To provide excellent patient care, in primary and acute care settings, through direct patient facing activities. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential care homes.

· To undertake teaching and to supervise less experienced Pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.

· Day to day management of trainee pharmacists and band 6 foundation pharmacists

· To contribute to the day to day operational running of the pharmacy department e.g. by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.

· To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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