Advanced Clinical Pharmacist (XR08)

Smart Motors Toyota; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Clinical Lead for a specialized clinic in Leeds. The role involves overseeing clinical pharmacy services, ensuring safe medication practices, and supervising junior staff. Candidates should be registered pharmacists with strong decision-making and management skills. This full-time position offers a competitive salary based on experience and contributions to patient care.

Qualifications

• Post holder should be a registered prescriber.
• Expectations to supervise and teach junior pharmacy staff.
• Experience in managing clinical pharmacy services essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical pharmacy services within specialties.
• Manage patient care plans and monitor medication usage.
• Supervise clinical pharmacists and participate in training.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Medication management

Patient care

Risk management

Education

Registered Pharmacist

Job description

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Clinical Lead the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality. Supports the Trust's Prescribing Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the Medicines Code. Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy, advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines.

The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve in specific circumstances. Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient care. Plan, manage, monitor and review individual patient care plans. Participate in consultant ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, often when information is limited. Undertake risk management, including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring compliance with medicine legislation. The post holder will be expected to identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues within and outside the pharmacy. Manage the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.

Manage the clinical pharmacist input into clinical trials. Develop and update policies for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical and nursing staff. Communication with Primary Care about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice. Management Monitor and interpret expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality.

Provide the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget a. Attend the monthly Clinical Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial implications - Horizon scan for new drugs and advise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings Projects c. Review prescribing data from out-patient clinics Contribution to financial initiatives Write or respond to business cases for service development to secure additional funding.

Responsible for day to day supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical speciality (some staff) Research and Education Occasionally participates in research and development within clinical speciality Undertakes own research/audit within clinical speciality Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will typically include: - Acting as a trainer to pre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice - Being a named tutor for a pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist - Lecturing on clinical issues relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program, the clinical diploma, and any other in service training. The post holder is also expected to participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their specialist area as requested. Develop the role of a specialist pharmacist through national links.

Other Provide a service commitment, typically a four hour session to a specific area within the pharmacy department e.g. dispensary, aseptics or medicines information Perform other duties as directed by manager Participate in the weekend service and where contracted, the emergency duty service

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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