Senior Support Pharmacist - Adult Community Services

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in Wolverhampton seeks a qualified pharmacist to provide clinical services including independent prescribing and medicines management. The ideal candidate will support junior staff, participate in multidisciplinary team discussions, and conduct patient reviews. The Trust offers a supportive environment committed to diverse and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive working environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering pharmaceutical support in a community setting.
• Ability to supervise junior pharmacists and technicians.
• Competence in conducting drug audits and reviews.

Responsibilities

• Partake in pharmaceutical duties in community services and virtual wards.
• Advise healthcare professionals on drug usage and compliance.
• Conduct clinical reviews and dosages for patients.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy duties

Medicines management

Patient counseling

Independent prescribing

Education

Postgraduate clinical training

Registered with GPhC

Job description

• To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties in Adult Community Services (ACS), including our award winning virtual wards, the rapid intervention team, west park hospital, anticoagulation service and district nursing.
• Deliver pharmaceutical support to dental and sexual health community services, including PGD development and review, medicines audits and clinical pharmacy advice support.
• Provide professional pharmaceutical services, including active participation in Adult Community Services, as well as reviewing prescriptions, dispensing, audits and clinical pharmacy services in all areas of the pharmacy department.
• Supervise and provide professional support to junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.
• Education and training support to the multidisciplinary team across community services and the pharmacy department.
• Undertake postgraduate clinical training where relevant to the post.

To act as an independent prescriber once registered with the GPhC in line with local policy and entered in the trust NMP register.

To provide a clinical pharmacy service, including active participation in MDT virtual ward rounds and patient review, as well as domiciliary medicines management assessment when required.

To partake in the pharmacy dispensary service, including oncall, weekends and bank holiday rotas on a pro rata basis.

To advise medical, nursing and ACP healthcare professionals on drug usage at a financial and directorate level and encourage compliance with the hospital/health economy formulary to ensure safe, rational, and economic prescribing.

To provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines, including medicines management audits, in designated areas across the ACS.

To integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend virtual ward rounds making proactive interventions optimising individual patient’s therapy by providing information on drug related issues.

Counsel patients on the correct use of medication and ensure that directions associated with medicines are understood, including the main side-effects as well as any monitoring or escalation requirements.

Once registered with the GPhC, and the Trust, as a Non-Medical Prescriber, prescribe medications to patients to support their clinical management under the care of the virtual ward team.

Resolve medicines related problems associated with individual patients between primary and secondary care.

To support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mary Virdee Job title: Principal Pharmacist for Adult Community Services Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07789 474011