Specialist Pharmacist - Care of the Elderly Progressional Post

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust; Truro; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Cornwall is seeking a Specialist Pharmacist to collaborate with the Lead Pharmacist for Care of the Elderly, supporting clinical pharmacy services in elderly wards and hospices. Responsibilities include providing medication counselling, reviewing medication guidelines, and ensuring high-quality pharmaceutical care. Applicants must be registered pharmacists with relevant experience and qualifications. This is a developmental role starting as Band 6 and moving to Band 7 upon meeting objectives.

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist credential.
• Significant post registration experience.
• Experience as a clinical pharmacist in acute settings.
• Experience supervising junior staff.
• Clinical Research experience or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Provide a clinical pharmacy service to elderly inpatients.
• Ensure patient-centered pharmaceutical care during inpatient stay.
• Provide medicines information and counselling.
• Review medication guidelines with the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Medication counselling

Clinical research

Training staff

Education

Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Post-Graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy or working towards

Registered Independent Prescriber or willing to train

Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Job description

Specialist Pharmacist - Care of the Elderly Progressional Post

This post supports the Lead Pharmacist for Care of the Elderly in the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to care of the elderly wards at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, West Cornwall Hospital, as well as specialist provision of end of life care at the hospices. The care of the Elderly Pharmacist work alongside other members of the multidisciplinary team, including consultants, junior doctors and a range of specialist nurses, specialist pharmacists, junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to provide a robust clinical service.

This role can be started as a Band 6 and moved to Band 7 once objectives have been met.

Main duties of the job

Providing a core clinical pharmacy service to Care of the Elderly inpatients in line with the Trust's clinical pharmacy standards.

Ensuring high quality, patient centred, and cost effective pharmaceutical care is provided for the patients from admission, during the inpatient stay and right through to the successful discharge from hospital. This includes the transfer of key information on to the patient's primary care providers when appropriate.

Providing a clinical pharmacy service to hospices as defined by our service level agreements

Actively providing medicines information and medication counselling to health care professionals, patients and/or carers.

Working with multiprofessional teams across the care of the elderly speciality to produce, and review, medication guidelines that promote rational, economical and evidence based prescribing; with appropriate monitoring practice to ensure policies and guidelines are adhered to

About us

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with

visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.

The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.

Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is a research active organisation.

It's established South West Clinical School in Cornwall exists to promote clinical academic career opportunities for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals interested in research and evidence-based activities. Read their research paper to find out more.

Job responsibilities

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• Professional registration and qualification checks
• Employment history and reference checks
• Occupational Health clearance
• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check
• Right to work in the UK

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We may be able to offer flexible working. Please discuss at interview.

We may be able to offer sponsorship but this is not guaranteed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-Graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent) OR working towards
• Registered Independent Prescriber (or willing to train)
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

• Significant post registration experience covering a range of specialties.
• Experience as a clinical pharmacist in acute hospital setting.
• Clinical supervision of junior staff.
• Experience of deputising for a more senior clinical pharmacist
• At least RPS Advanced Stage I (Foundation) or equivalent in care of the elderly.
• Clinical Research experience, or willingness to undertake
• Experience of training staff using coaching or teaching methods

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.