Specialist Pharmacist - Proactive Frailty & Complex Care Team (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Adult Communi[...]

Whittington Health; Islington; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Whittington Health seeks a Specialist Pharmacist to join the Proactive Frailty and Complex Care Team, focusing on comprehensive assessments and integrated care for older adults in Islington. This full-time role involves medication reviews, collaboration with healthcare professionals, and input into service development, all while emphasizing patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Experience in elderly care and complex care.
• Participated in MDT working and medication reviews.
• Registered with the GPhC.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive medication reviews in patient homes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team and healthcare professionals.
• Document findings and follow up on medication recommendations.

Skills

Multidisciplinary working

Clinical knowledge of complex care

Communication skills

Medication review

Strategic development

Education

MPharm degree

Current registration as a pharmacist

Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

Specialist Pharmacist - Proactive Frailty & Complex Care Team

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Adult Community Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 220-WHT-3168

Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site 15B Hornsey Street Town Islington Salary £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 02/07/2025 23:59

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Job overview

The Proactive Frailty and Complex Care Team (PROFACCT) is a multidisciplinary service focusing on comprehensive geriatric assessments and complex care reviews for patients in Islington. The service comprises of physiotherapists, pharmacists, nurses, administrators and an ageUK navigator with clinical input from consultant geriatricians and a specialist GP in geriatrics.

The aims of the service include

- To deliver person-centred, proactive integrated care to frail older people and patients with complex care needs.

- To advocate for this vulnerable group and enable equality of access to existing acute and community services

- To increase their time spent at home with better support and advanced care planning

The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to input into the strategic development of the service and help shape proactive and complex care in Islington.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

1. To carry out comprehensive medication reviews for patients in their own homes.

2. To work in collaboration with the other members of team

3. To do proactive phone screening of patients and undertake initial assessments as part of a comprehensive geriatric assessment

4. To work in collaboration with community pharmacies and any other healthcare/social care workers involved in the patient’s care

5. To attend a consultant-led MDT meetings to discuss patient caseload

6. To discuss any medication queries with a consultant as needed.

7. To document findings on patient records and make recommendations to the GP

8. To give advice to other team members regarding medications as needed

9. To follow up that recommendations have been actioned as necessary

10. To liaise with hospital pharmacy teams as necessary, for example when seeing patients who have been discharged from hospital

11. To engage in the strategic development of the service

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To be responsible for maintaining a personal high standard of clinical practice.

2. To maintain and develop knowledge of evidence-based practice and own competencies through CPD activities (e.g. peer review, in-service training, journal club, external courses), maintaining a portfolio, which reflects personal development in line with GPhC.

3. To use clinical information to help inform clinical decision making, bringing together a range of complex information to formulate diagnoses or care plans.

4. To work within any professional or Trust clinical guidelines, maintain knowledge of current clinical practice and of national and local standards, and to ensure own and colleague’s safe and competent practice.

5. To develop treatment goals/care plans, working in partnership with patients, their families or carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, and to communicate these effectively.

6. To have a working understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and be confident in assessing a person’s capacity to make decisions relating to their medications. (Support will be provided for training if needed).

7. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to communicate complex or sensitive information in a way that patients and others can understand, overcoming barriers to communication e.g. cognitive problems, language barriers, and using motivational skills to ensure participation.

8. To maintain accurate clinical records in accordance with Trust and professional standards, and to ensure that staff in the team maintain clinical records to these standards.

9. To provide verbal and written reports as required, for people both internal and external to the organisation.

10. To be responsible for updating and developing patient medication assessment, treatment and monitoring tools when required.

11. To provide clinical advice and to make recommendations on prescribing issues to patients’ GPs and hospital clinicians in accordance with local policy and guidelines and the requirements of medicines legislation.

12. To provide relevant education and training to Whittington staff.

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

• Has experience of multidisciplinary (MDT) working
• Has up to date clinical knowledge of complex care and long-term conditions
• Previous experience of working in elderly care
• Experience of developing clinical policies/guidelines
• Is able to engage in the strategic development of the service
• Experience in delivery of frailty service to older people
• Has experience of carrying out comprehensive medication reviews for patients in their own homes.
• Experience of line management/ team leadership

Education / Qualifications

• MPharm degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification and current registration as a pharmacist
• Completion of a certificate in Pharmacy Practice / Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent
• Completion of, at least, a post graduate diploma qualification in General Pharmacy Practice / Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities
• Competent in IT and has the ability to learn new operating systems and software packages
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral
• Confident, self-motivated and energetic
• Ability to interpret local or national guidance and translate them to front line clinical practice
• Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy and nursing staff, doctors and other AHPs

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates an interest in the providing quality care to frail older people
• Evidence of and commitment to own personal development
• Demonstrate an understating of and commitment to equal opportunities and equal access
• Able to work flexibly to meet service needs

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

• Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
• Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

• Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
• If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
• Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information –

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Katy Gilroy Job title Specialist Frailty Pharmacist - PROFACCT Email address [e-mail] Additional information

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