Urgent Community Response/Hospital @ Home Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

NHS Jobs; Frimley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking an Urgent Community Response/Hospital at Home Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to provide expert clinical pharmacy leadership across UCR, Hospital at Home and Virtual Ward services. You will ensure safe, effective and cost-efficient medicines use while supporting patients to avoid hospital admissions.

You will deliver advanced clinical pharmacy services, including medicines reconciliation, reviews and optimisation; practise as an Independent Prescriber where appropriate; lead

Qualifications

• Advanced Clinical Pharmacist with medicines optimisation expertise.
• Independent Prescriber where appropriate.
• Experience with Urgent Community Response (UCR), Hospital at Home or Virtual Ward pathways.
• Strong medicines governance and safety focus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced clinical pharmacy services including clinical assessment, medicines reconciliation, medication review and optimisation for patients in UCR, Hospital at Home and Virtual Ward pathways.
• Provide specialist medicines advice and support to medical, nursing and allied health colleagues.
• Lead medicines governance, quality improvement, audit, incident investigation and implementation of best practice.

Job description

Urgent Community Response/Hospital @ Home Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

As an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist within the Urgent Community Response (UCR), Hospital at Home and Virtual Ward services, you will provide expert clinical pharmacy leadership, medicines optimisation and prescribing support to patients receiving acute care in their own homes. Working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, you will ensure the safe, effective and cost-efficient use of medicines while supporting patients to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating earlier discharge from hospital. Key responsibilities include: Delivering advanced clinical pharmacy services, including clinical assessment, medicines reconciliation, medication review and optimisation for patients managed within UCR, Hospital at Home and Virtual Ward pathways. Practising as an Independent Prescriber where appropriate, initiating, reviewing and adjusting treatment plans to improve patient outcomes. Providing specialist medicines advice and support to medical, nursing and allied health professional colleagues across community and acute care services. Leading on medicines governance, quality improvement, audit, incident investigation and implementation of best practice to ensure compliance with regulatory and organisational standards. Supporting the development and implementation of clinical pathways, policies, procedures and service improvements across the Virtual Ward and Hospital at Home services. Working collaboratively with primary care, community services, hospital teams and care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care and continuity of medicines management. Providing education, supervision and training to pharmacy, nursing and medical colleagues to enhance multidisciplinary working and medicines safety. Contributing to service evaluation, performance monitoring and innovation to support the continued development of community-based acute care services. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality acute care closer to home, improving patient outcomes, strengthening medicines governance and supporting the ongoing growth of innovative community healthcare services. For more information please see the attached job description and person specification.