Clinical Pharmacist, Belfast

My client a leading public sector organisation based in Belfast is currently seeking a Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist.

Hours: Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm (Client will consider Part-Time)

Pay: £23.60 per hour

Job Summary

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of Clinical Pharmacy Services to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost effective use of medicines.

The post holder will be a member of the pharmacy team providing a clinical pharmacy service to the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. In order to meet service needs and Trust objectives the post holder may either:

• Be based on a fixed ward/area as a clinical pharmacist or
• Gain rotational experience as a clinical pharmacist across medical, surgical and other core clinical specialties. Rotations will be of defined structure to offer clinical experience whilst balancing with service needs.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

For each of the following, the post holder will:

Clinical and technical

• Provide clinical pharmacy services in a range of specialties, including wards, dispensaries and outpatient clinics.
• Where appropriate, and with the appropriate qualifications, to be an Independent Pharmacist Prescriber within an agreed area. Practice as an Independent Pharmacist Prescriber will be within the scope of individual prescribing activities, as approved through the Trust Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) application and registration process.
• Demonstrate and communicate specialist clinical knowledge.
• Assist in promotion of safe, effective and timely prescribing and administration of drugs.
• Promote prescribing initiatives across the Belfast Trust.
• Obtain an accurate medication history on admission and perform medicine reconciliation.
• Provide a comprehensive prescription monitoring service including

• identification and prevention of adverse drug reactions, drug related events and drug interactions
• therapeutic drug monitoring
• utilising information from patient, notes and blood results to ensure safety and efficacy of medication
• rationalisation of medicines

• Manage Patients Own Drugs (PODs) where appropriate.
• Clinically check discharge prescriptions at ward level and ensure timely discharge information is available to primary care healthcare professionals.
• Provide medication counselling and education to patients and their carers where appropriate.
• Provide medicine related information and advice to other healthcare professionals.
• Contribute to the development of protocols, policies, patient group directions and new drug requests.
• Advise on and support the safe and secure storage of medicines at ward level in compliance with legislation and the Trust's Medicines Code.
• Actively support the principles of risk management.
• Analyse, review and report on drug usage and expenditure data.
• Identify new prescribing practices that may impact on drug expenditure (horizon scanning).
• Identify areas where drug expenditure may be minimized and neg negotiate/ influence practice within the multidisciplinary team to realize these cost improvements.
• Support the development of clinical pharmacy services as set by national initiatives including the Northern Ireland Standards for Clinical Pharmacy.
• Participate in audits and monitoring of pharmacy services and medicines management through data collection, evaluation, interpretation, reporting and dissemination of results.
• Provide, on a regular basis, statistical information relative to activity levels including the recording of clinical interventions and to meet targets and objectives agreed with the Pharmacy Services Manager and Clinical Pharmacy Co-ordinator/ Pharmacy Team Leader.
• Participate in medicine related clinical audit, clinical trials and research and development (across Trust, site or designated area accordingly).

Management and Leadership

• Review individually, at least annually, the performance of any immediate subordinate staff and provide guidance and training where appropriate.
• Participate on recruitment and selection panels for junior pharmacy staff.
• Plan and organise own daily work according to agreed objectives and time frames.

Educational Responsibilities

• Act as a tutor or mentor for staff undertaking, departmentally agreed postgraduate studies.
• Support the development and training of pharmacy staff including junior and Foundation Training Year pharmacists, undergraduate students and technicians.
• Provide education and training to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals and staff as appropriate.
• Undertake personal development, identifying own training needs and maintaining CPD portfolio.
• Participate in training and education as required by Trust and department mandatory requirements.

If you are interested and available for this position, please upload your CV to the link or contact Stephanie Wilson at [email protected]

To be shortlisted for this role all applicants MUST meet the essential criteria. Please note that these roles may be filled quickly but your CV will be kept on file for future similar roles. As there are so many applications, unsuccessful candidates may not be contacted.

Successful candidates may need to apply for an Access NI Certificate with Staffline regardless if you already have a valid certificate. It will be a cost of between £16-£32 depending on clearance level.