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Job Title: Specialist Pharmacist
Posting Date: 07 June 2024
Salary: £35,392.00 to £50,056.00 per year
Location: Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 9RW
Company: NHS Jobs
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Closing Date: 18 June 2024
Job Reference: C9245-24-0303

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Job Summary

The Specialist Pharmacist role at NHS Jobs offers a dynamic opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to advance their career. This position entails a range of responsibilities across clinical services, aseptic dispensing, education, training, and general duties, ensuring comprehensive patient care and efficient pharmacy operations.

Main Responsibilities

Clinical Services:

• Patient Interaction: Engage with patients to compile accurate drug histories upon hospital admission, ensuring continuity of medication and facilitating discharge.
• Pharmaceutical Care: Develop, review, and update care plans based on clinical responses and investigation results.
• Prescription Monitoring: Ensure clinical accuracy and cost-effectiveness in inpatient and discharge prescriptions.
• Therapeutic Adjustments: Assess patient responses, interpret blood results, and adjust drug doses or advise clinicians accordingly.
• Consultations and Rounds: Participate in consultant ward rounds and document clinical interventions.

Specialist Services:

• Counseling and Education: Use interpersonal skills to educate patients about their medicines and administration equipment.
• Rapid Discharge Service: Provide a rapid discharge service to expedite patient discharges from clinical areas.

Aseptic Dispensing Service:

• Clinical Checks: Validate prescriptions for aseptic products, ensuring compliance with protocols for chemotherapy and TPN therapy.
• Aseptic Facility Management: Supervise the aseptic facility’s operation, ensuring safe practices and appropriate staffing.
• Technical Oversight: Perform technical checks and final releases of aseptic products, ensuring adherence to GMP standards.

Education & Training

• Mentorship: Provide clinical training, mentoring, and supervision for trainee pharmacists, less experienced pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians.
• Staff Training: Participate in the training of medical, nursing, and other hospital staff in medicines management.
• Research and Development: Engage in practice research, clinical audits, and pursue further studies leading to a diploma or MSc in pharmacy practice.
• Continuing Professional Development: Stay current with pharmaceutical practices through meetings, courses, and conferences.

General Duties

• Professional Standards: Maintain high work standards and promote the professional image of Pharmacy.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to legal requirements related to prescribing, dispensing, and storing pharmaceutical products.
• Rotational Duties: Participate in a rota for weekend, bank holiday, late-night duties, and on-call responsibilities.
• Drug Alerts: Act on drug alerts received outside normal working hours as per local procedures.
• Security: Manage the security of drugs and equipment, holding responsibility for the department’s keys.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply before the closing date of 18 June 2024. Please refer to the job reference C9245-24-0303 when applying.

This role offers a rewarding opportunity to enhance your clinical pharmacy skills and contribute to patient care within the NHS framework. If you are a dedicated Clinical Pharmacist looking to progress to a Specialist Pharmacist role, we encourage you to apply.

For more details and to apply, visit the NHS Jobs website.