Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 8
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 367-BankBand8-Pharmacist
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pharmacy Dept, Kingfisher Court, Kingsley Green, Herts, WD7 9HQ
- Town
- Radlett
- Salary
- £50,952 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Session by session
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Band 8 Pharmacist, Radlett sw1217/sw1223
Band 8
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
We are currently looking for a Pharmacist to work on a Bank contract, based at Kingsley Green, Radlett. This will be at a Band 8 level.
Travel within the areas covered by HPFT is necessary.
You will be joining and so supporting an innovative, award-winning pharmacy team who are forward thinking and are leading the medicines optimisation agenda trust wide.
All applicants will need a current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
PLEASE SEE JD/PS ATTACHED FOR FURTHER INFO
Main duties of the job
Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical advice concerning the care and treatment of service users in Mental Health (including Forensics) and Learning Disabilities Services and to promote safe, effective, and evidence-based cost-effective use of medicines within the Trust.
Actively lead the provision and development of pharmaceutical services to a specific service line.
Provide highly specific advice to clinical team members on the management of complex medicines related issues, such as complex drug interactions, medicines use in pregnancy, unlicensed/off-label use of medicines etc.
Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathetic or re-assurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or cooperation is required or because there are barriers to understanding. This may also involve presenting complex, sensitive, or contentious information to a large group of
staff, service users or carers.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
With a workforce of c. 3,000 and an annual income of c. £200m, the Trust is organised across three Strategic Business Units and provides integrated health and social care services through a large network of community and inpatient settings, serving diverse communities across Hertfordshire, Norfolk, North Essex and Buckinghamshire. As a university trust, HPFT continues to develop strong links with the University of Hertfordshire providing excellent learning and development opportunities, as well as strengthening our clinical research capability.
Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT. Building on the CQC ‘ Outstanding’ rating given by the CQC in 2019, we remain on our “Good to Great” journey as we continue to innovate, improve, transform and ultimately deliver the very highest standards of care to the service users and communities that we serve.
In our recent NHS Trust Survey, 95% of staff feel their role makes a difference to Service Users, 90% are enthusiastic about their roles and people would recomment us as a place to work
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibility
• To provide highly specific advice to clinical team members on the management of complex medicines related issues, such as complex drug interactions, medicines use in pregnancy, unlicensed/off-label use of medicines etc.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide clinical pharmaceutical support to designated areas to maximise benefits and minimise risk to service users. This will include medicines reconciliation, prescription review, medication reviews, identification and management of drug interactions and adverse effects, advice on clinical monitoring, medicines information, advising on supply problems, compliance with
Medicines legislation, compliance with Trust policies and guidelines and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings where appropriate.
• Accurately and efficiently screen, dispense, and check prescription for in patients, leave and discharge medication in order to facilitate and ensure the safe and effective administration and use of medication.
• To carry out medication reviews and provide a clinical pharmacy service and pharmaceutical advice and support to designated mental health or learning disabilities units or teams within the remit of HPFT. These reviews will support clinicians preparing care plans for individual service users.
• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols. Where prescribing medicines as part of the role, to adhere to the trust Non-Medical Prescribing policy within area of competence.
• To have current effective status on the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• To have gained further professional and clinical knowledge through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes.
• Provides clinical supervision and training to junior clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
• To ensure appropriate medicines optimisation, clinical review and risk assessment as deemed necessary when prescribing, reviewing, or advising on medicines related issues to service users and the wider multi-disciplinary team in a range of settings, inpatient or community.
• To provide service users and relatives with medicines information and education, ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
• To supervise the competence of pharmacy staff in clinical service provision in line with the Clinical Pharmacy Standards.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential criteria
- BPharm / MPharm / BSc Pharmacy
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a secondary care setting, (demonstrable post qualification hospital pharmacy practice)
- Documented evidence of completed audit work and research practice
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering training to staff
PHYSICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Able to travel using own vehicle to various Trust and other locations across Hertfordshire. *Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- bank bureau
- Job title
- Business Admin Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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