Expected Shortlisting Date

03/01/2024

Planned Interview Date

20/01/2025

The Leeds Medicines Advice Service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our dynamic Medicines Advice team as our Lead Advanced Pharmacist - Medicines Advice.

Leeds Medicines Advice supports the safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines by the provision of evidence-based information and advice on the therapeutic use of medicines.

The post holder will have the opportunity to develop both their clinical and leadership skills, working collaboratively within the pharmacy and wider clinical teams across the Trust to support evidence-based decision making about medicines, and provide training for other staff to support their development.

Main duties of the job

As the Lead Advanced Pharmacist - Medicines Advice you will help to guide and develop Medicines Advice at LTHT.

Working with our pharmacists and pharmacy technicians within Medicines Advice, you will help to ensure that our service continues to provide high quality, evidence-based answers to queries on medicines from healthcare professionals, patients and carers, as well as provide training opportunities to help pass your skills on to others.

You will also have the opportunity to work with colleagues within the wider Leeds Medicines Advisory Service, incorporating commissioning, safety, formulary and primary care interface workstreams, as well as maintain a clinical commitment.

In return, we will provide you opportunities to demonstrate and develop your own skills and knowledge within the remit of Medicines Advice and the wider Leeds Medicines Advisory Service, helping you to build your experience and giving you a strong base for your future career.

About us

LTHT is one of the largest acute trusts in England, with Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services (MMPS) being a highly respected and forward-thinking Pharmacy department. Our vision is underpinned by the Trust values: The Leeds Way. MMPS is recognised in the organisation for our collaborative working and we continuously support our workforce to develop to their potential in delivering the best patient care.

Within the Medicines Advisory Service at LTHT we have our busy enquiry answering service, the medicines safety team, medicines commissioning, primary care interface and formulary management.

Working within this friendly team will provide you with insight to these different areas to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full information, please see the attached Job Description

JOB PURPOSE

Provide a highly specialised enquiry answering service from the Leeds Medicines Advisory Service.

Provide a Clinical Pharmacy service to a defined specialist patient group in line with the Advanced Competency Level Framework

To deliver the Medicines Information related objectives identified in the Medicines Management strategy.

To work with the Leeds Formulary Manager, Medicines Finance and Commissioning teams to ensure information required for formulary and commissioning meets the need of the process

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

To provide leadership within Medicines Advice and the wider pharmacy in using information to inform high quality patient care.

To be competent to an advanced level and deliver a safe and effective MI service that considers the overall complex clinical picture.

Provide a high quality enquiry answering service to health care professionals of all grades within the Trust (including Consultants, pharmacists and nursing staff ) and patients and health care professionals outside the Trust

Search for, evaluate, interpret and present highly complex specialised advice using oral and written communication skills, of ten considering and comparing a range of options where the information may be conflicting or unavailable, in order to promote the safe and clinically effective use of medicines.

Work independently using clinical experience and specialist skills to provide reactive and proactive information and evaluated advice. The post holder has the freedom and experience to decide how to achieve the expected results, deciding when/if to seek guidance from peers.

Responsible for coordinating and supervising rotational Medicines Information staff within allocated sessions, acting as a role model to more junior pharmacists. Organise workload according to individual skill set and experience, and to meet changing service requirements.

Deliver and develop MI skills training packages to staff within the Trust. Review and professionally check work produced by others to maintain high levels of service in line with legal and professional responsibilities.

Respond to complaints and difficult or challenging circumstances as required or referred by junior staff.

Provide a high standard clinical pharmacy service consistent with the advanced level competency framework, to patients within a given clinical speciality, to be agreed with the Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader taking into account the specialist skills and interests of the post holder.

Person Specification

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Enthusiastic, dedicated and motivated
• Innovative, shows initiative and contributes to strategic developments

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience
• Experience of providing specialist information on the safe, effective use of medicines in a clinical, Medicines Information or primary care setting
• Experience in training others and/or developing training programmes

Desirable

• Supervisory or management experience
• Involvement in service development

Qualifications

Essential

• Pharmacist registrant of the GPhC
• Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma / MSc or equivalent

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

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