Expected Shortlisting Date

27/01/2025

Planned Interview Date

11/02/2025

The paediatric pharmacy team at Leeds Childrens Hospital have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, friendly, and forward-thinking team as the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Paediatric and Neonatal Nutrition.

To be successful you will be an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist who can lead and develop the pharmacy service within the paediatric nutrition team. The nutrition service sees Children from Leeds and around Yorkshire with a wide range of disorders, such as intestinal failure, feeding difficulties, poor growth gastroesophageal reflux, gut dysmotility, coeliac disease, Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis.

You will have a passion for making a difference to patient care and be committed to working collaboratively with both pharmacy colleagues and the multidisciplinary team. Paediatric nutrition experience is preferred but not essential and you would be supported by the team to develop knowledge in the area.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients within paediatric nutrition. You will provide expert clinical pharmacy input and oversight to the areas you work. You will organise, prescribe and advise on patients requiring parenteral nutrition within the Leeds Childrens Hospital alongside our paediatric home parenteral nutrition patients. The post will give you the opportunity to be an integral part of the MDT. You will monitor and report on clinical and financial governance of medicines, advise on potential improvements and lead on these where appropriate. You will be responsible for recording and interpreting blood results and adjusting formulations to meet both clinical need and formulation compounding stability. Education and training is integral to how we work as a team and you will undertake clinical supervision of rotational pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainee pharmacists and have an active role in the education and training of both pharmacy staff and other health care professionals

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, alongside a postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience is required. Ideally you will have paediatric experience and you will be a qualified independent prescriber. You will be committed to leading and developing a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, and take an active role in the education and training of both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.

About us

Based within Leeds General Infirmary, in the centre of Leeds, the Leeds Childrens Hospital is one of the largest childrens hospitals in the UK and treats patients from across Yorkshire and the North of England as a secondary and tertiary referral centre.

The pharmacy department at Leeds is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. Our vision is making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines and we are continually innovating to improve our services for patients and staff.

For informal enquires or to arrange a visit please contact

Caroline Richardson, Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader ( Tel: 0113 3926133, caroline.richardson19@nhs.net)

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Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DETAILS

Job Title: Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Reports to: Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader

Accountable to: Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader

Band: 8a

Unit/Department: Pharmacy

Clinical Services Unit: Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services

Location Trustwide

2. JOB PURPOSE

To deliver and develop specialist clinical pharmacy services to the Leeds Childrens Hospital within the Trust, through provision of.

3. JOB DIMENSIONS

There are no line management responsibilities attached to this post.

Reporting to the Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader the post holder will be responsible for the day today clinical pharmacy service to inpatients ward at LTH. The post holder will communicate across multi-disciplinary teams providing specialist advice on appropriateness of medicines prescribed, across paediatric clinical specialities.

Ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures, and medicines legislation.

Monitors use of medicines within inpatient prescribing. This includes recording of significant clinical interventions, risk management and some basic financial aspects.

Support other members of the team with specialist advice regarding the development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of drugs within the clinical areas.

Responsible for training pharmacists, and other health care professionals, on aspects of drug use within the outpatient clinics.

Provides service cover in the dispensary, aseptics with ward cover when and if required. Participates in the departments weekend and Bank Holiday rotas and where appropriate, out of hours services.

4. ORGANISATIONAL CHART

Clinical Director - Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services

Lead Clinician - Clinical Services

Associate Lead Clinican - Unplanned Care

Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Master of Pharmacy degree (4 years), or equivalent qualification, plus 1 year pre-registration training.

Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Ability to demonstrate competency in all domains of the General Level Framework (GLF)

Substantial post-registration experience as practising pharmacist.

Experience of dealing with complex clinical issues, that require the analysis of a variety of sources of information, these may not be in agreement when reaching an appropriate response. The pharmacist will have experience in negotiating with and persuading other members of the multidisciplinary clinical team, or patients/clients, to agree on a course of action

Experience of dealing with clinical and non-clinical staff, typically at junior grades, but occasionally at higher consultant and managerial levels.

Ability to comprehensively counsel patients on use or sales of medication ensuring appropriate advice is supported by written information using patient information leaflets.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree (or equivalent ) in Pharmacy
• Registrant of General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Non-Medical Prescriber

Skills & Behaviours

Essential

• Lateral thinker
• Confident
• Good problem solver
• Adaptable
• Negotiation and influencing skills

Additional Requirements

Essential

• IT skills

Experience

Essential

• Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies.
• Substantial post registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
• Highly developed patient counselling skills.
• Hospital pharmacy experience.
• Specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge over a wide range of specialities.

Desirable

• Specialist clinical pharmacy experience in nutrition
• Specialist clinical pharmacy experience in nutrition

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

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