Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist looking for a new challenge? Do you want to work at the forefront of service development? Are you looking to join a multi-disciplinary team where you can develop new skills as well as teach others?

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to join the multi-disciplinary team of our frailty virtual ward service in East Kent, known as the East Kent Frailty Home Treatment Service. Virtual wards are a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care, supporting patients to receive acute care, monitoring and treatment in their own home to prevent avoidable hospital admission or support early discharge.

The pharmacy service will deliver a medicines optimisation agenda, taking a proactive role in the entire patient care episode. The pharmacy service will ensure the safe, effective and appropriate use of medicines through acting as an expert source of knowledge to virtual ward staff, patients and their carers development and implementation of policies and procedures and provision of relevant training whilst monitoring and improving standards through audit. Service aims include reducing inappropriate polypharmacy, reducing potential harm from medication and improving health outcomes.

You should hold an independent prescribing qualification but applications will be considered from those who would work towards the qualification (progression to 8a subject to completion of qualification).

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for:

o Leading the provision of specialist clinical pharmaceutical services to the multi-disciplinary staff and patients of the Frailty Home Treatment Service, in order to achieve high quality, safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing and medicines use.

oProviding pharmaceutical professional support, legal and ethical guidance and advice to all staff within the service to raise and maintain standards of practice

oWork collaboratively with clinicians within the multidisciplinary team to ensure patient medication is optimised

o Prescribe medication for patients within agreed scope of practice and competence

o Work in partnership with external health professionals and stakeholders across the integrated care system e.g. GPs, community and primary care network pharmacists, social care providers

o Support the transfer of care of patients discharged from the virtual ward, ensuring a high standard of information provision concerning medicines to relevant professionals and organisations and onward referral to appropriate services to support patients to live independently and manage their medicines

o Develop and deliver training and education to ensure staff are delivering high quality and evidence-based care when using medicines.

o Develop and maintain policies and procedures that comply with legal and current guidance thus providing tools to maintain the safe and secure handling of medicines.

About us

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MSc in Pharmacy / Registered with GPhC / Postgrad diploma or equivalent / Prescribing qualification

Desirable

• Recent evidence of using prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• 5 years post registration experience / Range of clinical experience / Patient consultation experience / Understanding managing medicines in community

Desirable

• Experience in multiple sectors e.g. hospital, community pharmacy, community health / Working in MDT

Experience

Essential

• Writing medicines policies & procedures / Education and training staff and patients / audit / project management / CPD

Knowledge

Essential

• Clinical knowledge of medicines in frailty / Understand legal and ethical pharmaceutical issues in community / Safe and secure management of medicines in community / Risk management & quality assurance / Clinical governance & quality improvement

Desirable

• Provision of pharmacy services to community services / EPMA and EMIS

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills with wide range of people / Excellent interpersonal skills / Work independently and own initiative / Work across care interfaces / Able to influence, challenge and facilitate change

Desirable

• Extract data and present data from clinical systems e.g. EPACT, EMIS / Manage staff, resources and budget

Personal attributes

Essential

• Self-motivated and proactive / Work well in a team and independently / Time management & prioritisation / Flexible and reliable / person-centred approach

Employer details

Employer name

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trinity House & East Kent Locality

Ashford, Folkestone, Deal, Margate, Herne Bay

TN25 4AZ

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