Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities To provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to wards and departments providing a medicines management service directly to patients with support and training from experienced staff. To participate in the pharmacy dispensary, late night and oncall rotas as necessary. To provide advice to medical and nursing staff on drug usage, and encourage compliance with the hospital/health economy formulary to ensure safe, rational , and economic prescribing. To provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines in designated ward areas. To integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend ward rounds making proactive interventions in individual patients therapy by providing information on drug related issues and acting as a Pharmacy contact. To provide advice to patients on the correct use of medication and ensure that directions associated with medications are understood, including the main side-effects of the medications. To identify drug related admissions and where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Resolve medicines related problems associated with individual patients between primary and secondary care. To support senior pharmacists contributing/providing pharmaceutical advice to the multidisciplinary audit of treatment guidelines. To support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level. To maintain an up to date knowledge of developments in medical and pharmaceutical practice, as part of their own continuing professional development. The full job description and person specification are included with this advert.