Harbour Unit Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities To be the medicines optimisation pharmacist for the harbour unit. To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the harbour unit. Provide medicines reconciliation within patients own homes and also on the SDEC unit. Working to help improve compliance with medication and improve patient safety Lead the development and delivery of a specialist pharmacy service by providing in-depth, patient-focused clinical medication reviews to patients to ensure safe and effective care. Provide highly specialised pharmaceutical advice in highly complex situations (where advice may be challenged) to health care professionals, care home staff, patients and carers. This will involve visiting patients in a range of settings including care-homes and patients own homes. Promote the safe, effective and high quality, cost-effective use of medicines To provide a clinical pharmacy service to newton abbot community hospital beds when needed. Working closely with the local General Practitioners providing the medical cover for these inpatient beds and the other pharmacists covering both Teign and Templar ward. To promote joined up medicines optimisation across South Devon through the establishment of close working relationships with pharmacists working in general Practice, those based in community pharmacies, intermediate care and those based in secondary care. To particularly focus upon supporting those patients being prescribed polypharmacy and those patients who are being frequently admitted to secondary care. This may be achieved on an individual patient basis or by working with pharmacists based in General Practice. To guide on deprescribing in frailty and inappropriate or risky polypharmacy, including familiarity with STOPP/START and other deprescribing approaches. Recognise high risk medications in frailty and utilise appropriate tools to asses these eg ACB scoring, opioid burden. Be familiar with frailty-attuned chronic disease targets and use these to support prescribing decisions. Please see the attached Job Description for further details of main responsibilities and person specification