Specialist Pharmacist Acute and Emergency Medicine

Job description Job responsibilities The pharmacy department at Lancashire teaching hospital employs over 200 staff. A licensed manufacturing unit, stores and distribution with wholesale dealer's license, growing clinical trials activity and a proactive medicines management team supporting medical education make it an exciting and diverse department. The clinical pharmacy team provide the service to the wards including tertiary specialties: renal medicine, oncology, plastics, vascular, major trauma, neurology and neurosurgery. Electronic prescribing is now live in over 90% of the hospital. Out patient services are delivered by a wholly independent subsidiary. Duties to include, but not be limited to: Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals, members of the pharmacy team and patients regarding the provision of medicines. This will include where necessary the legislation and safety of medicinal products, reporting of clinical incidents Provide advice to medical, nursing and other health care professionals on the actions and uses of drugs and their safe and effective use. This will include patients with complex pharmaceutical needs. Provide advice to patients and carers to enhance their understanding of their medicines and promote adherence. Undertake the line management duties to support the development of more junior staff. Appraising staff as per Trust policy which will involve identifying training and development needs. Take responsibility for personal Continuing Professional Development in line with department and professional guidance. This includes undertaking all mandatory training required for the role. Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to own area of responsibility, and identify how these services can be improved. Develop guidelines for use in Pharmacy and the speciality to support this. Support the implementation of local and national medicines-related guidance, including National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines and National Service Frameworks, within the speciality to ensure evidence-based medicine is practised. All our band 7 pharmacists are given the opportunity to undertake the trust core management skills and develop as both a leader and line manager.