Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards Band 8A

An exciting opportunity has arisen at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to join our dynamic pharmacy team supporting our service to patients in our virtual wards. The Clinical Pharmacy Service is well established and provides high quality care across a variety of specialties. Are you ready to be at the forefront of service development?

The Advanced Specialist Pharmacist for virtual wards is the lead pharmacist for the provision of comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to the virtual wards. You will be embedded in the multidisciplinary team providing care to respiratory, cardiology and frailty patients in the virtual wards.

We are looking for someone who has extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience, and the ability to work with a multidisciplinary team. You will need to have excellent communication, clinical and negotiation skills, as well as experience of supervising other staff, providing education and training.

The candidates must have or be prepared to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification to support the service.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

The leadership and proactive development of specialist clinical pharmacy services.
Providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients and developing services in line with appropriate national standards.
Providing expert and highly specialised pharmaceutical information and advice to medical staff, nursing staff, other healthcare professionals and patients, both within the Trust and externally as appropriate.
To work as an independent prescriber to ensure patient medication is optimised for each admission.
Work collaboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services.
Providing clinical training, guidance, support and supervision of junior pharmacists, pre-registration trainees, other Pharmacy staff and other Trust staff as required.
Promoting the medicines optimisation agenda by leading specific audit and research projects in the agreed specialty and provide support to others.
Monitoring expenditure within the agreed specialty against drugs budget, identifying and implementing cost saving initiatives.
Evaluating and expanding the role of pharmacy services within our medical care areas, as well as delivering the required medication safety and governance agendas.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:

Being a clinically led organisation
Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
A positive patient experience every time
A great place to work
Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Ward(s)