Job Title: Lead Pharmacist, Medicines Information
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Salary Range: £73,304.59 to £80,567.67
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time:
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date:18/10/2024
By joining the Government of Jersey and wider Jersey Public Services, you'll be proud of what you can achieve – both for yourself and the people of Jersey. You'll enjoy a broader scope that allows you to express yourself, in a smaller setting that means you see the positive results of your impact every day. You'll have a diversity of opportunities that stretch and challenge you, with all the personal and professional support you need. Most of all, in our open, welcoming environment, your voice matters, enabling you to build a rewarding career.
Job Purpose
This role will manage, develop and deliver a comprehensive Medicines Information (MI) service to healthcare professionals and patients. The post-holder will work with the Associate Chief Pharmacist for medicines optimisation team in maintaining and developing the HCS prescribing formulary and therapeutic switch programs in order to ensure cost-effective use of medicines. Deliver a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to a designated area, including working with a care group/directorate to promote high quality medicines use.
Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2
1. Co-ordinate and deliver a Medicines Information service to ensure that accurate, evaluated and timely information is provided to internal and external customers.
2. Apply professional expertise and judgement when receiving and answering medicines enquiries, to ensure the safe and clinically effective use of medicines.
3. Maintain and develop an electronic enquiry database and management system (Ml Databank) for the efficient storage and retrieval of past enquiries and the production of workload reports.
4. Disseminate medicines information as appropriate to pharmacy staff, to enable access to the information they need to deliver services.
5. Performance manage direct reports and manage the delivery of the MI training and education programme to pharmacists and technicians.
Job Specific Outcomes 2 of 2
6. Work with the Pharmacy Services Manager to develop the MI service to ensure that the service meets national standards, including the participation in internal and external audits and the implementation of improvements.
7. Provide specialist information to support formulary decisions by the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee and maintain the hospital medicines formulary. Monitor compliance with the formulary and provide appropriate reports for consideration by the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee.
8. Work as a member of the multi-professional health and care teams, providing highly complex clinical pharmacy advice and expertise to peers, patients and management to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered to patients, within a specialist area.
9. Perform clinical and technical checks of aseptically prepared products, including complex chemotherapy and TPN regimens, to ensure that the aseptic preparation service receives the clinical and operational support that it requires to deliver a high and accurate level of service.
10. Provide planned sessional clinical and professional supervision with the pharmacy dispensary.
Qualifications
Essential :
Vocational (four year) master’s degree in pharmacy.
Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (obtained by completing one-year postgraduate pre-registration training with final examination).
Post-graduate MSc or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
Desirable: National Medicines Information Training Course
Knowledge
Specialist knowledge of therapeutics of common disease states and frequently used therapeutic regimes.
Well-developed knowledge of pharmaceutical technical and clinical procedures acquired through training and experience.
Knowledge of checking dispensed prescriptions and supervising staff within the Pharmacy.
Up to date knowledge of national guidelines and legislation relating to medicines use and pharmacy practice.
Practical knowledge of maintaining records according to confidentiality and data protection protocols.
Technical Work Based Skills
Able to demonstrate a range of information technology skills i.e. an ability to effectively use IT equipment and role critical software.
General skills / attributes
Well-developed practical, clinical pharmacy skills.
Strong relationship building with both internal and external stakeholders, up to and including at a senior level.
Able to understand and manage a range of complex facts or situations requiring analysis.
Strong problem-solving acumen.
Excellent communication; verbal and written.
Communicates effectively across all levels.
Ability to adapt personal style in order to influence others and gain support for ideas.
Supports the development of and shares learning with other members of staff.
Able to remain professional and effective under pressure.
Committed to continuous service improvement and also continued professional development for themselves and their team.
Self-directed and resourceful.
Flexible approach to work.
Experience
Significant post-registration experience in hospital practice, including several years’ experience in clinical pharmacy practice, including medicines information.
Completed comprehensive rotations in hospital pharmacy including medicines information and clinical pharmacy.
Experience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Facilitation and tutoring of pharmacy staff.
Across the Government of Jersey and public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities – to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.
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