Specialist Pharmacist - Virtual Wards

Medway NHS Foundation Trust • Full-time • Remote (United Kingdom, England, Gillingham) • £48.53k - £54.62k / year • 1w ago

Job Title: Specialist Pharmacist - Virtual Wards

Division: Unplanned & Integrated Care

Band: 8a

Salary: £48,526 - £54,619 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: Week Commencing 3rd April 2023

Contract: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (part time working requests will be considered).

This is a new and exciting position created as a recognition of the benefit of specialist pharmacists to patient care.

The specialist pharmacist will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to virtual ward patients under the care of Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to promote the optimised, safe and cost-effective use of medicines.

We as a team are keen to focus on continuous improvement of our services for the benefit of our patients and welcome new ideas and opportunities.

You will be a core member of the Trust’s respected and expanding SMART team who oversee virtual wards, providing professional pharmaceutical governance, medicines safety, medicines information, medicines finance, education and training and medicines optimisation support to the team.

You will build relationships and work with internal stakeholders and external partners to support the delivery of high quality pharmaceutical care to patients.

Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Lead the provision of specialist clinical pharmaceutical services to the staff (medical, nursing, allied health professionals and managers) and patients of the virtual ward service in order to achieve high quality, safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing and use of medicines and ensure a safe transition of care across settings.

Provide pharmaceutical professional support, legal and ethical guidance and advice to all clinical and non-clinical staff within the service to raise and maintain standards of practice that meet or exceed current standards.

Attend, and contribute to, regular multidisciplinary team meetings (face to face or virtual clinics) where patients are reviewed.

Prescribe medication for individual patients within the agreed scope of practice and competence, and according to Medway NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures. Although independent prescribing is a desired qualification, candidates without this qualification will be considered.

Liaise and work in partnership with external health professionals and stakeholders across the integrated care system (ICS) in the management of virtual ward patients (e.g. GPs, community and primary care network pharmacists, social care providers)

Develop and deliver training and education to ensure staff are delivering high quality and evidence-based care when using medicines.

Develop and maintain policies and standard operating procedures for the service that are evidence-based and comply with legal and current guidance thus providing tools to maintain the safe and secure handling of medicines.