Job summary
This post is a fixed contract is designed for newly qualified GPHC registrants to gain hands on clinical experience across mental health and community hospitals.

The post will initially be based at St Ann's but providing clinical service to other hospital sites will follow on experience.

This is a part time post of 18.75 hours per week on a fixed term contract.

This is a fixed term role and for those with current NHS service, the role will be offered on a secondment basis only. Please obtain permission to be released on a secondment before submitting an application.

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

Main duties of the job
To be part of the Dorset HealthCare Medicines Team (DHMT) providing clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation support to patients in the inpatient and patient home setting.

Provide clinical pharmacy support to community and mental health inpatient beds within Dorset HealthCare working closely with the clinicians covering these beds.

Using pharmaceutical expertise, to clinically review all prescription charts following admission of patients to the post-holder's allocated wards/units, ensuring patients are prescribed safe and effective medication. This includes monitoring all prescription charts (paper and electronic) to ensure safe, legal and evidence based prescribing takes place - and safe accurate administration - including clinical screening for drug interactions, overdoses or inappropriate prescribing e.g. renal, liver, cardiac impaired or pregnant patients.

To support the pharmacy technicians and ward/unit staff to ensure that adequate ward/unit pharmacy stock levels are maintained on allocated wards and to regularly review and adjust levels if necessary depending on prescribing trends.

To compile a drug history where possible from patients admitted to Trust services to ensure continuity of their medication and records relevant information in order to facilitate the discharge process.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.

Person Specification
Essential

• Vocational masters degree in Pharmacy (4 years or equivalent) plus one year pre-registration training
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Broad clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Good Organisational Skills
• Ability to interpret medical notes and relate them to patient care
• Good knowledge and understanding of disease states and their management through completion of undergraduate degree and Preregistration training
• Experience of providing patient information and education either in the 'hospital' or 'community' setting
• Able to communicate with patients
• Self Motivated and confident
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Able to work independently.
• Commitment to excellence and patient and carer support.
• diplomatic
• willingness to undertake self-development, including post graduate qualifications
• Confident in the use of computer systems, spreadsheets, databases, data collection and coordination, wordprocessing and report writing
• Understanding of information governance, data protection and patient confidentiality in relation to information systems

Desirable

• Good Presentation skills
• Experience of providing patient information and education
• Experience of co-ordinating complex activities / programmes of care with other professionals and agencies.
• Experience of working in a hospital Pharmacy
• Proactive and innovative
• Experience of using EPMA Systems
• Experience of Using Electronic Patient Records

Employer contact details
Contact: Richard Bradshaw, Lead Pharmacist MH and CoHo Inpatient Services
Email: r.bradshaw@nhs.net
Phone: 01202492042

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