An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacist to take up a post within our NHS@Home team and our inpatient wards.The post holder will have a shared responsibility to lead and deliver medicines optimisation work for our NHS@Home patients in the community, working closely with our other Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – NHS@Home. The post holder will also provide a clinical pharmacy service to one of our inpatient wards. Your responsibilities will include daily attendance on the NHS@Home MDT meeting and review of patients to inform decisions enabling medicines optimisation to ensure that a personalised approach to care can be delivered in partnership. As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will provide a once weekly visit to Savernake ward to work as part of the multidisciplinary team to develop and deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to inpatients on Savernake ward.The post holder will be expected to work multi professionally, support other team member’s roles and contribute to the development of the NHS@Home service. Collaborating with health and social care colleagues across primary and secondary care to deliver patient focused care through innovation and commitment. You will be a pharmacist registered with the GPhC, committed to keeping up-to-date with developments on medicine optimisation and with recent experience in community health and social care, primary or secondary care setting. You will be well organised and methodical, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.This post is ideal for an individual who is motivated by improving patient care, collaborative working, medicines safety and service development.In return we can offer you a supportive and friendly environment to work in with opportunities for training and development. As we value your life outside of work we will consider flexible/hybrid working patterns– this can be discussed at interview.The post requires travel between sites and therefore the post-holder must have a driving license and access to their own transport.For further information about this role please contact Louise Byrne-Jones, Head of Pharmacy 07341 739962 or louise.byrne-jones@nhs.net Package DescriptionAt HCRG Care Group, we value you and your contributions, offering a range of benefits to support your professional growth and personal wellbeing:• Competitive Pay & Pension: Receive a salary of £53,755 - 60-504 with Agenda for Change terms and conditions and NHS pensions• Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with professionals nationwide to develop and share best practices.• Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and offers at leading supermarkets, retailers, and experience providers through our Reward Gateway.• Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, including counseling, career coaching, and legal advice.• Flexible Pay Options: Track earnings and access wages through Wagestream, providing financial flexibility.• Learning & Development: Enhance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities.• Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas for service improvements, and stay informed through regular leadership updates.Main Responsibilities• Clinical Governance and risk management• Identify and evaluate risks associated with medicines use and record through the Risk Register process • Support Wiltshire Health and Care Patient Safety and Quality team and service leads to remove or minimise medicines-related risks. • Work with members of the Patient Safety and Quality team to investigate medicines errors or near-miss events. • Liaise with relevant organisations and partners on HCRG Care Group interface relating to medicine errors or near-miss events• Ensure that all medicines-related risks are reviewed by the HCRG Care Group Medicines Governance Policy and Oversight Group.• Ensure that learning from any medication related incidents is shared widely within Savernake ward and NHS@Home where appropriate external organisations/partners.• Develop and maintain a Medicines Governance Framework for the NHS@Home Service and Savernake Ward, ensuring that existing and new services are safe, legal and comply with national standards or guidance.• PGDs• Support the development and manage the maintenance of PGDs (including approval)• Support the development and implementation of associated PGD documentation, e.g., PGD policy, and competency self-assessment forms.• Non-medical prescribing• Support the non-medical prescribing lead to develop non-medical prescribing in line with HCRG Care Group strategy ensuring that non-medical prescribing is safe, legal, and cost effective.• Monitor ePACT data and prescribing within NHS@Home to ensure it is in line with local formularies, guidelines, and scopes of practice.• Support the ward based non-medical prescribers to ensure non-medical prescribing is in line with HCRG Care Group strategy ensuring that non-medical prescribing is safe, legal, and cost effective.• Monitor ward prescribing, including Non-Medical Prescribing in line with local formularies, guidelines, and scopes of practice.• If qualified as a Non-Medical Prescriber to undertake prescribing in line with policies.Please see the attached job description for the full list of responsibilities.The Ideal Candidate• Master’s Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent e.g., BSc/BPharm/MPharm. • Registered with GPhC as a pharmacist• Clinical Pharmacy Diploma (2 years) or equivalent experience• Good knowledge and understanding of disease states and their treatments obtained through the completion of a degree course and the clinical diploma (or equivalent experience).• At least 2 years’ experience of working in a clinical role• Good knowledge of all the medicines legislation and national standards.• Knowledge of medicines management issues relating to transfer between primary and secondary care• Knowledge of medication adherence/concordance and options to support safe management of medication by patients in the community• Understanding of clinical governance and risk management• Knowledge of prescribing and pharmaceutical systems/processes across care settings• Evidence of continuing professional development.• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English.• To be able to communicate information about medicines effectively to healthcare professionals and prescribers.• Must be able to plan own work and demonstrate good organisational and time management skills. Able to work independently without direct supervision when required, in accordance with professional and national guidelines. • Able to lead and work as part of a team.• Empathic, diplomatic, and able to respond professionally to emotional or confrontational situations.• Flexibility in approach to meet service needs.• Have good manual dexterity and sufficient IT literacy skills to be able to use computers in all aspects of the job including a working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and other commonly used applications.• Clinical audit skillsAbout The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
