Advanced Specialist Pharmacist- Elderly Care & Frailty

We're seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist to join our Elderly Care and Frailty Team. You'll help deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to our Elderly Care Wards and Departments. You will work across our Elderly Care Wards and support the development of the clinical service to our Frailty Emergency Assessment Unit and Frailty Same Day Emergency Care, at our Royal Stoke University Hospital site, supporting admission avoidance and de-prescribing. You'll work closely with our multidisciplinary teams and with pharmacy colleagues across both UHNM sites, benefiting from extensive training, development, research, and networking opportunities. You'll also train and support the development of junior pharmacists completing Elderly Care and Frailty rotations., Utilise expert pharmaceutical knowledge to manage elderly & frail patients. Utilise the independent prescriber skill daily within your scope of practice (or work towards obtaining). Provide prescriber support for complex medicine regimes e.g. gentamicin, vancomycin, aminophylline infusions. Support flow with efficient discharge medication supply routes in and out of hours. Review adverse incident reports and educate medical and nursing teams on pharmaceutical issues to lessen risk. Review and develop guidelines and PGDs. Develop cost improvement initiatives. Train, develop and line manage junior and trainee pharmacists. Work with the Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Medicine on the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service.

• Has proven experience in delivering evidence-based, cost-effective pharmaceutical care
• Can support team development and contribute to financial and risk management
• Is enthusiastic about improving the care of older adults
  
  University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust. At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.