Clinical Pharmacist- Integrated Community Services

Are you looking for a new wide ranging pharmacy experience? The ICSD Pharmacy Team plays a significant role in supporting patients following an acute hospital discharge or to prevent avoidable admissions to hospital during periods of acute illness.
The role will include working as part of a multidisciplinary team, including GPs, Consultants, specialist doctors, Nurses, Pharmacy, Therapists, Social workers, Support Workers and other colleagues within Local Authority. We also work closely with independent providers of care providing training around medication.
The ICSD Pharmacy team also works closely with Community Pharmacy, ICB and the acute pharmacy team at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. We recognise that effective collaboration is the cornerstone to the safe and effective use of medicines and therefore more positive patient outcomes.
The objective of the service is to offer patients the best opportunity to maximise their potential for regaining independence, and therefore relies on an integrated and committed multidisciplinary team to deliver the shared goal., The purpose of this role is to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to:
+ Provide better co-ordinated care for these patients
+ Identify the medicines management needs of the patients within the ICSD
+ Reduce hospital admissions / re-admissions by being proactive
+ Reduce patient anxiety relating to medicines usage following hospital admission
+ Improve medicine safety
+ Improve medication compliance
+ Reduce medication wastage
+ Avoid duplication of use of services
+ Support the delivery of other services within ICSD

Working for our organisation
Vision
We have a plan that will deliver excellent health and care for future generations, working with partners to ensure our services are sustainable.
We make decisions that are best for long term health and social care outcomes for our communities
+ Openness
We communicate clearly to our patients, families and our staff with transparency and honesty
We encourage feedback from everyone to help drive innovation and Improvement
+ Integrity
We demonstrate fairness, respect and empathy in our interactions with people
We take responsibility for our actions, speaking out and learning from our mistakes
+ Compassion
We take a person-centred approach in all our interactions with patients, families and our staff
We provide compassionate care and demonstrate understanding to everyone
+ Excellence
We put quality and safety at the heart of all our services and processes
We continuously improve our standards of healthcare with the patient in mind, + To provide specialised pharmaceutical advice and education to patients/carers and other health professionals
+ Advise on therapeutic drug level monitoring for specific drugs
+ To support safe and cost effective delivery of pharmaceutical services in bed based services and domiciliary care
+ To provide assessment of patients ability to self-medicate and offer advice and guidance on self-management strategies for individuals
+ To carry out follow up domiciliary visits to patients where reviewing patients' medicines and recommending processes to improve medicines optimisation ensuring all medicines are fit for purpose and appropriate
+ Ensure medicines related incidents are reported ensuring that appropriate learning is implemented
+ Assist in providing clinical training and supervision of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.