Specialist Frailty Pharmacist
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Wymering, City of Portsmouth
Specialist Frailty Pharmacist
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Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Wymering, City of Portsmouth
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 24 Oct | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 92f9ffa3ca144a8bb54c85b9726192ff
Location ref: Wymering, City of Portsmouth
Full Job Description
- To be the lead pharmacist for Urgent Care Frailty utilising specialist clinical knowledge to provide a high quality pharmaceutical service to patients
- Support medicines optimisation of patients with frailty within the Emergency Department, the Older Persons Medicine and Frailty Same Day emergency Care (OSDEC) service, and the Acute Medical Unit.
- Play an integral role in the planning, development and delivery of the Trusts restructuring of patient pathways within frailty and elderly care. This will involve working with members of the MDT in order to provide excellent clinical care as well as developing the Trusts ability to meet the demands of an ageing population.
- Provide expert clinical knowledge and advice on frailty medicine to enable the Pharmacy department to continue to develop its links with local Primary Care Networks (PCNs), including expanding the opportunity to create integrated roles across the secondary care and primary care boundary.
- To integrate the de-prescribing tool for use on frailty and elderly care wards which enables pharmacists and medical teams to de-prescribe in a structured and evidenced based manner therefore addressing the issue of polypharmacy.
- Practice as a non-medical prescriber focusing on frailty in the Emergency Department, OSDEC and the Acute Medical Unit.
- To provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters when carrying out clinical pharmacy services to wards
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff. Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.