Transplant Consultant Pharmacist
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sandhills, Oxford
Transplant Consultant Pharmacist
£8
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sandhills, Oxford
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 29 May | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 715341a6c936472a88b5fe92d47fcadc
Location ref: Sandhills, Oxford
Full Job Description
- Provide expert clinical pharmacy input to transplant patients across inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory settings.
- Act as a specialist source of advice on transplant medicines optimisation, complex therapeutics and governance.
- Lead and support the development of safe, effective and high-quality pharmacy services for transplant patients.
- Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and service efficiency.
- Support delivery of education and training for pharmacy, medical, nursing and wider clinical colleagues.
- Contribute to audit, quality improvement, guideline development, research activity and service evaluation.
- Provide professional and clinical leadership within the transplant pharmacy service and contribute to wider renal and pharmacy strategic priorities.
- Progress towards consultant-level practice across the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership, education and research, supported through an agreed development framework., 1. To maintain a clinical expertise and develop particular areas of interest as appropriate and relevant to the substantive role and in accordance with the Organisation and Pharmacy strategy. 2. To be recognised as an expert within the speciality of clinical pharmacy, locally and nationally and/or internationally. 3. To demonstrate expert clinical knowledge, accepting case referrals for medicines optimisation within Specialist Area, managing and making referrals to other members in the multidisciplinary team. 4. To provide a clinical pharmacy service according to Organisation agreed standards and lead pharmacy service for Specialist Area, acting as clinical role model and inspiring others to excel in practice. 5. To ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely and cost-effectively in accordance with Organisation policy, standard operating procedures and medicines legislation. 6. To monitor medicines use within Specialist Area, includes recording of significant clinical interventions and risk management including: · Investigating and resolving of all complaints in Specialist Area · Recording significant clinical incidents/near misses · Ensuring compliance with medicines legislation and local policies · Investigating and resolving of all medication incidents and complaints in the directorate. 7. To use available information to influence prescribers and ensure patient-centred and cost- effective choice of therapy. 8. To be aware of and adhere to Organisation Corporate Governance commitments and contribute to the monitoring of safe, effective and economic use of medicines in the directorate in accordance with national and local guidelines, working with appropriate colleagues. To ensure pharmacy staff in the Specialist Area pharmacy team are involved in clinical governance in medicines use, including audit of medicines use and review of medication incidents and other aspects of medicines safety such as implementation of safety alerts; CQC outcomes and NHSLA recommendations. 9. To lead on and participate in clinical audits, quality improvement projects and development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of medicines within Specialist Area, using quality improvement skills and methodology where required and linked with local/regional QI groups/bodies or the Health Foundation. 10. To tutor clinical pharmacists undertaking postgraduate qualifications and to tutor other pharmacists and pre-registration students in Specialist Area as required. 11. To participate in clinical patient review with multidisciplinary teams, clinical meetings and/or clinics as appropriate in order to provide medicines-related advice to prescribers and other health care professionals. 12. To develop good working relationships and communication with clinical and managerial staff within Specialist Area and provide a link regarding all aspects of the Pharmacy Service within the organisation and the local health economy. 13. To develop personal practice research in accordance with the Organisation and pharmacy strategy, including supervising research, creating and maintaining links with Higher Education Institutions (HEI's) to support undergraduate year, masters and doctorate students as appropriate. To collaborate with HEI's to develop collaborative research programmes. 14. To maintain a portfolio of practice, for example, regularly submitting portfolio to RPS faculty. To support colleagues in developing evidence for practice, for example, supporting RPS faculty submission within Specialist Area. 15. To contribute to local, national and international specialist interest groups and conferences/meeting and relevant networks. 16. To practice as a non-medical prescriber as appropriate and when registered with the GPhC and the Organisation and to prescribe within the Organisation's policy for Non-medical prescribing. This may include ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing and monitoring therapy, recording and communicating interventions and action plans, all of which may need regular follow up and adjustment. 17. To provide teaching for the pharmacy and Specialist Area staff as agreed within organisation, for example to other health professionals within local health economy and to HEI's supporting Education leads in the organisation and where appropriate, support postgraduate qualifications. 18. To act as knowledge resource for medicines-related issues within the pharmacy and teams and more widely as appropriate. 19. To plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes. 20. To appropriately manage difficult and ambiguous problems, managing uncertainty, and to make decisions with limited information. 21. To demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations based on deep tacit understanding. 22. To demonstrate a whole-system patient-focussed approach. 23. To demonstrate advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement. 24. Where appropriate, to provide clinical pharmacy cover for other pharmacy team members on a reciprocal basis.Clinical Service Organisation and Management role 25. To manage the team within the Specialist Area in accordance with Organisation policy and procedures, for example, pharmacy rotas in the Specialist Area including cover for sickness, vacancies and leave and performance management. 26. To deputise for the manager at high level meetings in the absence of or at the request of the manager or lead to whom Consultant Pharmacist is accountable. 27. To represent pharmacy at organisational level meetings as required by manager or lead to whom Consultant Pharmacist is accountable. 28. To develop a good working relationship and communications with clinical and managerial staff in Specialist Area, and provide a link regarding all aspects of Pharmacy service across local health economy. 29. To ensure effective communication within the Specialist Area pharmacy team, between the team and the rest of the Pharmacy, within the organisation and external to the organisation as appropriate. 30. To demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders, and the profession. 31. To participate in staff recruitment to maintain service provision. 32. To provide out of hours access to specialist clinical advice as per rota. 33. To identify and prioritise the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service to Specialist Area , in line with local and national strategy and standards, identifying and managing the risks involved and working with colleagues to develop overall clinical pharmacy strategy across the trust. 34. To develop extended roles for pharmacy staff to improve the effectiveness of the service. 35. To be accountable for the production and implementation of business plans, and to contribute to business case development within the Pharmacy and Medicines Management Directorate and Specialist Area, liaising with the pharmacy senior staff ensure any impact on the clinical and operational aspects of pharmacy services are fully identified and resourced, as well as colleagues across the health economy and relevant national organisations. 36. To identify new prescribing practices and ensure and monitor the safe, efficient and economic use of medicines in the Specialist Area, in accordance with national and local guidelines, working with appropriate colleagues. 37. To ensure the development, implementation and monitoring of protocols for medicines usage in response to clinical and business needs of the Organisation and Specialist Area, and that these are integrated across the Organisation and within local health economy as appropriate. 38. To provide appropriate support to other Specialist Areas within and outside the organisation, working within them as appropriate. To identify resources required to improve clinical pharmacy services to Specialist Area. 39. To encourage pharmacists in Specialist Area, to be aware of developments and develop expertise in their area of specialist practice and share good practice and act as a resource. 40. To ensure analysis of drug usage trends to identify and implement cost improvement initiatives and to play a significant role within the Specialist Area. 41. If appropriate, to ensure appropriate support and management of clinical trials medicines and unlicensed and compassionate use medicines within Specialist Area, in accordance with national and Organisation policy. 42. To encourage, supervise, and lead clinical and practice research, to improve medicines use and pharmacy practice, demonstrating advanced/expert skills in drug utilization review, evaluation and audit. 43. To support the managed introduction of new medicines to Specialist Area, by supporting clinicians in making submissions to the Medicines and Therapeutics Committee or equivalent and to support the organisation finance manager in securing funding before usage. 44. To ensure a patient-focused approach to medicines management within Specialist Area and that patients are provided with appropriate verbal and written information about their medicines. 45. Any other reasonable duties requested by the lead to whom the Consultant is accountable.
- GPC Registration
- Independant Prescriber
- Appropriate clinical experience in renal and transplant
- Experience of managing a team
- Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma/MSc qualification or equivalent experience Desirable criteria
- Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate team
- Proven budget management or monitoring ability and demonstrable success in achieving savings
- Recognition as an expert nationally through publications / presentations or officer in a national group
- Proven medicines related policy development and implementation. Sexual Safety Charter: In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our renal, urology and transplant pharmacy team in a progression post designed to support development from Band 8b to Band 8c consultant level. We are seeking an experienced, motivated and forward-thinking pharmacist with specialist knowledge in transplant pharmacy who is ready to lead service development, deliver expert clinical care and contribute to the future sustainability of the service. The post has been developed as part of a recent team restructure and provides a clear succession plan for the transplant consultant role, with the opportunity to progress against agreed objectives and milestones.,
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel. In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism., Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
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