Specialist Pharmacist Older Persons Emergency Medicine

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.

This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System

Organisations within scope are as follows:

• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
• Southern Health Foundation Trust
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• University Hospital Southampton
• Solent NHS Trust
• South Central Ambulance Service
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Hampshire Hospitals

Band 8A: £53,755 - £60,504

Full time: 37.5 hours per week

Permanent contract

Our OSDEC (older persons same day emergency care) Pharmacy has an exciting opportunity for a passionate Pharmacist. In this role you will be supported by a Pharmacy team that puts patient care at the heart of what they do everyday and strive to deliver the highest patient centred care and treatment. 

You will Lead the OSDEC pharmacy service; utilising specialist clinical knowledge to provide a high quality pharmacy service to patients 

Play an integral role in the planning, development and delivery of the pharmacy service to frailty and OPM. 

Play an integral role in the planning, development and delivery of the Trust’s 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 Trust’s ability to meet the demands of an ageing population. 

Work with key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of novel integrated services for frail patients across traditional care boundaries. 

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) and integrated neighbourhood teams (INTs). Develop opportunities to integrate roles across the secondary care and primary care boundary. 

To integrate de-prescribing 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. 

Manage, tutor and mentor junior pharmacists and participate in education and development as required.

Practice as a non-medical prescriber within OSDEC and the Medical Village (AMU wards). 

To carry out general dispensing and associated clinical and pharmaceutical duties and to assist with the provision of the general pharmacy service. 

To provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters when carrying out clinical pharmacy services to wards. 

To participate as required in weekend, Bank Holiday, on call and late night rotas. 

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters or Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy
• Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• NMP qualification or working towards

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Member of specialist pharmacist practice group e.g. UKCPA

Experience

Essential

• Relevant hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy services
• Experience of dispensary working

Desirable

• Previous experience of Frailty and/or OPM pharmacy services
• Bank Holiday and weekend working experience
• Working as a specialist pharmacist in an MDT
• Working in a busy hospital ward environment
• Implementing change

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to prioritise, organise and manage workload in an environment that has frequent disruptions
• Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrable ability to work in a team
• Demonstrable confidence as a clinical pharmacist
• Demonstrable ability to use initiative
• Demonstrable ability to maintain quality standards
• Sound knowledge of frailty medical therapeutics
• Experience of writing clinical guidelines
• Experience of leading a team

Desirable

• Word and data processing
• Clinical appraisal skills
• Experience of writing shared care protocols and Patient Group Directions
• Experience of providing education to multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of leading service development

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.