Foundation Pharmacist - Band 6-7 Progression

Job Purpose: To deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and community mental health teams in line with Trust policies, procedures and standards. To support patients to gain maximum benefit from their medicines, through medicines related consultations with patients and carers, involving patients in treatment decisions, and improving patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines To support the multidisciplinary inpatient teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage through medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes, and by providing medicines related training To develop post-registration foundation pharmacist skills in accordance with the Royal Pharmaceutical Societys (RPS) Foundation Pharmacy Framework and work towards specialist mental health pharmacy skills To act as a practice supervisor in the training and education of trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists (once progressed to B7) To prescribe medicines within competence and scope of practice, once qualified to do so by completing the post-graduate certificate in Independent Prescribing (once progressed to B7) To partake in the pharmacy on-call service (Emergency Duty Cover, bank holiday rotas) and a Saturday service. Key Responsibilities: To ensure safe and effective use of medicines at ward, team and dispensary level. This includes adhering to Trust policies, pharmacy procedures, local and national guidelines, and legal requirements. To be responsible for providing clinical pharmacy input as part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT). This will include providing advice to clinicians on medicines, including the use of unlicensed medicines use and areas of practice where the evidence base is lacking, liaising with the medicines information pharmacists where appropriate. To be responsible for providing a clinical pharmacy service to groups of patients Ensure effective outcomes of treatment with medicines Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines Ensure the effective, timely and accurate supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if applicable. Support planning for discharge, including liaising with community team pharmacists for follow-up appointments where appropriate Undertake medicines-related consultations to inpatients during their admission and run medication groups on the ward. Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the optimal use of their medicines. To assess medicine regimes both during enquiry answering and/or routine ward visits, providing highly specific advice to other clinical team members on the management of often complex medicine related issues, such as complex drug interactions, high dose antipsychotic prescribing, unlicensed use of medicines etc. To prescribe medicines within their scope of practice and in line with Trust policy if qualified and registered with the GPhC as an independent pharmacist prescriber. To be able to present information in a suitable format (e.g. written and/or verbal) and style for the target audience. Barriers to effective communication may include learning disability, mental impairment, non-consenting/noncompliant patients, and patients detained under the mental health act who may be violent/aggressive. To provide information in a timely manner, to the appropriate individual (in accordance with the degree of urgency of the request or issue identified). To assist the principal pharmacist in communicating relevant SLaM Trust decisions and policy relating to medicines to local clinical areas. To prepare and deliver training for clinical staff (e.g. nurses, support workers, junior doctors) on a wide range of medicines-related issues. To provide clinical supervision to a team of pharmacists, and to act as a practice supervisor to pre-registration training pharmacists and junior pharmacists. To support local implementation of Trust Medicines Management Policies within own clinical area, and ensure medicines are handled safely and securely within designated clinical areas. To participate in and develop quality improvement initiatives, undertake local and national audits, and engage in research and medicines evaluation as required by the Chief Pharmacist