# Senior Pharmacist Team Leader (Elderly Care and Rehabilitation)

**Company**: Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Uxbridge
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist to join our team as a Senior Pharmacist Team Leader for the Care of the Elderly and Rehabilitation services.

The Senior Pharmacist Team Leader is a key clinical role within the Trust's pharmacy service, working closely with the Principal Pharmacist to manage pharmacy provisions. The post holder will deliver high-quality, patient-focused clinical pharmacy services for older adults across inpatient care and lead the medicines optimisation agenda to medical elderly care, frailty and rehabilitation departments.

**Main duties of the job**

- Ensuring compliance with medicines legislation, policies and procedures

- Ensuring a safe, legal and timely supply of medication to patients

- Working independently and liaising closely with Senior Pharmacists, Principal Pharmacists, the Head of Pharmacy and Chief Pharmacy Technicians

- Being responsible for the day-to-day planning and provision of clinical pharmacy and medicines management services

- Positively influencing cost-effective prescribing

- Assisting in the development of clinical guidelines, protocols and Patient Group Directions (PGDs)

- Providing professional and managerial support to Principal Pharmacists when required

- Acting as the first point of contact for clinical practitioners and support staff on matters relating to medicines management

- Being professionally accountable for their own practice and that of others within their field of practice

- Providing effective leadership to divisional staff and across the pharmacy team

- Facilitating the safe discharge of all patients by ensuring the timely transfer of medicines information

**Job responsibilities**

- Manage and provide a clinically orientated pharmacy service to healthcare professionals and patients with complex medical and pharmaceutical needs

- Critically evaluate and interpret patient information to ensure that prescribed treatment is safe, effective and appropriate

- Proactively suggest evidence-based improvements to drug therapy and management of patients

- Provide evaluated information to consultants, senior medical staff, nursing staff, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals

- Counsell patients, relatives and carers about medication

- Dispense/supply medicines safely and legally for all patients

- Manage the pharmaceutical care needs of patients at admission through to discharge

- Respond appropriately to requests for information on medicines from patients and/or their representatives

**Person Specification**

- GPhC registered

- MPharm or equivalent

- Minimum 3 years recent post-registration experience of Hospital pharmacy practice

- Understanding of developments in Pharmacy practice and service delivery within the NHS

- IT Skills (competence in all basic software e.g. word, excel, power point)

- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including formal presentations and reports

## Skills

### Required
- GPhC registered
- MPharm or equivalent
- Hospital pharmacy practice
- IT Skills
- Excellent communication skills

### Nice to have
- Train the trainer course

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