# Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Medicine **Company**: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Isleworth **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Salary**: £63665.00 to £70887.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9289-CS-592?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fa6724ea-729 ## Description We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our established, friendly clinical pharmacy team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, located in Isleworth, United Kingdom. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering clinical pharmacy services to a chosen sub-specialty of Medicine, which includes Respiratory, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Care of the Elderly, Rheumatology, and Emergency Medicine. The salary range for this position is £63,665 to £70,887 per annum. **Main duties of the job:** - Acting as a role model and delivering, developing, and evaluating highly specialist clinical pharmacy services - Providing a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Emergency & Integrated Care (EIC) Division - Deputizing for the Lead Directorate Pharmacist - Emergency & Integrated Care - Supporting and supervising less experienced pharmacists within the EIC Division **Job responsibilities:** - Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to the sub-specialties listed above within the Medicine Directorate - Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems - Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if applicable - Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines - 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 - Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication - Demonstrate professional accountability to patients - Act as a clinical role model within medicine and demonstrate the ability to provide high-quality, safe, clinically effective, and cost-efficient use of drugs - Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical care to patients, including medication reconciliation on admission, at discharge, and medication review during inpatient stay - Participate in ward rounds to integrate into the multidisciplinary team - Manage the allocated patients' medication and make appropriate referrals - Communicate highly complex issues in all areas of work - Manage pharmaceutical care issues in palliative patients in a sensitive and empathetic way - Effectively deal with supply issues and liaise with the buying office as necessary - Support all clinical staff in the use of medicines outside of the product licence and unlicensed medicines - Develop recognition as a national and/or international pharmacy expert within the chosen medical specialty - Make appropriate referrals where necessary **Leadership:** - Identify and promote best practice in medication use - Act as a role model for trainee pharmacists, specialist, and junior pharmacists - Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use in medicine - Motivate and inspire others to create and maintain a good working environment - Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives - Demonstrate innovation in the highly specialised chosen field within medicine pharmacy practice - Work collaboratively with pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team, and management - Represent the Trust at appropriate medical specialty external meetings - Deputise for the Lead Divisional Pharmacist medicine when required For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council - Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent training - Independent Prescriber or currently working towards IP - Relevant and extensive post-registration ward pharmacy experience - Recent experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist in medicine or surgery ### Nice to have - ICH GCP Training - Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) faculty membership - Postgraduate qualifications in Medical specialties - Meets the necessary GPhC requirements in order to undertake role of GPhC Trainee pharmacist Tutor --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9289-CS-592?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)