Job summary
Are you looking for a new role? Are you a pharmacist prescriber looking to make a difference within the community? Then Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust may have the role for you!
Weve made exciting progress with our virtual ward and patient numbers are continuing to increase in line with our plan to reach 250 patients by the end of the year. We already have a team of experienced clinicians supporting the virtual ward and we now wish to add pharmacists to our VW team to ensure they have access to medicines experts.
We are looking for someone who has extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience, and the ability to work with a multidisciplinary team. You will need to have excellent communication, clinical and negotiation skills, as well as experience of managing staff, leading a team as well as providing education and training.
Main duties of the job
Inthis role you will be the lead pharmacist for the provision of comprehensiveclinical pharmacy services to the Virtual Wards as well as supporting ourprimary care network. You will be embedded in the multidisciplinary teamproviding care to respiratory, cardiology and frailty patients in the Virtual Wards.In addition, you will support further development of clinical andpharmaceutical pathways. Antibiotics will often play an important role for ourpathways, and you will be key in ensuring the antimicrobial stewardship isappropriately managed. You or your deputy will be required to attend theSystems Antimicrobial Stewardship Group as a pharmacy representative.
Thisis a patient facing role, so dont let the word virtual put off. This meansyou will visit patients in their own homes or in care homes, allowing you toprovide a full holistic review of the patient whilst gaining the additionalinformation around medicines concordance which only a home visit canprovide. with an expectation that youwill be prescribing or deprescribing medicines.
For further information, please contact : Susan Watkins Chief Pharmacistby email: susan.watkins6@nhs.net
Or Steph Wedmore Clinical Service Manager Virtual Wards by phone07970601646 or email steph.wedmore@nhs.net
Interview Date: 10th March2023 at William Farr House, Shrewsbury
About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life – and a good work life/home life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The service offers an appropriate alternative to admissionpathway, which aims to deliver a recommended and agreed medical and nursingtreatment plan. The focus is supporting the safe management of people in theirown home. The role and service, offers integration and partnership working withthe team which includes medical, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, AHPs andsupport workers, across the system to ensure a seamless service.
We are looking for applicants that share our passion for advancedclinical practice and quality of care, delivered to the person in their ownhome. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to join theteam which aims to deliver a combination of remote monitoring with face-to-facetreatment, with the support from senior medical colleagues.
Key selling points for working as a pharmacist on virtualward:
Face to face contact with patients
Full MDT held enabling holistic quality patientreviews, pertinent to their condition and presentation
Opportunity to make a difference by preventinghospital admission
Supervision from experienced clinicians tosupport prescribing development
Ongoing development of community pathways tosupport patients outside of the acute setting
Regular contact with system-wide professionalsto ensure robust clinical governance of patients supported through the STWVirtual Wards
Opportunity to work closely with specialistconsultants and clinical teams responsible for delivering care to patientswithin their own environments
Digitally enabled/innovative/new ways of working
Supporting development of NMP
Please see the full Job Description and Personal Specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The service offers an appropriate alternative to admissionpathway, which aims to deliver a recommended and agreed medical and nursingtreatment plan. The focus is supporting the safe management of people in theirown home. The role and service, offers integration and partnership working withthe team which includes medical, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, AHPs andsupport workers, across the system to ensure a seamless service.
We are looking for applicants that share our passion for advancedclinical practice and quality of care, delivered to the person in their ownhome. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to join theteam which aims to deliver a combination of remote monitoring with face-to-facetreatment, with the support from senior medical colleagues.
Key selling points for working as a pharmacist on virtualward:
Face to face contact with patients
Full MDT held enabling holistic quality patientreviews, pertinent to their condition and presentation
Opportunity to make a difference by preventinghospital admission
Supervision from experienced clinicians tosupport prescribing development
Ongoing development of community pathways tosupport patients outside of the acute setting
Regular contact with system-wide professionalsto ensure robust clinical governance of patients supported through the STWVirtual Wards
Opportunity to work closely with specialistconsultants and clinical teams responsible for delivering care to patientswithin their own environments
Digitally enabled/innovative/new ways of working
Supporting development of NMP
Please see the full Job Description and Personal Specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in pharmacy (or equivalent such as BSc in pharmacy pre-2000)
- Registered with GPhC
- Clinical qualification at Postgraduate Diploma level or significant relevant clinical experience
- Practising Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Pharmacist with hospital or primary care experience
- Significant post-qualification experience
- Experience of staff line management and development of people
- Be able to illustrate ability to work with other professionals from the multi-disciplinary team.
- Understanding of Non-Medical Prescribing
- Thorough knowledge of medicines legislation
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Have an understanding of the purpose of strategic development and to be able to develop appropriate policies and systems Excellent written and verbal communication
- Able to demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g., patients)
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for acute and long-term conditions.
- Able to analyse and interpret complex technical information and act as information resource for the organisation e.g., ePACT2
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to Senior staff or Heads of Service when appropriate
- Has the skills to produce timely and informative high-level reports
- Fully computer literate including video conferencing and able to communicate complex information in appropriate formats, using Microsoft office for report writing
- Use of pharmacy software
- To be able to organise, plan and deliver complex activities on time and manage own workload and co-ordinate the workload of others
- To have a high level of reporting and policy writing skills
- To have knowledge and understanding of confidential information management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in pharmacy (or equivalent such as BSc in pharmacy pre-2000)
- Registered with GPhC
- Clinical qualification at Postgraduate Diploma level or significant relevant clinical experience
- Practising Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Pharmacist with hospital or primary care experience
- Significant post-qualification experience
- Experience of staff line management and development of people
- Be able to illustrate ability to work with other professionals from the multi-disciplinary team.
- Understanding of Non-Medical Prescribing
- Thorough knowledge of medicines legislation
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Have an understanding of the purpose of strategic development and to be able to develop appropriate policies and systems Excellent written and verbal communication
- Able to demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g., patients)
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for acute and long-term conditions.
- Able to analyse and interpret complex technical information and act as information resource for the organisation e.g., ePACT2
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to Senior staff or Heads of Service when appropriate
- Has the skills to produce timely and informative high-level reports
- Fully computer literate including video conferencing and able to communicate complex information in appropriate formats, using Microsoft office for report writing
- Use of pharmacy software
- To be able to organise, plan and deliver complex activities on time and manage own workload and co-ordinate the workload of others
- To have a high level of reporting and policy writing skills
- To have knowledge and understanding of confidential information management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
