Job vacancy: Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Renal &Transplantation 8a, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth (2024)

Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic clinical pharmacist with an interest in Renal Medicine and Transplantation?

Are you at the stage of your career where you are looking to develop your clinical and leadership skills and work as an integral member of a well-respected and proactive multidisciplinary team, managing the pharmacy service to Renal & Transplant Patients?

Would you like to work with a friendly and enthusiastic renal team working towards credentialing for a consultant post in Renal Medicine & Transplant alongside utilising your skills as a non-medical prescriber, providing outpatient transplant clinic reviews.

Do you want to be part of an innovative Department that have just had an ambitious 5-year strategy and workforce plan approved by the Trust Board?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Depending on the stage of your career, further study will be encouraged and supported. Practice research is also encouraged in this role.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Main duties of the job

• This post holder will be responsible for the provision of a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within the renal care areas focusing on renal medicine and transplantation.
• Act as team leader for the ward-based pharmacy team and as team member of the renal pharmacy team.
• Undertake teaching and clinical supervision of pharmacy staff and other healthcare employees.
• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy services and advice to the clinical specialities, demonstrating a high level of clinical effectiveness.
• Work closely with Lead Pharmacist Cardiology and Medicine & Associate Chief Pharmacist for clinical services on the strategic development of clinical pharmacy services and establish clearly defined roles for pharmacist non-medical prescribers within severe asthma.
• Develop and manage the delivery of pharmacy services to ensure efficient use of resources and systems including monitoring drug expenditure, delivery of financial savings within the service line.
• Work with the clinical and governance teams to develop guidelines, protocols and PGDs
• Undertake audits and engage with Quality Improvement and practice research projects.
• Support the sustainability agenda looking at the environmental impact of respiratory medicines.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP) NHS Trust is the largest hospital on the Southwest Peninsula providing comprehensive secondary & tertiary care to a population of around 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services.

The Renal team at UHP are an enthusiastic team, providing a full range of renal replacement therapy to East Cornwall and South Devon and renal transplantation to approximately half of the South West peninsula. The Plymouth Nephrology Service, is a tertiary service providing 24 hour care for adult patients with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease and with end stage renal failure. The inpatient service covers all aspects of renal medicine alongside acute inpatient dialysis and renal transplantation. The South West Transplant Centre (SWTC) at UHP provides an assessment and treatment service for donors and recipients of kidneys. SWTC also has a proactive live donor and altruistic donor programme.

The Renal Pharmacist and wider renal pharmacy team are considered an integral member of the Renal & Transplant multidisciplinary team, joining a team of clinicians, nurse specialists & other allied healthcare professionals providing a dedicated service to Renal patients.

From September 2024, the highly-ranked University of Bath MPharm degree will be available to study at the University of Plymouth. There will be opportunities for pharmacist colleagues to participate in these educational activities, with the potential for formal roles in the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• • Responsible to the Lead Pharmacist Cardiology and Medicine and Associate Chief Pharmacist Clinical Services for strategic planning and delivery of clinical pharmacy services to renal patients, particularly transplant, chronic kidney disease and dialysis.
• Support the Chief Pharmacist / Deputy Chief Pharmacist / Associate Chief Pharmacist and Lead Pharmacist Cardiology and Medicinein developing, monitoring, and reporting on drug expenditure and medicines budget and the delivery of financial savings as part of the pharmacy CIP.
• Development, implementation, and update of clinical pharmacy policy in conjunction with senior pharmacists.
• Work as a member of the renal, clinical, and wider UHP pharmacy team.
• Monitor, review, and report on medicines related incidents within renal service line.
• Provide highly specialist clinical pharmacy care to patients with renal disease, transplant and related conditions.
• To manage, lead and co-ordinate the renal pharmacy team including junior pharmacists and technicians in the provision of a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service in accordance with local and national standards and strategy and to ensure all members of the pharmacy team are trained and competent for their roles.
• To act as a role model as a clinical pharmacist and team leader, to pharmacists, technicians, ATOs and all other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To practice as an independent prescriber.
• To work towards advanced clinical practice.
• To engage with Quality Improvement and practice research.
• To write and review policies and procedures relevant to pharmacy practice in renal care.
• Monitor and evaluate medicines related protocols and guidelines in renal medicine.
• Ensure an appropriate level of clinical pharmacy service is provided to the renal care areas.
• Propose policy or service changes which improve services and may have multidisciplinary and resource implications
• Configure and implement inductions for pharmacists in renal medicine and the pharmacy department with support from the Associate Chief Pharmacist Clinical Services and Lead Pharmacist Cardiology and Medicine
• Assist in the development and implementation of PGD’s and non-medical prescribing initiatives, when appropriate.
• Ensure that expertise within your area is seen as a resource within and outside the Trust and form working partnerships with other health and social care service providers.
• Recommendation of appropriate therapy for individual patients where evidence is not available, controversial evidence exists or other professionals may challenge advice
• Contribute to the organisations wider antimicrobial surveillance programme, implementing local programmes ensuring appropriate antimicrobial prescribing
• Attendance at Consultant/GP white board/MDT meetings/ward rounds to actively facilitate and provide advice on treatment, including highly complex patients.
• Promote compliance by prescribers and other healthcare staff with local/national policies and the South and West Devon Formulary.
• Application of highly complex knowledge of the evidence base behind drug therapies used.
• Manage day to day medicines queries, including face to face consultations with patients identified to have compliance or other problems in medicine administration.
• Refer patients to other community services where appropriate.
• Liaise with all levels of healthcare staff, patients and carers in all areas of work.
• Analysis, interpretation and monitoring of clinical data including but not limited to: drug levels, U&E’s, blood counts and microbiological sensitivities to guide diagnosis and drug therapy.
• Assess clinical requirements of patients as a clinical pharmacist and an independent prescriber through interpretation of clinical data and examination. If required request appropriate tests and examinations for patients directly under your care.
• Contribute to pharmaceutical initiatives that help with the seamless transfer of patients between different healthcare settings.
• Provide education and training to all healthcare professionals including medical students.
• Pharmacists are expected to work largely unsupervised and to act on their own professional judgement.
• Clinical supervision from another health professional can be arranged and is to be encouraged.
• Clinical roles are supported by policies and guidelines within which the pharmacist is allowed to exercise professional discretion / interpretation.
• Participate in any wider departmental rotas where needed.

We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Name

Vivek Soni

Job title

Deputy Chief Pharmacist

Email address

[emailprotected]

Telephone number

01752 430454

Additional information

For an informal discussion please contact Vivek Soni, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust[emailprotected] orDr Kris Holberg, Clinical Lead for Nephrology[emailprotected] or Dr Imran Saif, SWTC Director for Transplantation[emailprotected]