Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Neurology

Please refer to the job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake . To provide a clinical Pharmacy Service to the Neurology ward at Queens Medical Centre. To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patients own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care on leaving hospital. To ensure patients receive the best pharmaceutical care throughout their stay. To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified. To make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines. To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the medical team specialties. To facilitate or conduct clinical audits and quality improvement projects. To support the Specialist Pharmacists for Neurology and Neurosciences with ensuring good medicines management and governance within the Neurology speciality. Screening of Neurology Homecare Prescriptions. To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties. We operate a 7day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on-call rota providing back-up support to the on-call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist-free and technician led, so there are no operational commitments. Job description Job responsibilities Please refer to the job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake . To provide a clinical Pharmacy Service to the Neurology ward at Queens Medical Centre. To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patients own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care on leaving hospital. To ensure patients receive the best pharmaceutical care throughout their stay. To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified. To make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines. To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the medical team specialties. To facilitate or conduct clinical audits and quality improvement projects. To support the Specialist Pharmacists for Neurology and Neurosciences with ensuring good medicines management and governance within the Neurology speciality. Screening of Neurology Homecare Prescriptions. To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties. We operate a 7day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on-call rota providing back-up support to the on-call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist-free and technician led, so there are no operational commitments.