Clinical Pharmacist - Portsmouth and South East

Your work will focus on enhancing patient safety in medicines practice including medicines reconciliation, providing clinical professional advice to prescribers as part of a multi-disciplinary team, discharge planning, clinical audit, and teaching.

Utilise pharmaceutical expertise, working in partnership with patients, carers and healthcare professionals to minimise medicines-related harm and facilitating medicines optimisation.

Provide clinical pharmacy advice and participate in the pharmaceutical services to the East Region (Porstmouth and South East).

Monitor drug usage and promote cost effective prescribing.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Essential: - Masters Degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration/ foundation year training.; - Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Desirable: - Postgraduate Diploma (or MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience (or willing to work towards this).; - Independent prescriber qualification.

Essential: - Post registration experience working as a pharmacist.; - Demonstrate the ability to recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information appropriately to patients, carers, and clinical staff.; - Experience of delivering training and education.; - Experience of working in a constantly changing environment.

Desirable: - Post-registration experience working community health services and/or in mental health services.; - Experience of ward based clinical pharmacy.; - Experience of working with older persons.; - Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure; - To have undertaken clinical audit.

Essential: - Aware and able to respond to customer needs.; - Able to cope with stressful situations.; - Demonstrates assertiveness in difficult situations.; - Able to be flexible.; - The ability to identify and prioritise work.; - Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.; - The ability to identify and manage risks; - Up to date and familiar with evidence-based medicine, medicines information and medicines knowledge.; - Knowledge and understanding of prescribing and drug costs and how they relate to the local health economy.

Desirable: - Teaching and presentation skills.; - To have an awareness of national and local priorities.; - Sound knowledge of drug management of physical health disorders as well as mental health disorders, including national guidance.; - Clinical and critical appraisal skills; - Able to influence all grades of medical staff; - Evidence of writing procedures, clinical guidelines, and policy/protocols.