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* 12 mth Fixed Term Maternity Leave cover * 

JOB SUMMARY

This senior pharmacist role will lead and support the Pharmacy Service provided to the Emergency Floor (Acute Medical Unit, SDEC, and Emergency Department).

This includes responsibility for the Pharmacy Hub located on the Acute Medical Unit and staff associated with the pharmacy service to the Emergency Floor.

The post holder will be the responsible for the pharmaceutical care to the Acute & Emergency Directorate including clinical, medicines safety and financial governance associate with medicines use.

There will also be operational commitment to the Pharmacy service weekends and Bank Holidays on a formal rota (currently 1:6).

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Clinical Responsibilities:

• Will be the Pharmacy lead for medicines optimisation to the Emergency Floor (Acute Medical Unit, SDEC and Emergency Department)
• Responsible for developing and delivering specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation to the Emergency Floor
• Use specialist knowledge of medicines to advise medical, nursing, patients, carers and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of care

• To receive and deliver highly complex clinical information including information that may be contentious and highly sensitive relating to patient care

• Responsible for the development, monitoring and review of medicines related guidelines to the Emergency Floor
• Provide direct patient facing care as part of the ward based and dispensary clinical pharmacy service through clinical checking of prescriptions in line with professional, legal and best practice standards
• Lead on medicines reconciliation for the Emergency Floor to ensure patients receive the correct medication as early as possible in their stay
• Liaise with primary care and social care colleagues to provide to ensure transfer of information relating to patients medicines is timely and accurate
• Agree priorities for high risk patient groups with regards to their medicines.

• Prescribes appropriate medication within professional competency (including transcribing regular medication and initiation of new medications)

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.