Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To act as a clinical role model for junior pharmacists and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of
  medicines in all patients within Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
  • Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to a sub-specialty within the Women & Children’s Directorate
  on a rotational basis.
  • Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems.
  • Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if applicable.
  • Ensure the effective outcomes of treatment with medicines.
  • Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines.
  • Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the
  optimal use of their medicines.
  • Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication, including the transcription of requests for dispensing.
  • Demonstrate professional accountability to patients.
  • Liaise with the Lead Directorate Pharmacist to provide and develop clinical pharmacy services to the Directorate including ward pharmacy and medicines management.
• Aim to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in the patients as allocated.
  • Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients’ pharmaceutical needs to other
  pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care environments.
  • Demonstrate and apply general pharmaceutical knowledge, and where applicable, specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge in core areas
  in order to plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes for patients allocated, thereby ensuring the quality of patient
  care.
  • Work across traditional boundaries, including the transcription of discharge medication.
  • Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds for the Neonatal Unit, Paediatrics and others within the directorate where appropriate, to
  integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant level.
  • Provide and be competent to formulate and assure stability of parenteral nutrition solutions for neonatal, paediatric and adolescent
  patients.
  • Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and judgement.
  • Be readily available and keen to answer any general medicine related pharmaceutical queries from patients, pharmacists and other
  members of staff within pharmacy as well as from other health care professionals including medical staff.
  • Proactively provide advice and information on any pharmaceutical issues within the Women & Children’s directorate to pharmacy staff
  and other healthcare professionals as needed.
  • Demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trust’s Clinical Governance Agenda.
  • Support the maintenance and development of Medication Management Initiatives including use of patients own medicines and selfmedication.