Job overview

The post holder is responsible for providing a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients in their own homes or care homes in the Calderdale and Huddersfield area this may be as part of the Hospital at Home (H@H), Urgent Community response Team (UCR) or the wider Community Division.  

The post holder will be an integral part of the Community Division Pharmacy team and work seamlessly between primary and secondary care and link with a range of healthcare professionals to optimise concordance and compliance with prescribed medication.

For the purpose of this post all patients who are accepted to the Community caseload and are registered with a GP in Calderdale or Huddersfield may be reviewed, they may also be referred directly from CHFT staff or Gateway to Care when concerns about medication that might increase chances of admission or readmission are identified. Patients may be on high-risk medication or complex regimes.

Main duties of the job

• Review medication and work closely with Community Teams
• Ensure patients are able to derive the maximum benefit from prescribed medication.
• Participates in MDT meetings.
• Liaise with GPs and community pharmacists to ensure that medicines are reconciled following transfer to primary care. Identify and follow up any discrepancies.
• To communicate with GPs, community pharmacies and hospital consultants any recommendations in respect to individual patient medication changes,
•  To provide pharmaceutical counselling to patients in the domiciliary care setting in order to improve concordance and compliance with medicines and to reduce risks from medication related events.
• To work in an independent manner to explore all ways of supporting patients with complex medication issues.
• To work in partnership with the patient, carers and relatives to reflect patient choice, to support self-care.
•  Work closely with Hospital at Home and UCR teams within CHFT and key personnel in the community in Calderdale and Huddersfield.
• To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with the appropriate healthcare professionals and other agencies in primary and secondary care.
• Work with the Community team to develop the service and provide training to staff
• Visits patients as a lone worker in their own homes or care homes.
• Participates in weekend, public holiday, out of hours and extended hours provision of pharmacy services

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. 

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.