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Job Overview
Pharmacist with an interest in Frailty required to cover Monday to Wednesday - 08:00- 16:00pm
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a pharmacist with a special interest in Frailty to join the Integrated Frailty Liaison Team at Wexham Park Hospital permanently.
This is a role in which you can develop your specialist pharmacy skillset and advance your clinical skills work working closely with the acute frailty Liaison Team.
As a Specialist Pharmacist, you will spend time in a patient-facing role enhancing your clinical skills. You will gain experience in treating a range of complex patients with multiple co-morbidities. You will work closely with the rest of the clinical pharmacy team, with access to a range of specialist pharmacists.
Frailty team is at the forefront of aligning with the national strategy for improving upon the existing processes involved in the identification of frailty and in the coordination of care between different Community and hospital teams to deliver better experiences and outcomes for our patients.
Main duties of the job
- The Frailty Service provides a front door assessment service including the development of comprehensive geriatric assessments and complex care plans to support admission avoidance, reduce length of stay and avoid unnecessary readmissions for individuals living with frailty.
- To provide high quality innovative clinical practice , be proactive in clinical decision making, underpinned by an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge, and be able to demonstrate improved patient care outcomes.
- Our service is 7 days a week and you will be part of the Pharmacy On-call service.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- For further information about this role please see the Job Description document attached.
- If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy degree
- Non Medical Prescriber
- Diploma on Pharmacy
- Registered with GPhC
- Advanced physical assessment or willing to undertake
Desirable criteria
- MSc or higher degree
- Project management
- UKCPA membership
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of producing guidelines
- Experience of producing drug appraisals
- Experience of managing staff
- Significant post qualification experience working as a pharmacist
Desirable criteria
- Regular experience of providing clinical pharmacy support to Frailty.
- Clinical audit experience.
- Teaching/tutoring experience
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to adapt and cope with challenges
- Applied clinical knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Excellent IT skills
- Evidence of interest in research
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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