Location: Western Health and Social Care Trust
Directorate: Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer & Clinical Services
Contract and hours: Permanent, Part Time
Positions available:
-
Post 1: Permanent Part-Time (18.75hpw) based in Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry
-
Post 2: Permanent Part-Time (18.75hpw) based in South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen / Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex
Job summary
To lead, manage, co-ordinate, develop and deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services for older people living within care homes across the WHSCT.
To assume pharmaceutical responsibility for individuals residing within care homes.
Main responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Provide expert opinion on all matters relating to medicines in older people within Care Homes Care in WHSCT locality, to ensure the safe and effective delivery of drug therapy and management of older people.
- Lead, develop and implement a clinical pharmacy service to older patients with complex medicines management needs as they reside within the Care Home setting and at times when they move between the primary / secondary care interfaces.
- Be responsible for medicines optimisation for older people with complex medicines needs to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines to enable the best possible outcomes.
- Monitor the outcomes from the pharmaceutical interventions and act accordingly.
- Work closely with the Consultant Pharmacist to deliver on priority areas for action e.g. medicines and falls, antipsychotic prescribing in people with dementia, bone protection, pain management, reducing drug-related ED admissions etc.
- Lead and develop communication/referral pathways between the Care Home/primary care and the secondary care pharmaceutical services for patients discharged from hospital or identified as requiring additional pharmaceutical care support or review in a clinic setting.
- Build access to and referral from a broad range of older people’s services and be seen as a resource for teams within Primary Care and Older Peoples Directorate pathways e.g. rapid access clinics, older people assessment liaison services, outreach services.
- Gather feedback from hospital, community, GP pharmacists, physicians, nurses and AHPs to inform further redesign and development of the pharmaceutical care needs of older people residing within care homes across the secondary/ primary care interface.
- Link with and develop pharmaceutical models to enable integration with the voluntary and private sectors. Involve service users in the development of pharmaceutical case management within these settings and across the interface using personal and public involvement initiatives.
- Work closely with both the Consultant Pharmacist and specialist pharmacists for older people to develop, deliver training and guidance to promote medicines optimisation.
- Share and disseminate learning from older patients with complex medicines needs to the wider network and beyond.
- Work as an independent non-medical prescriber for a group of vulnerable complex older people within the Trust area, within a supporting governance framework, with access to appropriate clinical information, systems and prescribing within the primary and secondary care setting. Support other non-medical prescribers to develop their competencies in this area.
- Proactively develop good working relationships with community/GP pharmacists, care home staff/ Intermediate Care staff/GPs and care home support teams within the allocated network e.g. through attending and contributing to meetings, local launch of guidelines etc.
- Develop research methodology to measure the impact of the service. This will include recording of pharmaceutical interventions and recommendations at each stage of the patient’s journey.
- Develop, embed and provide new services and evaluate the service against agreed outcomes...
For complete details view the full job description in the Additional Information section below.
