To provide medication related advice to patients, focussing on medicines stopped/started or changed in hospital and side effects profiles enabling them to obtain the maximum benefit from their medicines.
To assist in the education and training of pre-registration pharmacists and other staff in training grades.To supervise the daily activities of junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants.
To participate in all activities of the pharmacy dispensary as required, including dispensing, clinical verification of prescriptions, prescription review, accuracy checking of prescriptions and a high quality patient medication consultation service
To provide a high quality ward based clinical pharmacy service, rotating through 4 month rotations in surgery, medicine, complex care and acute admissions. This includes reviewing drug charts for safety and efficiency, drug history taking and medicines reconciliation, medicine supply, patient medication consultations, medicines optimisation services, discharge medication service (DMS) and any other activities associated with medicines management
- 80% Ward work and 20% Dispensary work