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Location
Jersey | United Kingdom
Job description
1. Lead and manage the development of Clinical Pharmacy Services provided to HCS in order to deliver a high quality, patient-focused service to all patients. 2. Performance manage direct reports, and enable personal and professional development that underpins the strategic direction of Pharmacy Services and HCS and ensures the delivery of a high-quality, clinical service to patients. 3. Implement the strategic direction and consequent development of the Clinical Pharmacy Service and support the delivery of the strategic objectives of the overall Pharmacy Service, to ensure that services meet legislative requirements and best practice standards. 4. Develop, maintain and ensure compliance with local, regional or national standards for Clinical Pharmacy Service provision (professional, legal and ethical) in order to demonstrate the requirements of Clinical Governance. 5. Continuously monitor advances in clinical practice and identify areas for future development to ensure that the service is responsive to changing needs, particularly with regard to the development of Clinical Pharmacy Services. 6. Identify and forecast areas of high drug expenditure, and identify areas of prescribing practice with can be modified in order to decrease expenditure and agree actions with relevant clinicians to achieve this. 7. Identify, co-ordinate the collection of, and critically analyse data required to monitor and evaluate the impact of Clinical Pharmacy Services in order to inform practice and service improvement. 8. Work as a member of the multi-professional health and care teams, providing expert clinical advice and expertise in relation to the use of medicines to peers, patients and management to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered, in order to improve the quality and safety of patient care. 9. Lead and develop clinical pharmacy skills training for all pharmacists, including tutoring of pharmacists studying for a post-graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy. Act as the departmental lead for continuing professional development to ensure that all pharmacy staff are fit to practice. 10. Identify, develop, implement and co-ordinate research and development in clinical pharmacy practice & related medicines management throughout the department, including audit and review all aspects of Clinical Pharmacy Services, in order to develop and change systems of service delivery in line with Pharmacy and HCS objectives.
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Salary
£74.6k - £85.48k per annum
