Specialist Renal Pharmacist

Job summary

The pharmacy department at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and passionate pharmacist join the Renal and Transplant pharmacy team. The adult renal unit at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is the largest renal transplant centre in the South West and provides renal replacement therapies across seven satellite haemodialysis units.

This post will give the successful candidate an excellent opportunity to work within the highly integrated multi-professional renal team. The successful candidate will assist in the provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical care across both inpatient and outpatient services, and work to support the medicines optimisation agenda in both primary and secondary care.

The post holder will be supported to attain their non-medical prescribing qualification if not yet undertaken.

The successful postholder will work closely with a collaborative and engaged multi-professional team to deliver outstanding services. They will have a close and supportive network around them.

• To support the Renal and Transplant pharmacy team in maintaining and developing the pharmaceutical service to the specialty.
• Provide a high-level clinical service to Renal and Transplant patients
• Work in close collaboration with the ward team to ensure patient flow and timely discharge
• To assist the highly specialist pharmacists in the delivery of an agreed standard of pharmaceutical care to identified outpatients to ensure the safe and cost-effective use of medicines. This will include the provision of advice to patients, medical and other clinical staff on medicines related issues, and support in the administration of appropriate medicines management systems, including homecare and liaising with healthcare professionals within primary care.
  
  This may include advice on highly complex medicines and chronic disease states.
• To assist the highly specialist pharmacists in the management of the renal medicines expenditure via regular analysis and medication use audits to identify and manage CIP savings.
• Actively participate in audit, research and development with the speciality and the pharmacy department. Where appropriate publicise the results of such work through presentations and publications.
• To provide education and training to other healthcare staff as appropriate.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

• In conjunction with the highly specialist renal & transplant pharmacists provide and develop a specialist pharmaceutical service to the Renal & Transplant specialty within the Trust.
• Attend speciality meetings and meetings with Specialty and Divisional management teams as required and produce reports on activity as directed.
• Advise on strategies to ensure cost-effective use of resources and be involved with achieving CIP targets. Provide feedback regarding this to prescribers.
• Support achieving general pharmacy and appropriate specialist CQUIN targets.
• To support the highly specialist renal & transplant pharmacists to help progress the pharmacoeconomics element of the service.
• Record and investigate incidents in line with Trust procedures.
• Record clinical Pharmacy activity in line with departmental procedures.
• Audit and risk manage selected areas of practice to promote continuous quality improvement as required by the Division, Pharmacy department or the Trust.

• Clinically screen prescriptions to ensure the safe, efficient,…