Band 8A Haemostasis Pharmacist

To contribute to the safe and effective use of anticoagulant and haemophilia medicines across the Trust. Key duties include:

• Supporting the safe and effective prescribing of medications for management of inherited and acquired bleeding disorders and anticoagulants including ongoing audit to ensure compliance with guidelines and targets
• Ensuring the cost-effective use of clotting factors and related medication and anticoagulants in line with national and local guidelines
• Contributing to the development of hospital guidelines and protocols
• Teaching and training of healthcare professionals in the safe use of the above medications
• To contribute to the development of PGD’s
• Leading on Homecare delivery of haemophilia/anticoagulation medicines
• Act as expert resource on the use of the above medications

1. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Regular attendance of consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings.
To provide advanced clinical advice regarding all aspects of the use of clotting factors and non-clotting factors for use in inherited and acquired coagulation disorders, and the use of anticoagulants across a wider variety of settings
To contribute to the optimisation of dosing of haemophilia products to ensure cost-effectiveness
Delivery of a high quality, specialist ward-based pharmacy service. This involves taking medication histories from patients admitted to wards, clarifying inconsistencies with the patient’s GP or Community Pharmacist, ensuring appropriate use of patients’ own drugs brought from home, drug supply, review of highly complex medication regimens, clarification of medication changes made during inpatient stay by liaising with the admitting team, drug interaction and adverse drug reaction monitoring, discharge planning and rapid turnaround of TTAs, full medication counselling to patients, and assessment for appropriateness of compliance aids to assist patients’ medication needs.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
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