Experience

Babylon

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Head Office Pharmacist

  • Sep 2021 - Present



Willows Health (NHS)

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Clinical Pharmacist

  • Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Undertaking clinical medication reviews remotely and face-to-face, to ensure patients are managed safely and effectively and repeat prescriptions are up to date. - Running patient facing long term condition clinics e.g. Asthma/COPD reviews. - Managing caseload for patients with minor ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence and dealing with acute prescription requests. Signposting where appropriate. - Working with the team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards relating to medicines. - Answering all medicine‐related enquiries and concerns from patients, GPs, and other healthcare professionals – via telephone and face to-face. - Managing high-risk drugs and repeat reauthorisation processes ensuring patients are booked in for necessary monitoring. - Medicines safety - Implementing changes from MHRA alerts and other local and national guidance. - Monitoring practice prescribing against local guidelines, providing bulletins on important messages. - Risk stratification of patients at high risk of harm/hospital admission from medicines through pre-prepared computer searches including the ECLIPSE prescribing system. - Participating in clinical tutorials and presenting case-based discussions to ensure meeting all framework competencies in numerous clinical areas e.g. Asthma, Anticoagulation, COPD, Depression, Heart failure. - Conducting prescribing audits, sharing results and implementing changes in collaboration with the practice team. - Supporting education and training of practice staff. ACHIEVEMENTS o Provided remote support to allow the safe running of the PCN’s pharmacist–run domiciliary anticoagulation service. o Supporting the practice to achieve QoF targets relating to medicines. o Standardised the medicine reconciliation process across the PCN to reduce discrepancies and improve workflow. o Implemented robust prescribing processes for base practice increasing efficiency. Show less



University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

• United Kingdom
• Medical Practices
• 700 & Above Employee

• Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Prescribed and reviewed medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice. - Advised patients, medical and other clinical staff on any drug element including complex medicines. - Contributed to the management of the directorate drugs budget via regular expenditure analysis feedback and audits. - Counselled patients/carers on the safe and proper use of medicine. - Liaised with primary care professionals to maintain care throughout patient pathway ACHIEVEMENTS o Worked with lead pharmacist and geriatricians to ensure falls prevention actions were met for CQUIN CCG7. o Completed my prescribing course in geriatrics giving me a good insight into history taking, clinical examination skills, and working autonomously. Show less



North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

  • Nov 2016 - Jan 2019

  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Covered a vast range of specialties including: Surgery, Medicine, Woman’s health, and Paediatrics. - Ensured medicines management, reconciliation and dispensing are undertaken in line with Departmental and Trust policies and current legislation. - Undertook medicines utilisation reviews and clinical audits, ensuring prescribing represents best value for money. - Managed and trained pre-registration pharmacists and technical staff. - Delivered on-call service, often dealing with complex queries out-of-hours. Improved my critical thinking skills, clinical reasoning, judgement, and working under pressure. ACHIEVEMENTS o Pioneered the ward transcribing and dispensing pilot which resulted in speeding up discharge times by two hours. o Regularly presented to large cohorts of doctors joining the Trust on common prescribing errors. Show less



Buckinghamshire CCG

• Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

• Pre-registration Pharmacist (novel split placement)

  • Aug 2015 - Jul 2016

  BMI The Chiltern (Private) Hospital, Great Missenden (6 months) Chiltern CCG, Amersham (4 months) Little Chalfont Surgery, Amersham (1 day a week during CCG stent) McParland Pharmacy, Little Chalfont (2 months) KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Wrote shared care protocols and New Medicine Applications to be included on the trust formulary. - Gained proficiency with EMIS, ePACT and ScriptSwitch. - Practice visits with prescribing support pharmacist and dietician. - Attended joint surgeries with GPs and practice nurses. - Patient counselling and responding to minor ailments. ACHIEVEMENTS: o One of the first pre-registration pharmacists in the country to train in primary care which led to successful pilot and wider rollout of training programme. An article sharing my experience was published in the JoPM. o Reviewed and updated the Buckinghamshire joint formulary to reduce variation in prescribing. o Saved the NHS ~£50,000 by producing cost-saving interventions around prescribing of Omega-3 fatty acids. o Reviewed a care home patient with AKI and presented the case to my CCG colleagues who found it very informative. o Undertook methotrexate monitoring audit to see if practice was meeting monitoring guidelines. This led to the creation of an individualised methotrexate monitoring care plan that could be applied to all DMARDs to improve patient safety. Show less



University of East Anglia

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Science Student Guide

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2015

  - Achieved a reputable status of being a very professional, educational and friendly guide during open days. - My personality makes me good at talking to strangers, building quick relationships and gaining trust. I often gave the prospective students encouragement and advice tailored to their needs. - Achieved a reputable status of being a very professional, educational and friendly guide during open days. - My personality makes me good at talking to strangers, building quick relationships and gaining trust. I often gave the prospective students encouragement and advice tailored to their needs.



Boots UK

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Dispenser

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

  - Improved my dispensing, counselling and responding to symptoms skills. I solved patients' problems and adjusted my approach to meet their individual needs. - Five-week summer placement further reinforced my decision to work in hospital. - Working as in an extremely busy flagship store taught me to effectively prioritise under pressure. - Improved my dispensing, counselling and responding to symptoms skills. I solved patients' problems and adjusted my approach to meet their individual needs. - Five-week summer placement further reinforced my decision to work in hospital. - Working as in an extremely busy flagship store taught me to effectively prioritise under pressure.



Novartis

• Switzerland
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Novartis Summer Research Student

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2013

  - Improved and expanded my knowledge of laboratory skills and techniques. - Allowed me to investigate the different aspects of science further and build a bridge between the academic and practical aspect of my studies. - Gained independence within the lab. - The project involved developing molecules to interact with DNA i-motif. I learnt techniques such as fluorescence/UV-vis titrations, FRET analysis, high pressure liquid chromatography and NMR spectrometry. - Improved and expanded my knowledge of laboratory skills and techniques. - Allowed me to investigate the different aspects of science further and build a bridge between the academic and practical aspect of my studies. - Gained independence within the lab. - The project involved developing molecules to interact with DNA i-motif. I learnt techniques such as fluorescence/UV-vis titrations, FRET analysis, high pressure liquid chromatography and NMR spectrometry.