Achsah Thomas

- Lead Pharmacist for Perioperative medicine, Theatres and Ophthalmology

- Development of pharmacy service within Perioperative medicine

- Provide expert advice to medical and nursing staff to guide on safe, optimum and cost effective treatments in accordance with local and national guidance

- Medication Reviews and optimisation

- Review prescriptions, challenge treatment choices and communicate complex medication information to senior clinicians, senior managers and other healthcare professionals to ensure compliance with medicines legislation and avoid medication errors and adverse effects.

- Financial analysis of therapeutic drug use in line with national and local cost improvement initiatives

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- Service development projects
- Providing clinical service for wards in area of speciality (medicines reconciliation, clinical checking medicines charts and TTOs )
- Medicines management on wards
- Training and supervising new junior staff
- Training University pharmacy students
- Answering medicines related queries
- Managing team in the absence of Lead pharmacist

Complete accurate medication reconciliation
Clinically check medication charts and discharge scripts
Work independently on wards and during clinical checking sessions in dispensary
Effectively working and communicating with the pharmacy and multi disciplinary team
Supervise pharmacists on wards
Make relevant pharmaceutical interventions
Answer pharmaceutical queries
Medication counselling
Dispensing and accuracy checking medications

- Completing medication histories on wards.
- Ordering medicines for patients on wards.
- Assigning sources to medications on electronic discharge letter.
- Counselling patients on medication.
- Complete a clinical audit project
- Dispensing inpatient orders, discharge medications, and controlled drugs.

-Dispensing temporary stock orders,TTO, controlled drugs.
-Delivering medications to ward and placing patient medications in lockers
- Monitoring fridge temperatures for inpatient, manufacturing unit, Sunderland eye infirmary, and clinical trials.
- Returning stock from wards
- Inputting medications into robot
- Attending the reception and answering the phones