Ritu Pun

• Working closely with the lead pharmacists, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop pharmacy services and provide best patient's care.
• To support and supervise in the training of pre-registration pharmacist trainees, junior pharmacists and other pharmacy staffs.
• To participate in audit activities.
• Carrying out medicines reconciliation and optimisation review for need of drug selection of appropriate drug therapies, doses, modification of drugs formulation to ease swallowing difficulties, counseling patients and take part in MDT meetings.
• Be able to prioritise appropriately and work effectively depending on service demands.
• To ensure doctors are prescribing within the formulary and encourage cost effective prescribing.
• Participate in-house training development and undertake CPD which is needed by the GPhC.
• To participate in on-call, late duty, weekends and bank holiday rotas as required by the service.

• To advice doctors, nurses and other health care professionals regarding any queries relating to medicines and pharmacy services.
• To provide high quality clinical pharmacy services to both inpatients and discharged patients.
• Able to recognise and manage pharmaceutical needs of the patients and make appropriate referrals when required.
• Ensuring medicine history taking and reconciliation are performed up to standards and meets expectations.
• To support senior pharmacists or managers in the delivery of smooth running of the pharmacy service.
• Attend ward rounds to plan the day to day management and service as a ward pharmacists.
• To actively seek opportunities to improve clinical services on ward.
• To participate in monthly audit of Medication Safety Performance Indicators to reduce medication error and promote safer use of the medicines.
• To support and supervise pharmacy staffs such as assistants, technicians, dispensers and summer placement students.
• To participate in on-call, late duty, weekends and bank holiday rotas as required by the service.

• Carry out medicine reconciliation and patient counseling in line with hospital guidelines.
• Provide dispensary clinical service across the trust and associated organisations such as community hospitals and hospices.
• Provide accuracy checking for the aseptic or non sterile preparation facilities.
• Providing timely, accurate and detailed responses to queries received in Medicine Information.
• Ensure staffs are aware of the current contents of the formulary and assist medical staffs to adjust prescribing practices in line with the evidence base and formulary requirements.
• Work in hand with other healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, nutritionist and physiotherapist to provide best care to patient.
• Participate in weekends, bank holiday and on-call as per rotas.
• Supervise junior pharmacy staffs such as pharmacy assistants, dispensers, technicians and students when allocated to area of responsibility.
• Participate in departmental recording of clinical interventions and Key Performance Indicators.

• Clinically screen prescriptions and dispense efficiently and counsel patient.
• Acting promptly with GP's as well as patient's queries and to chase and collect prescriptions by repeat service.
• Prepare and manage MDS (monitor dosage system)
• Ensure goods received from the suppliers are correct and matched the invoice. To order medicines from the designated supplier after finding out the best deal for any special orders.
• Regular blood pressure and diabetic screening and treating minor ailments.
• Giving information regarding vaccination and malaria prevention to travelers.
• Stop smoking advisor.
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- 2 weeks placements.

Gained invaluable knowledge about over the counter medicines and other products such as vitamins, children health, cough and cold and helped customer with stop smoking cessation. This job also helped me build up skills in team working, communication, time management and ability to work under pressure.

Volunteered during summer holidays between 2012-2013 where I used to hand out prescriptions, dispense prescriptions and organise MDS. I also assist patients with over the counter medications with the supervision of the pharmacist. I got an opportunity to gain understanding of roles and responsibilities of community pharmacy healthcare team.