Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist for a new service in Trafford - Trafford Community Response (TCR). TCR aims to reduce the need for people to go into hospital by wrapping expert care around them in the community. It’s made up of two main teams - Crisis Response and Discharge to Assess (D2A).The Crisis Response team will work to respond quickly to keep people who are in a crisis at home with expert clinical care, therapy and social support from an expert multi-disciplinary team of… Show more Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist for a new service in Trafford - Trafford Community Response (TCR). TCR aims to reduce the need for people to go into hospital by wrapping expert care around them in the community. It’s made up of two main teams - Crisis Response and Discharge to Assess (D2A).The Crisis Response team will work to respond quickly to keep people who are in a crisis at home with expert clinical care, therapy and social support from an expert multi-disciplinary team of professionals. It will take calls from the ambulance service, primary care and A&E to respond to patients who would otherwise need to go to A&E and into acute hospital care. An emergency service in the community, responding rapidly to keep people safe in their place of residence and avoid hospital admissions. The team will be made up of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, pharmacists, therapists, community nurses, social workers and health care assistants who will provide up to 72 hours of input to stabilise and support before handing over to mainstream community services.When people do need to go to hospital, the D2A team will support them to be discharged as quickly as possible people to remain independent at home and have their ongoing care and assessments at home rather than in a hospital bed. D2A facilitates the discharge of medically fit patients through a team of therapists, pharmacists, community nurses, social workers and health care assistants working together to provide assessments and interventions for up to six weeks. The pharmacy team contains prescribing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians providing medicines reconciliation and review, patient counselling and ensuring effective transfer of care. Patients medicines are optimised with consideration for high riskareas such as:-Frailty, -Polypharmacy and deprescribing-Falls risk-Inhaler technique-Analgesia review and reduction/deprescribing (opiates/GABAs/NSAIDs)-Anticholinergic burden Show less

Programme Lead for Specialist Medicines Optimisation and Therapeutics (SMOT) on Postgraduate Diploma in Clincal Pharmacy

Initially a band 6 role, progressing to a band 7 role - gained experience across a broad range of clinical specialities.

I returned to work at Barretstown as a camp counselor and activities leader on a full time basis during 2018, whilst locuming at MFT in between camps.