Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Immunoglobulins and East Midlands SRIAP

1 month ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic pharmacist to join our well-established medicines finance team for a 9 month secondment. The role offers development opportunities around medicines finance/commissioning, procurement, project management, working with colleagues at local/regional/national level whilst maintaining specialist clinical pharmacy skills.

You will work closely alongside the Lead Pharmacist: High Cost Medicines Management and wider HCM/immunoglobulins team, whilst also linking with the wider medicines finance, homecare, procurement, ICT and specialist clinical teams.

You will act as Specialist Pharmacist for immunoglobulins at NUH and the EM-SRIAP. NUH are the Lead (Hub) Trust in the East Midlands for managing the safe and appropriate use of immunoglobulins and host the EM-SRIAP, mandated by NHS England to provide governance and assurance over immunoglobulin use in the region.

What we offer:

Supportive and friendly team of colleagues covering a wide range of expertise.

Opportunity to lead on the management of a specialist medicine across a number of clinical specialties and act as the Professional Secretary for both the NUH IAP and EM-SRIAP.

Support to advance your specialist knowledge of high cost drugs, commissioning, medicines finance and implementation of medicines value schemes.

Opportunity to apply and further develop clinical pharmacy expertise, through delivering clinical pharmacy services to a defined area.

Main duties of the job

In addition to this summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification.

Key Responsibilities:

Specialist Pharmacist for Immunoglobulins at NUH and the East Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel (EM-SRIAP), including:

Support the oversight of immunoglobulin usage across the East Midlands and act as the Professional Secretary for the East Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel.

Provide specialist clinical pharmacist oversight of the management of immunoglobulins across NUH, in line with national commissioning criteria, governance arrangements, product allocations, and nationally mandated reporting requirements.

Act as Professional Secretary to the NUH Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel.

To line manage and support the EM-SRIAP Co-Ordinator and the Pharmacy Immunoglobulin & Reimbursement Scheme Officer.

Partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken whilst delivering against the NUH medicines optimisation strategy.

Provide support to the High Cost Medicines Team on a regular basis, and the wider Medicines Finance Team as necessary. Support the team with implementation of medicines value schemes.

You will be required to partake in general clinical pharmacy duties, work across both City Hospital and QMC campuses of NUH and to take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties and senior support rota for the on-call pharmacist

About us

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has a national and international reputation for many of its specialist services and expertise. We have achieved a national and international reputation for many of our specialist services including stroke, renal, neurosciences, cancer services and trauma. We are also at the forefront of many research programmes and new surgical procedures. As a teaching Trust we have a strong relationship with our colleagues at the University of Nottingham and other universities across the East Midlands. We play a vital role in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Further information about NUH NHS Trust can be found on the NUH website.

Twitter: Follow us @NUHPharmacy

Job description

Job responsibilities

The ideal candidate will be a highly capable, dynamic clinical pharmacist with a broad experience of working in the hospital sector and an enthusiasm to be involved with the complex, specialist and ever developing area of immunoglobulins and high cost medicines.

Specialist knowledge around immunoglobulins, high cost medicines and commissioning pathways would be preferable, however full support would be given to advance the development and knowledge base of an appropriate candidate.

Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Someone who can work well independently whilst also being an active team player.

Experience in project work and implementation of changes to prescribing practice, including MDT working.

Experience in collating, analysing and presenting complex clinical/financial data.

Please see the attached detailed job description and person specification for further details.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

/BSc (Pharmacy)/MPharm/MSc or equivalent Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate experience Demonstrates continued professional development

Desirable

Related postgraduate qualification Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Leadership and management training Independent prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy Experience of risk management and clinical governance processes Experience of audit work Experience of developing and implementing action plans to introduce a new service/service change Experience of developing and implementing specialty-wide policies and procedures/guidelines with pharmacy, nursing and medical teams

Desirable

Experience of managing clinical and/or governance aspects around immunoglobulins Experience as professional secretary to a clinical governance group or committee Experience of medicines finance issues (eg cost containment schemes) Knowledge of national/regional funding and commissioning pathways for high cost medicines

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

Strong, accurate and concise written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills Able to receive, summarise, communicate and present information to a wide range of professionals Effective independent and team working skills, including ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams Proven persuasion and negotiation skills (to influence prescribing), tact and diplomacy skills

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential

Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information Proven problem solving approach on a wide range of clinical issues, and able to think laterally to develop new ideas Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management

Desirable

Experience of analysing complex financial or clinical data Medicines Information skills

Planning and organisation skills

Essential

Able to prioritise, plan, co-ordinate, develop and adjust services Able to manage own and others time effectively and to work to deadlines even when under pressure. Flexibility to deal with competing demands and interruptions Self-motivated, organised, confident, accurate and assertive

Desirable

Management/Leadership skills

Physical skills

Essential

Physical Effort: The post holder will frequently be required to exert light physical effort and may sit for long periods of time using IT equipment or meeting staff. Mental Effort: The post holder may experience unpredictable workload with some extremely busy periods with lots of background noise/distractions. Constant concentration is required for accurate work ICT skills; Good level of computer literacy and word processing skills. Sound Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills and able to retrieve information from the Internet.

Desirable

Evidence of application of Microsoft office suite applications beyond basic utilisation. Evidence of business intelligence software knowledge

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential

Well motivated, conscientious and reliable Professional, credible, accountable, responsible and confident Prepared to work flexible hours over 7 day shifted pattern of work

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential

Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards

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