Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom North Middlesex University Hospital Full time

Job overview

Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence with efficient, safe and compassionate care. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacist with vision and leadership skills to join the Trust as part of the Critical Care team and lead on the trust formulary.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced, capable with teaching and clinical skills. They will have good interpersonal, leadership and managerial skills. You should possess a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent; have hospital pharmacy experience in critical care.

Main duties of the job

To manage, deliver, develop and monitor the pharmacy critical care service in the Trust working along side the wider MDT.  To develop and maintain the web based hospital formulary, netFormulary in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines information  To provide training in critical care skills to clinical staff. To act as a trainee pharmacist tutor/ diploma mentor when requested by the E&T Lead. To co-ordinate and contribute to writing/checking pharmacy information bulletins. To be responsible for providing a highly specialist service to critical care by ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety/ governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines. Be responsible for advising in this area, managing drug budget and for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service provided to this area. Provide a regular ward pharmacy commitment and provide a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services including training and implementation of relevant policies and risk management initiatives. Provide support as requested to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicines management programme. Regularly lead on / initiates / contributes to relevant practice research or audit projects within the Pharmacy and to publish the results of such work, as appropriate. 

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role. 

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

MRPharmS or equivalent and registered with GPhC Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice

Desirable criteria

Independent Non-Medical prescribing qualification Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Management qualification or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Relevant Hospital Experience Relevant staff Management experience CRC experience Ability to manage and supervise staff Leading and Implementing change Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure Understanding of Formulary & DUR and clinical trial issues Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process

Desirable criteria

Project Management Experience

Experience

Essential criteria

Ability to critically review services and Processes Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace Ability to work unsupervised and alone Management experience Integrate research evidence into practice Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required Use of search engines/medical dataKnowledge of the requirements of national organisations involved in critical carebases to retrieve information

Desirable criteria

Formulary Experience Experience in carrying out Literature Evaluations Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to work under pressure Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy maybe contentious or complex Ability to innovate and implement change Ability to carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysis Computer literate Ability to lead service Ability to motivate, influence and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team and management. Ability to work with the colleagues as part of a team Ability to resolve conflict Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators pro-actively Demonstrate analytical and reasoning skills

Other attributes

Essential criteria

Flexibility with regard to changes in work Schedule Able to work flexible and unsocial hours including Late duties , Weekend duties and bank holidays as rostered Able to do participate in out of hours service Enthusiasm Awareness of Equal Opportunities

Values

Essential criteria

Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your  identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to NMUH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from , and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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