About this role
Job summary
Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team, with a salary up to £62,000 on offer.
This is a full-time, Monday to Sunday role (08:00 20:00)
There is a requirement to work 1 set of night shifts (3/4 shifts) every 3-4 weeks (20:00 08:00).
Patient safety is at the heart of all our pharmacy services. At Cleveland Clinic London, well be using automation, unique to the UK, digital infrastructure, secure storage systems, and bar-coded medicines administration to achieve a closed loop medicines administration system. Our Pharmacy services will enable patients to be fully involved in their own care and to make shared decisions about their treatment.
Main duties of the job
Support the development, validation, and maintenance of the clinical and medicines related guidelines and protocols.
Supervise junior staff members in the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service, and where necessary to assume responsibility for specialist clinical service.
Work with multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure that medicines prescribed for patients represent the safest treatment option.
Provide high quality advice and counselling to patients to support medicines optimisation.
Assist with the management of complaints and take corrective actions as appropriate.
About us
Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.
Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.
With over 100 years of history, our Patients First philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.
Job description Job responsibilities
Develop and implement clinical strategies
Leading the planning and implementation of assigned projects as per project timelines.
Resource planning
Quality assurance
Carrying out risk assessments
Managing project administration, including all documentation.
Reporting regularly to senior management
Tracking project performance
Project evaluations and results measurement
Day to day support in various pharmacy areas
Clinical responsibilities
Support the development, validation and maintenance of the clinical and medicines related guidelines and protocols
Support the development of clinical pharmacy training programs
Provide day-to-day clinical pharmacy services for defined clinical areas
Supervise junior staff members in the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service, and where necessary to assume responsibility for specialist clinical service.
Work with multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure that medicines prescribed for patients represent the safest treatment option
Assure timely and effective provision of medicines for our patients
Assure safe and secure medicines management practice in clinical areas
Provide high quality advice and counselling to patients in order to support medicines optimisation
Support best practice and delivery of high quality care
Support and provide on-call services and support the Pharmacy team for the night shifts.
Support departmental and hospital audits, service evaluations and research
Support Pharmacy and other multidisciplinary staff to meet their medicines-related educational and development needs
Assist with the management of complaints and take corrective actions as appropriate.
Key Results Areas
Undertaking specific role related competencies and learning, ensuring 100% compliance of all relevant mandatory training
Promote and support the development and implementation of evidence based practice for all staff
Assist with clinical pharmacy training programs
Contribute to the development, promotion, implementation and monitoring of departmental and multidisciplinary policies and initiatives
Compliance with the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Key Performance Indicators.
Develop and coordinate activities relating to Pharmacy key performance indicators including a program and schedule of audits and continuous improvement activities to monitor performance, productivity and adherence to Policies and Procedures
Promote and maintain effective communication as well as disseminate information related to practice development
Work in accordance with Cleveland Clinic Londons values and mission statement by modelling optimal behaviour and values.
Health, Safety and Security
Be accountable for and ensure own competence in practice
Maintain patient and business confidentiality at all times
Assist in promoting Pharmacy practice and care delivery in line with relevant research and evidence base and according to policies and guidelines
Identify potential risks for all staff, patients and visitors and adhere to relevant incident reporting procedures
Ensure the safe custody of drugs in accordance with policy and legal requirements
Compliance with all Infection Prevention and Control policies and procedures understanding your role in the prevention of infection in patients and staff
Service Improvement
Participate in and live new developments
Participate in the development, implementation and monitoring of pharmacy practice standards, guidelines, protocols, policies and care pathways
Participate and support medicines management related innovation
Provide input to ad hoc initiatives and projects as required
Other
To maintain an active and compliant programme of CPD in accordance with hospital guidelines or relevant professional registration body
Support dispensary staff where needed
Adhere to relevant Finance related policies including authorisations and billing
Work with relevant pharmacy staff and ward managers in managing stock
Any other duties commensurate with the role or at the request of the Pharmacy Leadership team.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Completion of a masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent). Post graduate clinical diploma in clinical pharmacy (hospital) or equivalent experience. Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
Experience Essential
Experience of working in a hospital, and of project related work in this environment. Demonstrable evidence of competence in general clinical practice, including medicine and surgery.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Cleveland Clinic London
Address Cleveland Clinic
33 Grosvenor Place
London
SW1X 7HY
Employer's website https://jobs.clevelandclinic.org/ (Opens in a new tab)