About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) services. In this key post you will be working as part of an established multidisciplinary team and be responsible for providing a high quality pharmacy service with IBD.
The successful candidate will be expected to work Monday - Friday and participate in weekend (Saturday and Sundays) and Bank Holiday rotas.
Main duties of the job
As an enthusiastic, patient-centred Pharmacist, you will combine expert clinical knowledge with exemplary professional practice to enhance patient care and support the continued development of our Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) service.
Working at the forefront of the IBD multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will play a key role in implementing, delivering, and continuously improving medicines optimisation and management for patients with IBD. Your responsibilities will include medicines reconciliation, promoting and undertaking medication reviews, and supporting the discharge process to facilitate high-quality patient outcomes. Through these activities, you will help reduce prescribing errors, optimise treatment, and ensure patient safety.
About us
The London North West Hospitals NHS Trust consists of Northwick Park and St Mark's hospitals in Harrow, Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, and Ealing Hospital. Between Northwick Park, St Mark's and Central Middlesex Hospitals we care for more than half a million people living across Brent and Harrow as well as patients from all over the country and internationally at St Mark's, our specialist hospital for bowel diseases. This makes us one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the capital.
The Pharmacy Department offers comprehensive pharmaceutical services across site including a well-respected clinical pharmacy service supported by a dedicated TDM pharmacist, specialist clinical pharmacists and a well-equipped Medicines Information centre integrated into the Regional Medicines Information Centre. A large licensed 'specials' manufacturing unit complements these services.
We are a department that believe in equipping our Band 7 Pharmacists with skills to carry out senior roles to aid their career progression. Posts have been developed to ensure leadership roles are key with a high emphasis on delivering teaching and training to a wide range of healthcare professionals as well as managing teams. You will be able to develop senior roles and responsibilities and we encourage individuals to take on any new responsibilities to meet their development needs.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information on the key responsibilities and person requirements for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Master in Pharmacy Degree Evidence of Continuing Professional Development Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
Desirable
Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent diploma RPS membership Independent prescribing qualification
Experience Essential
Some experience in specialist field of practice Experience in providing / supporting a pharmaceutical service to wards and departments Previous experience in delivering training and education
Desirable
Experience of working within a range of clinical specialities Change management, audit and therapeutic review, critical appraisal experience
Skills Essential
Clinical pharmacy skills- demonstrates good clinical reasoning and judgment, manages difficult and ambiguous problems IT literate, including word processing, email and use of internet to search for evidence based medicine, knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages Ability to priorities a complex workload and to work accurately under pressure Enthusiasm /positive attitude, professional image and good team worker/ player
Desirable
Evaluation skills
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Address Central Middlesex Hospital
Acton lane
London
NW10 7NS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lnwh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)