About this role
Job summary
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. 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.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledge of the medicines optimisation agenda.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Pharmacist for Rheumatology / Gastroenterology (including endoscopy),
Is responsible for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service to these speciality areas.Is responsible for providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy practice and being a pharmacy role model.Is responsible for providing highly specialist service to Rheumatology, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Service for in and outpatients and day cases e.g. bespoke Medicine Management schemes.Is responsible for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety - clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines and advises on drug budget management in these areasProvides support as required to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicine information services and medicines management programme.Assists in planning and delivery of education and training within the pharmacy department and Rheumatology, Gastroenterology and other areas as appropriate.Carries out pharmacy practice research and clinical audit in this area of practice.Manages the pharmacy team working in this speciality area.
About us
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the topFor more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications Essential
MPharm or equivalent Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent Independent non medical prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it Good Clinical Practice
Desirable
Advanced qualification in specialist area or equivalent Management qualification or equivalent experience
Skills and abilities Essential
Ability to work under pressure Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills Computer literate Ability to innovate and implement change Computer literate Ability to carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysis Ability to lead service Ability to motivate, influence and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team and management. Ability to work with other 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 Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy maybe contentious or complex
Knowledge Essential
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 Project Management Experience
Experience Essential
Relevant Hospital Pharmacy experience, including recent clinical/ward pharmacy experience Gastroenterology, Rheumatology and endoscopy Hospital Pharmacy experience Ability to critically review services and Processes Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace Ability to work unsupervised and alone Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required Use of search engines/medical databases to retrieve information Relevant staff management experience Integrate research evidence into practice Project management experience Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice Understanding of Formulary & DUR issues
Desirable
Performance Management experience
Personal qualities Essential
Enthusiastic, well motivated, hardworking, punctual Identifies own training needs; actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice Flexibility to work weekends, Bank Holidays, late duties and oncall and potential 7 day working Reliable with good attendance record
Values Essential
Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
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.
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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 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Address North Middlesex University Hospital
Sterling Way
London
N18 1QX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)