Whipps Cross Hospital has been a healthcare cornerstone in East London. Serving a vibrant community of over 350,000 people from Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Epping Forest and beyond. Our comprehensive services ranging from general inpatient care to specialised maternity services and a 24/7 Emergency department, ensure that every patient receives care tailored to their needs.

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic pharmacist to join the Pharmacy department at Whipps Cross Hospital. You will work with a team of pharmacy staff to deliver patient centred pharmaceutical care to paediatric and women's health patients across the hospital.

You will work closely with the Women's and Children's pharmacy team across Barts Health and will be responsible for optimising patient flow, medicines safety and patient outcomes and supporting the service in managing the medicines budget and achieving best value for resource. We do this through working closely with the multidisciplinary clinical teams, service management, and wider pharmacy team and demonstrating the Trust WeCare Values.

You will also be expected to contribute to the research agenda working with staff across the Pharmacy department.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry out the full range of duties as a Women's and Children's Highly Specialist Pharmacist to deliver patient focused, quality care, based at Whipps Cross University Hospital (WCUH).

The post holder will be supporting the hospital to deliver high quality clinical pharmacy services to the speciality and ensure that maternity has focused governance and medicines management.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Although this position is a 9 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 9 months.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience of good performance in previous posts
• Previous experience of working within women's and children's providing a pharmacy service to women's and children's wards
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care Experience of supervising and organising staff and work
• Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. pre-registration / junior pharmacists
• Successful experience of managing & leading projects
• Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
• Experience of delivering professional training and education
• Ability to undertake and facilitate quality improvement, reflective practice, teaching and CPD

Desirable

• Experience of providing evaluated information on drug expenditure
• Experience of successfully managing staff

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills.
• Assertive, diplomatic and persuasive with ability to negotiate.
• Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
• Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure
• Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
• Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
• Able to work unsupervised and under pressure
• IT literate able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
• Demonstrates effective customer service skills
• Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones

Desirable

• Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
• Management of risk in the clinical use of medicines
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills
• Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
• Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent.
• Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs of women's and children's patients
• Understanding of stock control systems
• An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to women's and children's patients
• Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
• Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation

Desirable

• Excellent knowledge of the medical management of Women's services patients
• Knowledge of interface issues relevant to the patient group
• Good knowledge of risk management issues relevant to the patient group and root cause analysis
• Awareness of wider NHS policies, e.g. Long Term Plan

Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum postgraduate diploma level)
• Independent prescribing qualification, or willing to undergo training to become a non-medical prescriber

Desirable

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Management qualification or equivalent experience

Other

Essential

• Leads by example, promoting the Bart's health values
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude
• Committed to the continuous development of staff and self.
• Decisive, using sound judgement in decision making in a timely and confident manner
• Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.
• High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations
• Able to move easily between the detail Interest in expanding knowledge an d self-development
• Reliable with good attendance record

Desirable

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and member of Faculty
• Member of NPPG / UKCPA

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Whipps Cross Hospital

London

E11 1NR

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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