An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced pharmacist to play a pivotal role in our service for patients within Women's Health, Children and Young People including Simmons House (Tier 4 CAMHS), community services relating to these areas at Whittington Health NHS trust & providing education and training support within Whittington.

The post holder will work closely both with our pharmacy team and the Women's and Children multidisciplinary teams to:

• Provide and further develop high value clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to Women and Children areas
• Contribute to the Women and Children's MDTs through multiple training sessions
• Input into clinical guidelines, PGD development and service improvement work.
• Work across the hospital-community interface to improve medicines management on transfer of care and improve patient safety.
• Develop integrated working with the community services providing pharmacy support to services including health visitors, community midwives, paediatric services and schools.

The post holder will also be supporting the education and training of undergraduate pharmacy students, pharmacy staff and the wider MDT. They will be pivotal in the development of new roles that link academia and the department e.g. Teacher practitioner roles as well as workforce recruitment with attendance at fairs and schools.

There are excellent opportunities for quality improvement, audit & research and for personal development.

Main duties of the job

For additional information regarding the main duties, please see the attached job description and person specification.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm (or equivalent)
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Independent Prescriber
• Member of relevant professional clinical groups (e.g. NPPG)
• Leadership or Management qualification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Excellent organisational skills - themselves and others
• Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing).
• Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
• Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members
• Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments and to articulate their role in this process
• Ability to implement and manage change.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work.
• Experience of providing pharmacy services in a broad, wide ranging manner relating to Paediatrics and Women's Health
• Experience of financial management of medicines expenditure within healthcare and specifically a hospital setting.
• Experience as a line manager
• Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and policies
• Significant experience of working in an acute hospital setting
• Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical tutor
• Experience of supporting the clinical provision of TPN, through collaborative working with the wider MDT and external production units

Desirable

• An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy
• Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities
• An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting
• Experience of managing and leading a team

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team including commitment to continuing professional development
• Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post and working in the MDT.
• Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda

Desirable

• Ability to articulate their own leadership style

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Whittington Hospital

Magdala Ave

London

N19 5NF

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