We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced clinical pharmacist to join our pharmacy team. You will effectively lead a team of highly specialist pharmacy staff to deliver patient-centred pharmaceutical care to the medical patients across the Royal London Hospital.

The postholder will be expected to lead the clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department (ED), Acute Medical wards, General Medical wards and Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) in providing responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing within the networks to:

• Optimise patient outcomes
• Minimise adverse reactions
• Improve medicines safety

The postholder will help to deliver the broader Medicines Optimisation and Governance Strategy across the Royal London Hospital and other Barts Health Hospitals. These outcomes will be achieved primarily through leadership of clinical staff, and the publicationand implementation of guidelines and procedures to encourage best practice.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Associate Director of Pharmacy and Deputy Head of Pharmacy at RLH & MEH and Highly Specialist Pharmacists within the team to manage the professional, clinical, and technical input of pharmacy into the areas listed above at the Royal London Hospital and provide professional support for the pharmacy medicine teams across all the Barts Health Hospital sites.

The post holder will work closely with the multidisciplinary team and oversee clinical pharmacy service and medicines use within the following areas:

• Emergency Department (including Same Day Emergency Care)
• Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS)
• Acute Medical Wards
• General Medical Wards

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

• Extensive post registration hospital experience
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care
• Ability to undertake and facilitate quality improvement, reflective practice, teaching and CPD
• Experience appraising staff and giving feedback
• Experience as a clinical pharmacy tutor, presenter or lecturer
• Significant experience of working as a clinical pharmacy practitioner in an acute hospital NHS setting
• Operational management of a service to a substantial teaching hospital or District General Hospital (DGH)
• Experience of successfully leading and supervising research, quality and/or service improvement or audit / change projects
• Planning and implementing significant service developments and organisational change
• Experience of managing large groups of staff
• Experience of managing a budget
• Ability to understand complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions

Desirable

• Successful performance as a directorate / team leader Medicine pharmacist in a previous post.
• Experience of working in outpatient clinics

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• 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
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
• 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
• Good team worker

Desirable

• Experience in local implementation of national standards and guidelines

Knowledge

Essential

• Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
• Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
• Excellent clinical and managerial critical appraisal skills enabling effective decision making relating to the adoption of new therapies
• Effective problem solving skills and good analytical & organisational ability
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills
• Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
• Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
• Understanding of stock control systems
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs of medical patients, including knowledge of the medication issues at the interface of primary and secondary care.
• An awareness of current national standards, guidelines & service delivery issues relevant to medical patients
• Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
• Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
• A sound knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level
• Knowledge of the key literature relating to pharmacy practice
• Demonstrated expert knowledge covering a range of services

Desirable

• A sound knowledge of drugs and therapeutics at MSc level

Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Post Graduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum Post graduate Diploma level)

Desirable

• Independent Prescribing Qualification or willing to undergo training to become an IP
• Management qualification or equivalent experience

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

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259-6751170RLH-A