Job title - Principal Pharmacist 8b - Medicine (maternity leave cover)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and capable pharmacist to lead the pharmacy service provided to medicine and medical specialities. Overseeing the pharmacy service provided to the medical wards including Acute Medical Unit and Adult Assessment Unit, and support to ED, TREAT, Smoking Cessation, and Thoracic services, you will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of medicines reconciliation, optimising the use of medicines and delivering on rapid turnaround of medicines for discharge. You will also lead the service provision to Dermatology, Rheumatology and Immunology and play a key role in ensuring appropriate funding for high-cost drugs in these areas. You will manage a large pharmacy team and be responsible for the ongoing delivery of the service. You will be the trust Pharmacy lead for immunoglobulins and secretary for the trust Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel (IAP).

You will be an experienced and highly motivated pharmacist, with a background in delivering services to medical patients and a proven track record of quality improvement and service development, excellent communication skills and a patient-centred attitude. You should ideally have some experience of managing a team of pharmacists as well as an understanding of funding streams for medicines and be able to manage own and others' workload for this high turnover speciality.

Main duties of the job

To lead the clinical pharmacy service provided to acute medicine and the specialities of rheumatology, dermatology and immunology.

To act as the lead pharmacist for immunoglobulins for the trust and act as the secretary for the trust's IVIG Committee

To work with the relevant stakeholders within the trust, ICS and NHS England to develop new pathways for patient care within medicine / medical specialities

To oversee the provision of a ward based clinical pharmacy service including medicines reconciliation and rapid turnaround of discharge prescriptions

To ensure the cost effective use of drugs including ensuring appropriate funding is in place for high cost drugs

Development and implementation of local and national guidelines including any NICE appraised drugs

Managing a large pharmacy team including recruitment and selection, setting of objectives and appraisals.

Training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals within medicine

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Trust is one of the largest in the UK, with around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This large-scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients. With many specialities including cancer, renal, liver, oncology, infectious disease, haemophilia and scleroderma which are underpinned by a strong research agenda, the Royal Free is renowned for providing excellent patient care.

The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service across all three sites, with clinical teams across many different specialities including renal, liver, oncology, paediatrics, intensive care, medicine and surgery. The pharmacy department have recently played a pivotal role in the implementation of electronic prescribing system and have proposals in place for the development of more consultant and independent prescribing pharmacists. The medicine pharmacy team provide a responsive pharmacy service to the medical wards including the Acute Medicine Unit and Adult Assessment Unit.

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 & professional Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent
• Non-medical prescriber

Desirable

• Advanced qualification in specialist area
• Member of RPS

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Experience

Essential

• Significant demonstrable experience of working in hospital based pharmacy, and significant experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist and some experience of working withing medicine/medical specialties
• Experience working with high cost drugs and commissioning processes
• Experience working as a Band 7/8a hospital pharmacist
• Experience of managing & leading staff and projects
• Experience of managing change and leading service developments
• Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure.
• Experience of writing / implementing clinical guidelines and government directives
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Evidence of clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence based practice
• Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
• Experience in delivering education and training.
• Experience as a clinical pharmacy tutor

Desirable

• Experience of working in clinics and/or prescribing and monitoring medicines

Skills and aptitudes

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills when dealing with staff and patients
• Good presentation skills
• Excellent teaching and training skills
• Ability to carry out day to day responsibilities and deal effectively with unpredictable/acute demands.
• Ability to justify and reason any advice given should this be challenged
• Ability to communicate with patients/carers and staff of all levels.
• Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, and the management team
• Ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver timely outcomes
• Ability to work alone and a part of a team
• Ability to work accurately under pressure.
• Ability to integrate in a multidisciplinary forum.
• Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous situations
• Demonstrates innovation and strategic thinking
• Ability to motivate and act as a role model
• Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving.
• Ability to identify and implement best practice
• Ability to identify and manage risk
• Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and pharmaceutical care skills
• Critical appraisal skills
• Expert level of clinical reasoning and judgement
• Ability to take full responsibility for and be accountable for own actions
• Ability to contribute to business plans, policies and clinical protocols
• Understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance
• Understanding of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to patients in Medicine
• Understanding of NHS national and local priorities
• Understanding of processes and commissioning of high cost drugs
• Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focussed approach to work
• Computer literate (including word processing, email & use of internet. Preferably knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages)

Desirable

• Undertakes own research

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Free Hospital

Pond Street

London

NW3 2QG

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391-RFL-6324543-B