Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day and Bank Holiday working applies)
- Job ref
- 213-CAY-6789652-A
- Employer
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's College Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 per annum, including HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Pharmacist - Planned Medicine
Band 8b
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic pharmacist to lead the Planned Medicine team on a fixed term basis (12 months). This post is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the pharmacy service to the following outpatient specialities: Allergy, Immunology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, Diabetes and Endocrine. This role leads a team of pharmacists who are responsible for the different clinical specialities across both the Denmark Hill and South Sites:
Specialist Pharmacist: Dermatology/Allergy and Immunology
2 Specialist Pharmacists: Rheumatology
1.5 Specialist Pharmacists: Diabetes
The successful candidate must have excellent communication, organisation and leadership skills and while a strong clinical background is essential, it is not expected that candidates will have experience of each clinical speciality.
The post holder will:
- Develop pharmacy services to optimise patient care, including implementing national guidance, ensuring safe prescribing and monitoring of these specialist drugs
- Work with colleagues within the Care Group and across the interface to develop, implement and monitor treatment pathways, with a particular focus on high-cost drugs
- Drive quality improvement and implement cost saving plans such as biosimilar switches to ensure medicines optimisation opportunities are realised
Main duties of the job
The post holder leads, delivers, develops, manages and evaluates clinical pharmacy services. The focus of the post is on ensuring the provision of high quality, safe, comprehensive (clinical, supply, financial and operational) pharmaceutical services at KCH, in accordance with the priorities set by the Deputy and Associate Chief Pharmacists, Clinical Services.
• Acting as a specialist role model and as an expert in the clinical field and demonstrating an advanced level of knowledge.
• Ensuring the safe, efficacious and cost-effective use of drugs within the Care Group
• Developing and implementing guidelines, procedures and policies to support medicines management in the Care Group.
• Regular financial reporting, drug usage and expenditure forecasting
• Initiating and coordinating research and development activity within the specialist area.
• Identifying a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services to the Care Group.
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
- To be responsible for the provision of a highly specialised pharmacy service (clinical, dispensing and supply) to patients within the Care Group.
- To provide highly specialised evidence-based clinical advice and information (doses, interaction, adverse effects, drug availability, complex dose calculations) to nursing and medical staff (within the
Trust and externally) on the management of individual patients, in accordance with legislation. - To act as a pharmacist independent prescriber to optimise the care of patients.
- To participate in consultant ward rounds.
- To demonstrate expert clinical knowledge.
- To manage and make appropriate referrals.
- To provide direct high quality of care to outpatients in clinic(s) within specialist area, as required.
- To follow legal ethical professional and employers codes of conduct.
- To enhance the quality of patient care.
- To manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
- To make decisions with limited information.
- To act as a clinical role model for staff providing clinical pharmacy services to the Care Group.
- To demonstrate advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement To liaise with other pharmacists, services and Trusts to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues.
- To promote and deliver pharmaceutical care specifically for patients within the Care Group and generally for all patients.
- To contribute to and participate in the clinical/ward pharmacy service.
- To minimise risk to patients through effective supervision of clinicians, nurses and patients relating to medicine use.
To update and maintain patient medication record in accordance with Trust policy. - To demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trust Clinical governance agenda.
- To identify trends in drug errors and develop strategies to minimise these.
- To demonstrate a whole-system patient-focused approach.
- To contribute to, adhere to, monitor and assess clinical pharmacy service standards.
- To provide formal or informal patient / carer education and counselling.
Person specification
Qualifications,
Essential criteria
- Masters degree MPharm
- Registered Pharmacist MRPharmS (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice
- Registered independent prescriber or willingness to complete
Skills and Experience
Essential criteria
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice
- Demonstrate high organisational skills - identifying, planning, organising and developing systems to improve service delivery
- Experience of supervising others, including for research and audit projects
- Experience of protocol/guideline development
- Previous directorate experience, including financial reporting
- Be able to provide highly complex information on both clinical pharmacy and finance issues and impart knowledge to other healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultant level / regional and national level)
- Ability to work well under pressure by prioritising and managing time effectively
- Ability to identify and manage risks
- Ability to implement and manage change
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Be able to use available evidence to make sound judgments in relation to patient-or drug-specific issues
- Understands national and local priorities
Desirable criteria
- Demonstration of advanced practice using evidence mapped to the RPS Advanced Practice Framework
- Advanced critical appraisal skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Torrens
- Job title
- Associate Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032999000
- Additional information
For further information please contact:
Email: [email protected] or telephone 02032999000 Ext: 39885
Email: [email protected] or telephone 02032999000 Ext: 37844 (Current post holder)
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