Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: including weekends, late duties, on-call, bank holidays
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends, late duties, on-call, bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1522
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inclusive of HCAS Outer London
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Pharmacist Rheumatology/Gastroenterology/Endoscopy
Band 8a
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledge of the medicines optimisation agenda.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Pharmacist for Rheumatology / Gastroenterology (including endoscopy),
- Is responsible for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service to these speciality areas.
- Is responsible for providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy practice and being a pharmacy role model.
- Is responsible for providing highly specialist service to Rheumatology, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Service for in and outpatients and day cases e.g. bespoke Medicine Management schemes.
- Is responsible for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety - clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines and advises on drug budget management in these areas
- Provides support as required to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicine information services and medicines management programme.
- Assists in planning and delivery of education and training within the pharmacy department and Rheumatology, Gastroenterology and other areas as appropriate.
- Carries out pharmacy practice research and clinical audit in this area of practice.
- Manages the pharmacy team working in this speciality area.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy may be contentious or complex
- Ability to innovate and implement change
- Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
- Ability to work with other colleagues as part of a team
- Ability to resolve conflict
- Ability to show Initiative
- Time & project management skills
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
- Ability to demonstrate CPD
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of medicines requirement
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice eg controlled drugs, health and safety at work
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Recent Clinical Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process
- Experience of teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others eg Trainee pharmacists/Foundation training pharmacists/other staff gorup
Desirable criteria
- Performance Management experience
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English
- Demonstrates effective customer service skills
- Good team worker
- Assertive and diplomatic
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Shows empathy towards patients/carers
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiastic, self-motivating, hardworking and conscientious
- Reliable with a good attendance record
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities
Other requirments
Essential criteria
- Able to do Late duty, Weekend duties, bank holidays or oncall duties as rostered
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Clara Lai
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088873409
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