Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Pharmacist Community Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Post will be based at Teddington Memorial Hospital)
- Job ref
- 396-NN-6426506-ACS-Z
- Employer
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Teddington Memorial Hospital
- Town
- Teddington
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 pa incl of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacist, Community Services
Band 8a
Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We employ just under 5000 staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.
The South West London Collaborative Bank
Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working!
Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits
The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and invests heavily in the wellbeing of its staff. Alongside opportunities for career development, there is a dedicated team of Staff Pastoral Wellbeing Practitioners who work with the Clinical and Corporate divisions, to provide pastoral support to all staff. These Practitioners are part of the wider Health & Wellbeing provision which includes a specialist Staff Physiotherapist, Occupational Health and access to counselling and an Employee Assistance Programme. The team works together to enhance staff wellbeing and to promote a healthy work-life balance.
Recent awards:
- Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year
- HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019
- NHSE National Healthcare Support Worker Award for Innovation and Excellence in Pastoral Support – 2023
- NHSE London Healthcare Support Worker Award for Sustainable Retention Initiative – 2023
Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:
- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Job overview
Please note that this job is ward based at Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and clinically experienced pharmacist to join our team. This Community Services based role will lead and deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services to the two inpatient rehabilitation wards at Teddington Memorial Hospital. This will involve working with the Pharmacy Team at Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust (HRCH) and the contracted community provider, Your Healthcare (YH).
HRCH and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KHFT) are going through an exciting time of joint working to become one organisation. As such, the post holder will be dynamically involved in defining new processes, supporting change and working across HRCH, KHFT and YH to deliver joined up care.
For further information on this post, please contact Roshni Thoppil, Senior Principal Pharmacist, Clinical Services at Kingston Hospital on 020 8934 3142 (Monday to Thursday).
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the delivery and development of pharmacy services working as a member of the Multidisciplinary Team, attending weekly ward rounds. You will also work closely with Clinical Nurse Leads and Quality and Risk Leads to provide and develop safe and effective systems in Medicines Management across the organisations.
Support will be provided by the Pharmacy Team at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with the department providing additional clinical support, medicines information, dispensary and stores services.
You will need to have a Clinical Diploma or equivalent, possess excellent communication skills and have a clear understanding of medicines optimisation in elderly patients.
Working for our organisation
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this, our four values are that we are all:
Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants
Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)
Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
And that we:
Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution.
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for the delivery, development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services to the Community Teams within Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare Trust (HRCH) and in line with relevant Service Level Agreements agreed with the contracted community provider Your Healthcare CIC (YH).
To lead and deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services to the Community inpatient rehabilitation wards and services as part of an integrated pharmacy team.
Provide professional pharmaceutical support to multidisciplinary community teams across Kingston and Richmond localities.
Develop and deliver medicines-related training to Community nursing staff & carers, non-medical prescribers and allied healthcare professionals.
To establish good working relations with partner organisations including YH, HRCH and SWL ICB.
Ward based at Teddington Memorial Hospital, working in close association with GPs, Clinical Nurse Leads, Quality and Risk Leads, the Medicines Management Lead and Controlled Drug Accountable Officer to provide and develop safe and effective systems and services across the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist
- Post Graduate Clinical Diploma
- Taught Master’s Degree in Pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescriber qualification
Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive post-registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy - this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of acute hospital pharmacy practice (medicines information, ward services and dispensing)
- Experience of providing clinical pharmacist services to elderly care wards or medical wards as a Band 7 Pharmacist
- A clear understanding of medicines optimisation in elderly care patients
- Multidisciplinary teamwork
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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
- Roshni Thoppil
- Job title
- Senior Principal Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8934 3142
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