Job summary
- Main area
- pharmacy
- Grade
- B7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1404
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Langley House Hospital
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £24.55 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay + Unsocial hours
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Pharmacist Herts
B7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Job Purpose
To provide a high-quality specialist Clinical Pharmacy Service across a range of inpatient settings in the Community Hospitals (Rehabilitation Units, Interim Care Beds, Palliative Care, Discharge to Assess wards). To provide professional expertise, advice, support and training to health care professionals and patients within the Trust.
This role is required to cover Bedded Services in Hertfordshire and North London
Sites include:
- Langley House Hospital (698 St Albans Rd, Watford WD25 9FG)
- Hemel Hempstead Hospital (Hillfield Rd, Hemel Hempstead HP2 4AD)
- Potters Bar Hospital (Barnet Rd, Potters Bar EN6 2RY)
- Finchley Memorial Hospital (Granville Rd, London N12 0JE)
- Edgware Community Hospital (Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware HA8 0AD)
Main duties of the job
· To provide and develop a high-quality specialist Clinical Pharmacy Service across a range of inpatient settings in the Community Hospitals (Rehabilitation Units, Interim Care Beds, Palliative Care, Discharge to Assess ward) covered by the Bedded Services team supported by the Lead Pharmacist for Hertfordshire and Lead Pharmacist for Bedded Services.
· To provide support and guidance to Medicine Management Pharmacy Technicians
· To be responsible for individualised patient pharmaceutical care ensuring clinical prioritisation on a day-to-day basis at ward level.
· To provide a patient focused pharmacy service to patients and staff including medicines reconciliation and full clinical screening of prescriptions to ensure safe and cost-effective use of evidence based and rational use of medicines, in line with local policies and national guidance ensuring medicines are optimised and risks to patients are minimized e.g. NICE, NHSE/I, PHE
· Facilitate changes to the patients’ own use of medicines to improve safety, adherence and empower as much independent use of medicines as possible and appropriate.
Working for our organisation
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To participate in ward rounds and MDTs where appropriate to ensure a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to medicines management, with a view to ensuring continuity of pharmaceutical care for patients in different healthcare settings.
· To optimise medications by undertaking Structured Medication Reviews and provide counselling to all patients
· To participate in collecting and recording activity and intervention data to monitor key performance indicators.
· To participate in ADR and Datix reporting and implement risk reduction initiatives at ward level
· To provide services with an integrated approach by developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with multidisciplinary teams within CLCH and local organisations (CCGs, PCNs, GPs, Acute Hospitals, Care Homes, Community Pharmacies) to deliver optimal and seamless patient care by providing clear and effective communication of patient’s pharmaceutical needs in a timely manner
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy.
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Certificate qualification or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma qualification or equivalent.
- Independent prescriber.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Hospital experience
- Experience of providing a Clinical Pharmacy Service with good medicines management initiatives
- Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting
- Experience of working effectively within multi-disciplinary groups
- Experience of structured medication review
Desirable criteria
- Primary and Community Health experience
- Experience of audit techniques
- Experience of training
- Experience of project / change management
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the NHS and political environment
- Sound knowledge of prescribing, pharmacy and medicines management issues
- Sound knowledge of Medicines Reconciliation on admission and discharge and Medicines Management processes
- To manage own time and prioritise workload effectively
Desirable criteria
- Effective negotiation skills and ability to persuade other
- Knowledge of interface issues
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
- Shanelle Green
- Job title
- Bank recruitment business partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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