Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-LIS8381-A
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 p.a inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Heart Failure
Band 8a
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
This is an exciting role in which you will deliver, develop and evaluate our clinical pharmacy service to cardiovascular patients, with a specific focus on heart failure. The role has been designed to deliver pharmacist-led out patients clinics, specialist input at ward level, education and training, guideline development and practice research. The expectation is that the appointed pharmacist will be a role model in the field of cardiovascular medicine and in particular heart failure and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for patients in line with GSTT corporate objectives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the service provision across the following domains:
Clinical Practice
To act as a clinical role model for pharmacists involved in the care of patients with cardiovascular disease (with a specific focus on heart failure) and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
Leadership
To support clinical pharmacy services for patients with cardiovascular disease (with a specific focus on heart failure) in accordance with priorities set by the post holder, lead heart failure consultant and lead cardiology pharmacist, in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
Evaluation of Service
To monitor clinical pharmacy services for patients with cardiovascular disease (with a specific focus on heart failure) in accordance with the priorities set by the post holder, lead heart failure consultant and general manager/clinical director in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
Please refer to the job description for the full list of duties
Working for our organisation
The Cardiovascular service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ is one of the largest in the UK and consists of three main departments: Cardiology; Cardiac Surgery; and Vascular Surgery. All three provide a wide range of services to the local population as well as providing specialist services to patients across South London and Kent. The recent GSTT and Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals merger, has allowed us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a lasting centre of national and international importance devoted to the treatment of heart and lung diseases in adults and children.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Safe and clinically effective use of medicines in patients with cardiovascular (with a specific focus on heart failure) Efficient use of drugs budget for patients with cardiovascular disease (with a specific focus on heart failure).
To work collaboratively with senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary teams and management and to participate in the natural agenda for pharmacy services in accordance with the agreed objectives
See Job Description and personal specification for further details.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm degree Higher degree / diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
- Registration with GPhC
Desirable criteria
- RPS membership RPS Faculty Membership Independent / Supplementary Prescribing Qualification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in cardiovascular patients
- Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine patients
- Deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
- Identify and promote best practice
- Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
- Motivate and inspire others
- Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 3 environment
- Demonstrate innovation
- Extend the boundaries of the profession
- Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have managed an area of clinical pharmacy services
- Identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
- Ensure national and local agendas are delivered
- Establish processes for the setting of standards of care
- Identify and manage changes that need to occur to achieve these
- Identify and manage the risks involved
- Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
- To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
- To identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget
Desirable criteria
- To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
- Have managed clinical pharmacy services in cardiovascular
- Reconcile national priorities with local realities
- Work across traditional boundaries
- Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
- To promote Improvements in Working Lives
- To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
- To demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders and the profession
Skills (Research)
Essential criteria
- To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice
- Integrate research evidence into practice.
- Identify gaps in the evidence base
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
- Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
Desirable criteria
- To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a research component, or equivalent published evidence
- Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services to cardiovascular
- Undertake own research
- Guide and support others undertaking research
- Co-ordinate the undergraduate and preregistration student clinical activity
Skills (Education and Training)
Essential criteria
- To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
- Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Provide education and training to pharmacy and other staff
- Evaluate the training provided
- Participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
- Identify own training needs
- Actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
- Maintain a portfolio of practice
Desirable criteria
- To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a teaching component, or equivalent evidence of teaching experience
- To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Develop strategies to meet the training needs of staff
- Previous experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
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
- Gayle Campbell
- Job title
- Senior Cardiovascular Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07918338862
- Additional information
Jess Webb - Consultant Cardiologist
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