Job summary
- Main area
- pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 337-NP-7831MF-A
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Emergency and Acute Medicine
Band 7
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our ward based Clinical Pharmacy services. In this key post you will be working as part of an established multidisciplinary team and be responsible for providing a high quality Clinical Pharmacy service to the modern Admissions Units.
The successful candidate will be expected to work Monday – Friday and participate in weekend (Saturday and Sundays) and Bank Holiday rotas.
Main duties of the job
As an enthusiastic and patient oriented Pharmacist, you will combine expert opinion and expert practice at the bedside to benefit patient care, and work at the forefront with the admissions team to help us implement, deliver and continually improve medicines management to the Admissions Units. You will be responsible for reconciling medicines prescribed on admission, promote early in-depth medication review and support the discharge process; thereby facilitating high quality patient outcomes whilst reducing prescribing errors and ensuring patient safety.
You will need post-registration experience relevant to hospital Pharmacy and will have completed or be working towards completing the Post Graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification. You will need excellent communication, interpersonal and time management skills and will need to enjoy working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
The Pharmacy department at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust is a friendly and forward thinking department that offers comprehensive services including a well-respected Clinical Pharmacy service, a number of Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Pharmacists, and a Regional Medicines Information Centre. The department also has a large manufacturing unit. Northwick Park Hospital is also home to one of eight Hyper Acute Stroke Units (HASUs) in London.
Working for our organisation
The London North West Hospitals NHS Trust consists of Northwick Park and St Mark’s hospitals in Harrow, Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, and Ealing Hospital. Between Northwick Park, St Mark’s and Central Middlesex Hospitals we care for more than half a million people living across Brent and Harrow as well as patients from all over the country and internationally at St Mark’s, our specialist hospital for bowel diseases. This makes us one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the capital.
The Pharmacy Department offers comprehensive pharmaceutical services across site including a well-respected clinical pharmacy service supported by a dedicated TDM pharmacist, specialist clinical pharmacists and a well-equipped Medicines Information centre integrated into the Regional Medicines Information Centre. A large licensed ‘specials’ manufacturing unit complements these services.
We are a department that believe in equipping our Band 7 Pharmacists with skills to carry out senior roles to aid their career progression. Posts have been developed to ensure leadership roles are key with a high emphasis on delivering teaching and training to a wide range of healthcare professionals as well as managing teams. You will be able to develop senior roles and responsibilities and we encourage individuals to take on any new responsibilities to meet their development needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy Degree
- GPHC registered
- Certificate in pharmacy practice
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Clinical Diploma
- Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Hospital Pharmacy Experience
Desirable criteria
- Clinical pharmacy experience in an acute hospital setting
- Staff management experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to prioritise workload under pressure
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
- Sonali Patel
- Job title
- Pharmacy Lead, Acute & Emergency Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 869 5397
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