Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 259-6790232RLH
- Employer
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/12/2024
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Gastroenterology Pharmacist
Band 8a
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Job overview
The Pharmacy Department at Bart’s Health covers a population of 2.5 million. We provide clinical pharmacy, medicines management and medicines optimisation services from our four hospital sites across the City of London and East London.
We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Pharmacist to join our brilliant Specialist Medicine Pharmacy Team. The post holder will be supporting the Lead Specialist Medicine Pharmacist in leading a team of staff in the delivery of high quality clinical pharmacy services to the Gastroenterology Department at the Royal London Hospital.
The post holder will be joining the Specialist Medicine Pharmacy Team. You will be working closely with the IBD multidisciplinary team as well as the wider Gastroenterology Team at the Royal London and Mile End Hospitals.
The post holder will be responsible for the Clinical Pharmacy and Medicines Management services within the Gastroenterology Department at Barts Health NHS Trust. You will undertake weekly outpatient clinics to initiate and monitor patients with IBD on conventional and advanced therapy. You will gain experience in business planning, service improvement, financial management and clinical governance. You will also be supported to further develop your leadership capabilities via a combination of internal and external training programmes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be supporting the Lead Specialist Medicine Pharmacist in leading a team of staff in the delivery of high quality clinical pharmacy services to the speciality primarily at the Royal London Hospital, although there may be some specialist cross-site responsibility for these pharmacy services on discussion with the Clinical Leads for Gastroenterology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
The post holder might be required to work across the Trust at any time throughout the duration of his / her contract, which may entail travel and working at a different hospital.
The job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the postholder.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification, or willing to work towards
Desirable criteria
- Member of the RPS
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of providing a hospital based service to Gastroenterology patients at Band 7 level or equivalent
- Experience of working in a MDT
- Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
- Evidence of basic teaching in a hospital setting
- Experience appraising staff and giving feedback
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with clinical directorates
- Experience working with high-cost drugs
- Understanding of the pharmacy homecare process
- Experience of successfully leading and implementing service improvement and change projects
- Experience of leading and supervising research, quality improvement or audit
- Experience of delivering professional training and education
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of managing a budget
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of GPhC revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of the medical management of IBD and gastroenterology patients
- Understanding of conventional and advanced therapy in IBD
- Understanding of NHSE and ICB Commissioning
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
- Understanding of stock control systems
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. Controlled Drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
- An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to all patients, and how they relate to pharmacy and medicines management
- Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- Awareness of and commitment to clinical governance
- Understands Government policy and vision for the development of health and social care
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the medication issues at the interface of primary and secondary care
- Good knowledge of risk management issues relevant to the patient group and root cause analysis
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training, with excellent teaching and mentoring skills
- Accountable for own professional actions and responsibilities
- Demonstrates expert ability to critically evaluate information and apply to problem solving
- Demonstrates vision and innovation with the ability to implement change through effective strategy and planning
- Demonstrates ability to think logically and reason
- Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to be flexible and manage change in a complex and changing healthcare environment
- Ability to negotiate with and influence others
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of healthcare professional
- Able to deliver key messages succinctly and professionally both verbally and in writing
- Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
- Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure
- Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
- Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
- Able to work unsupervised and under pressure
- IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
- Demonstrates effective customer service skills
- Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
Desirable criteria
- Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work / service.
- Experience in local implementation of national standards and guidelines
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
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
- Usha Hawker
- Job title
- Lead Specialist Medicine Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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