Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Critical Care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (oncall, weekends and late shifts)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Oncall, weekends and late shifts)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1227-D
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum including HCAS Outer London
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist -Critical Care and Formulary
Band 8a
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence with efficient, safe and compassionate care. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacist with vision and leadership skills to join the Trust as part of the Critical Care team and lead on the trust formulary.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced, capable with teaching and clinical skills. They will have good interpersonal, leadership and managerial skills. You should possess a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent; have hospital pharmacy experience in critical care.
Main duties of the job
- To manage, deliver, develop and monitor the pharmacy critical care service in the Trust working along side the wider MDT.
- To develop and maintain the web based hospital formulary, netFormulary in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines information
- To provide training in critical care skills to clinical staff.
- To act as a trainee pharmacist tutor/ diploma mentor when requested by the E&T Lead.
- To co-ordinate and contribute to writing/checking pharmacy information bulletins.
- To be responsible for providing a highly specialist service to critical care by ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety/ governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines.
- Be responsible for advising in this area, managing drug budget and for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service provided to this area.
- Provide a regular ward pharmacy commitment and provide a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services including training and implementation of relevant policies and risk management initiatives.
- Provide support as requested to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicines management programme.
- Regularly lead on / initiates / contributes to relevant practice research or audit projects within the Pharmacy and to publish the results of such work, as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- MRPharmS or equivalent and registered with GPhC
- Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable criteria
- Independent Non-Medical prescribing qualification
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant Hospital Experience
- Relevant staff Management experience
- CRC experience
- Ability to manage and supervise staff
- Leading and Implementing change
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure
- Understanding of Formulary & DUR and clinical trial issues
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process
Desirable criteria
- Project Management Experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to critically review services and Processes
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Management experience
- Integrate research evidence into practice
- Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Use of search engines/medical dataKnowledge of the requirements of national organisations involved in critical carebases to retrieve information
Desirable criteria
- Formulary Experience
- Experience in carrying out Literature Evaluations
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy maybe contentious or complex
- Ability to innovate and implement change
- Ability to carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysis
- Computer literate
- Ability to lead service
- Ability to motivate, influence and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team and management.
- Ability to work with the colleagues as part of a team
- Ability to resolve conflict
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators pro-actively
- Demonstrate analytical and reasoning skills
Other attributes
Essential criteria
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work Schedule
- Able to work flexible and unsocial hours including Late duties , Weekend duties and bank holidays as rostered
- Able to do participate in out of hours service
- Enthusiasm
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Naaila Patel
- Job title
- Pharmacy team manager Critical care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088873409
- Additional information
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