Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: 37.5 hours per week, plus late duty, weekends, and senior on-call
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week, plus late duty, weekends, and senior on-call)
- Job ref
- 343-NN-6439122-HSS-AG-B
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pharmacy Department
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum pro rata incl. outer HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Pharmacist, Medicines Advice and Governance
Band 8a
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
Join Our Team as Principal Pharmacist, Medicines Advice and Governance!
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated individual looking for an exciting new opportunity!We are seeking a dynamic Principal Pharmacist to lead our Medicines Information and pharmacy advice services.
In this pivotal role, you will:
* Provide expert Medicines Information and pharmacy advice to the Trust and service users.
* Collaborate with Lead Pharmacists to address and report on medicines safety and governance issues.
* Lead the training of pharmacy staff, ensuring they deliver professional, evidence-based medicines advice that meets the highest standards and user needs.
This is a thrilling time to join us! Our team has recently undergone a restructure to better achieve our goal of delivering outstanding pharmacy services. As a key member of the pharmacy clinical team, you will work closely with clinical services, patient services, and procurement teams to provide exceptional patient-focused care. We are looking for someone who:
* Demonstrates excellent communication and time management skills. * Has a keen attention to detail.
* Possesses previous experience in hospital pharmacy and a solid understanding of pharmacy medicines information and governance processes. If you believe you have what it takes, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- To introduce and review prescribing recommendations into the Trust as required in line with local and national policies, guidelines and frameworks e.g. NICE, Patient Safety Alerts.
- To ensure all reference sources, guidelines and protocols in Medicines Information are current and up to date.
- To ensure seamless transfer of pharmaceutical care for patients, liaising with other acute Trusts, GPs, Community and primary care pharmacists as appropriate.
- To identify and address prescribing issues across the interface and ensure seamless transfer of pharmaceutical care for patients liaising with the other acute Trusts, GPs, Community and PCN pharmacists as appropriate.
- To promote the safe, rational and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with recommendations of the SWL Joint Formulary, Surrey Heartlands APC and other evidence based guidelines.
- To be responsible for the development, maintenance and evaluation of evidence based treatment guidelines, policies, procedures, shared care protocols and patient group directions (PGDs)
- Apply specialist clinical knowledge and judgment to analyse information, at times where evidence may be lacking, in order to negotiate the optimal clinical outcome
- To provide a medicines information service to the Trust, ensuring appropriate documentation and recording of enquiries in the Medicines Information database.
Working for our organisation
The GESH hospital group is a leading healthcare provider in South West London, comprised of St George’s University Hospitals and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, together, by collaborating and working in partnership to meet the needs of our patients, and making sure our services are affordable and fit for the future.
As GESH partners the pharmacy departments at St Georges University Hospital and Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals are working together in a number of areas including; workforce, key functions such as medication safety and education and training and digital workstreams.
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
Together, as a Group, we will be the driving force behind the most integrated local system in the NHS.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In the full job description, you will see clearly the full range of duties within these roles that will enable you to work as part of the pharmacy team and with the clinicians and ward based teams to provide patient focused, individual care for our patients. Tell us in your application how you meet the criteria in the attached person specification.
Please give us a call for an informal chat. We can arrange departmental walk rounds and provide further information about this exciting role. Join us and be a part of our journey to excellence in pharmacy services!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GPhC registration
- Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MSc Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Independent Pharmacist Prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of leading service and quality improvement projects
- Experience in protocol/guidance development
- Experience in providing high quality pharmaceutical advice
Desirable criteria
- Experience working across the primary / secondary care interface
- Previous experience in delivering education and training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Medicines usage review/evaluation/audit experience
- Knowledge of current issues in medicines safety
Desirable criteria
- Clinical governance and risk management
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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
- Simon Butler
- Job title
- Medication Safety Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07787 522 653
- Additional information
020 8296 4033 (St Helier) & 01372 735 6075 (Epsom)
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