Job summary
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.
About us
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/
Job description
Job 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
- 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
- Independent Non-Medical prescribing qualification
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- Project Management Experience
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Formulary Experience
- Experience in carrying out Literature Evaluations
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice
Skills
Essential
- 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
- 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
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Address
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Sterling Way
London
N18 1QX