Job summary
Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision 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.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated clinical pharmacist to lead our critical care and surgery team. You will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to critical care and surgical patients at Newham Hospital.
You will be supporting the Clinical Services Lead pharmacist at Newham University Hospital in leading a team to deliver high quality clinical pharmacy services within the speciality.
The successful candidate will join a supportive, integrated pharmacy team, committed to delivering high quality patient care. You will have access to further educational opportunities and senior clinicians within Pharmacy and other disciplines who can provide mentorship and aid professional development.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the Clinical Pharmacy and Medicines Management services within the critical care and surgery services
To manage the rotational specialist pharmacist, and trainees within the critical care and surgery rotations and ensure provision and continuity of service across the site.
To support the development of critical care and surgery in line with the Pharmacy Department and Barts Health Strategies.
Close working with the multidisciplinary and wider pharmacy team to optimise patient flow. To actively support the improvement of Pharmacy Services based on evidence and appropriate innovation metrics.
Your primary base will be Newham University Hospital. However, there will also be a requirement for you to visit other trust sites when necessary.
About us
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.
Job description
Job 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
- 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
- GCP Trained in clinical trials
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- Proven experience of good performance in previous posts
- Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
- Experience of providing evaluated information on drug expenditure
- Appropriate experience in providing a hospital- based pharmacy service to a Critical Care or high dependency unit (Level 2 & Level 3)
- Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g., pre-registration / foundation training pharmacists
- Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
Desirable
- Successful experience of managing & leading projects
- Experience of successfully managing staff, performing appraisals, and giving feedback
- Experience of delivering professional training and education
- Experience of managing guidelines and PGDs relevant to the speciality
- Experience of managing medication incidents
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of GPhC revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g., controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems
- Excellent knowledge of the medical management and pharmaceutical care needs of Critical Care (level 2 & 3) and surgical patients
- Awareness of current national standards, guidelines, and service delivery issues relevant to Critical Care and Surgery patients
- Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent
- Knowledge of the law and relevant guidance relating to medicines, pharmacy, rationing decisions in the NHS, Payment by Results (PbR) and commissioning in relation to PN
Desirable
- Knowledge of interface issues relevant to the patient group
- Knowledge of risk management issues relevant to the patient group and root cause analysis
- Knowledge of planning and delivering quality improvement initiatives
Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Assertive, diplomatic, persuasive with ability to negotiate
- Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
- Ability to manage time effectively and work to deadlines
- Demonstrates initiative.
- Demonstrates critical appraisal skills
- Able to work unsupervised, follow written instruction and work under pressure
- IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes.
- Good team worker
- Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training. Effective pharmaceutical care skills
- Ability to motivate and act as a role model.
- Able to plan, organise and deliver cost improvement plans
Desirable
- Experience in local implementation of national standards and guidelines
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
- Experience of working across a network to adopt best practices
Other
Essential
- Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
- DBS - Enhanced check with a check of the barred lists required as patient facing may interact with adults / children.
Desirable
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and member of Facult
- Member of UKCPA
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
Barts Health NHS Trust
Address
Newham University Hospital
London
E13 8SL