Senior Specialist Pharmacist - Outpatient Pre-Operative Services

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 12 January 2025

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic pharmacist seeking an opportunity to make a difference?

Royal Papworth Hospital invites you to join our team, providing high quality pharmaceutical care to patients in our specialist cardio-respiratory centre. The pharmacy department sits at the heart of our state-of-the-art, digitally enabled hospital.

In this new role, you will lead on the provision of advice to patients on the peri-procedural management of their medicines. The role is focused in our multi-professional pre-admission clinic, supporting patients who have planned cardiac and thoracic surgical procedures, or who will be undergoing minimally invasive heart value replacement in the catheter laboratory. In addition to providing high quality care in the clinic, the successful candidate will be expected to train junior pharmacists and others in peri-operative medicines management and have a small ward-based pharmacy commitment in a surgical or critical care setting.

We welcome diversity in our department, and look to celebrate the unique contribution of each team member. As a team we are supportive of flexible and part-time working, and would look to agree a working pattern which meets the needs of both the individual and the service.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will:

- Independently undertake consultations with patients in the pre-admission clinic, advising on peri-procedural medicines management and making prescribing decisions within this scope where appropriate.

- Lead the development of guidelines and policies within your area of expertise.

- Provide training and mentorship for other professionals providing advice on perioperative medicines management.

- Maintain small ward-based pharmacy commitment within the surgical pathway.

In addition to your clinical responsibilities, you will play a pivotal role in promoting safe medicines management within Outpatients and Day Ward environments. You'll have the opportunity to lead quality improvement initiatives or research projects and deliver training sessions to a variety of staff groups.

As a senior member of the pharmacy department, you will line manage a small number of pharmacists and contribute to our senior pharmacist team. We are dedicated to the development of line managers, providing access to leadership development programmes to enhance management and leadership skills.

If you are passionate about delivering exceptional pharmaceutical care and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment, we want to hear from you.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Date posted

19 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

175-2425-1-PH749

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

M Pharm (or equivalent)
Registration with the GPhC
Independent prescriber
Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy practice or equivalent

Desirable

Membership of RPS and/or UKCPA
Accreditation with RPS faculty
Post graduate MSc

Experience

Essential

Previous experience in either surgery or critical care pharmacy services.
Experience of undertaking project and audit work
Experience of leadership
Experience of supervising, mentoring and teaching

Desirable

UKCPA introduction to critical care (or equivalent)
Leadership qualification or course attendance

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

M Pharm (or equivalent)
Registration with the GPhC
Independent prescriber
Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy practice or equivalent

Desirable

Membership of RPS and/or UKCPA
Accreditation with RPS faculty
Post graduate MSc

Experience

Essential

Previous experience in either surgery or critical care pharmacy services.
Experience of undertaking project and audit work
Experience of leadership
Experience of supervising, mentoring and teaching

Desirable

UKCPA introduction to critical care (or equivalent)
Leadership qualification or course attendance

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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