Job summary
We are looking for two experienced, enthusiastic pharmacists to lead pharmaceutical care to our gastroenterology and surgical patients in both the inpatient and outpatient setting at Guy's and St Thomas'. (You will find 2 job descriptions, one for the inpatient and another one for the outpatient) If you are a proactive, problem solving medicines expert who enjoys training doctors and nurses and can lead a team of ward based pharmacists and technicians to provide the best pharmaceutical care, you're just the person we need!
You will be able to plan and communicate medicines solutions for patients with complex co-morbidities in acute post-operative complications, teaching others to prioritise, plan and deliver expert pharmaceutical care. You will work closely with colleagues to identify medicines support needed across surgical specialities, adapting to pathway changes as the Trust creates novel ways to increase our surgical activity.
Main duties of the job
Highly Specialist Pharmacist: GI Medicine and Surgery
Guy's and St Thomas' is a national referral centre for complex colorectal disease and the South East regional unit for upper gastro-oesophageal surgery. Your patients might include anything from an emergency appendicitis or cholecystitis, to hepatic encephalopathy or an acute episode of ulcerative colitis. It will include specialist surgery for complex fistulae, IBD, or advanced malignant disease, with changing patient acuity and routes of administration where the MDT turn to you for answers. This role will work closely with the gastroenterology outpatient pharmacy team and act as a liaison to the ward service, you will be trained to take on responsibilities such as supporting the IBD infusion unit and immunomodulator management where necessary.
Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Gastroenterology and Medicines Optimisation
Guy's and St Thomas' is a specialist IBD centre, the successful candidate will be integrated within the MDT to provide expert pharmaceutical care to our patients. You will conduct pharmacy led clinics, high cost drug/advanced therapy management, deliver on medicines optimisation projects and contribute to the delivery and development of the gastroenterology outpatient pharmacy service. This is a dynamic role where you will be required to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of IBD treatment and will work across many different teams to ensure our patients have access to new medicines coming to market.
About us
Working with specialist colleagues in orthopaedics, plastics, VTE prevention and anticoagulation safety, you'll jointly lead our team in delivering medicines expertise across elective and emergency inpatient pathways in gastrointestinal (GI) surgery and medicine. This includes gastroenterology inpatients, upper GI, colorectal, general and endocrine surgery, including troubleshooting acute pain issues. We work as specialists but support one another across our whole team service to provide the best proactive care and advice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- have experience as a clinical practitioner in surgical patients, with background experience in inpatient gastroenterology or general medicine
- understand surgical pathways, ideally with experience in GI surgery or acute pain
- be able to demonstrate a passion for patient care
- act as a role model in delivering pharmaceutical care to complex surgical patients
- demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and directorate level
- demonstrate experience of service development in a multi-disciplinary environment
- have excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills
- have experience in training and supporting pharmacy and MDT staff
- Candidates must have successfully completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent)
- Being a registered Independent Prescriber is an advantage
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- have experience as a clinical practitioner in surgical patients, with background experience in inpatient gastroenterology or general medicine
- understand surgical pathways, ideally with experience in GI surgery or acute pain
- be able to demonstrate a passion for patient care
- act as a role model in delivering pharmaceutical care to complex surgical patients
- demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and directorate level
- demonstrate experience of service development in a multi-disciplinary environment
- have excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills
- have experience in training and supporting pharmacy and MDT staff
- Candidates must have successfully completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent)
- Being a registered Independent Prescriber is an advantage
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Master degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration training
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent
- Experience of multidisciplinary working in hospital pharmacy delivering ward based service
Desirable
- Further clinical pharmacy qualifications at Masters level
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Clinical Practice
Essential
- Clinical experience delivering pharmaceutical services to general medical patients
- Clinical experience delivering pharmaceutical services to patients in 2 surgical specialities
- Collaborative working with senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary teams and management
- Clinical experience in abdominal surgery patients (general, GI or gynae surgery)
- Demonstrates the ability to make clinical decisions in complex surgical patients
- Demonstrates the ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these
- Motivation of others (both within Pharmacy and within the MDT)
Desirable
- Clinical experience in Upper GI Surgery
- Clinical experience in Colorectal Surgery
- Clinical experience in Acute Pain
- Clinical experience in Gastroenterology inpatients or outpatients
- Demonstrate innovation proactively developing clinical pharmacy services
- Experience representing pharmaceutical care at directorate or equivalent level
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in long term conditions
- Demonstrate experience in dealing with high cost medicines
Management and Evaluation of Service
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability to identify and prioritise day to day clinical pharmacy services to surgical patients
- Demonstrates the ability to introduce changes needed to achieve local or national agendas
- Demonstrates the ability to provide evaluated financial information
- Demonstrates the ability to delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
- Demonstrates the ability to manage drug errors from IR1s and develop strategies to minimise these
- Demonstrates the ability to motivate and inspire others
- Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided
Desirable
- Have managed clinical pharmacy services to surgical patients
- Identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on drugs budget
- Demonstrate ability to influence practice at a directorate level
- Demonstrable experience of influencing/improving prescribing pathways at a regional level
Education and training
Essential
- Identifies training needs of junior staff and adapts to meet these
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Provides education and training to pharmacy and MDT
Desirable
- Demonstrates ability to educate, train MDT members in surgical pharmaceutical issues
- Experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
- Experience of delivering teaching or training to postgraduates
Research and Development
Essential
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
- Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
Desirable
- Undertake own research
- Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services to surgical, GI Surgery or gastroenterology inpatients
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Master degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration training
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent
- Experience of multidisciplinary working in hospital pharmacy delivering ward based service
Desirable
- Further clinical pharmacy qualifications at Masters level
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Clinical Practice
Essential
- Clinical experience delivering pharmaceutical services to general medical patients
- Clinical experience delivering pharmaceutical services to patients in 2 surgical specialities
- Collaborative working with senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary teams and management
- Clinical experience in abdominal surgery patients (general, GI or gynae surgery)
- Demonstrates the ability to make clinical decisions in complex surgical patients
- Demonstrates the ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these
- Motivation of others (both within Pharmacy and within the MDT)
Desirable
- Clinical experience in Upper GI Surgery
- Clinical experience in Colorectal Surgery
- Clinical experience in Acute Pain
- Clinical experience in Gastroenterology inpatients or outpatients
- Demonstrate innovation proactively developing clinical pharmacy services
- Experience representing pharmaceutical care at directorate or equivalent level
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in long term conditions
- Demonstrate experience in dealing with high cost medicines
Management and Evaluation of Service
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability to identify and prioritise day to day clinical pharmacy services to surgical patients
- Demonstrates the ability to introduce changes needed to achieve local or national agendas
- Demonstrates the ability to provide evaluated financial information
- Demonstrates the ability to delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
- Demonstrates the ability to manage drug errors from IR1s and develop strategies to minimise these
- Demonstrates the ability to motivate and inspire others
- Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided
Desirable
- Have managed clinical pharmacy services to surgical patients
- Identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on drugs budget
- Demonstrate ability to influence practice at a directorate level
- Demonstrable experience of influencing/improving prescribing pathways at a regional level
Education and training
Essential
- Identifies training needs of junior staff and adapts to meet these
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Provides education and training to pharmacy and MDT
Desirable
- Demonstrates ability to educate, train MDT members in surgical pharmaceutical issues
- Experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
- Experience of delivering teaching or training to postgraduates
Research and Development
Essential
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
- Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
Desirable
- Undertake own research
- Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services to surgical, GI Surgery or gastroenterology inpatients
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
