Job summary
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our team who is looking to develop their clinical and leadership skills in a dynamic service. This post will provide a new opportunity for the successful candidate to develop their skills in quality improvement and work collaboratively to deliver on newly introduced pathways and ensure that they are clinically safe.
Please note this is a 12 month fixed term position.
Closing date: Sunday 9th June 2024 at midnight
Proposed interview date: Monday 17th June 2024
Main duties of the job
This post will form part of a dynamic and flexible team in delivering a patient-focused, safe, clinically and cost-effective service supporting clinical leads and staff across our Trust and wider health-system in the management of patients with/at risk of infectious diseases, including (but not limited to):
- support to the delivery of pharmacy services to other patients with/at risk of infectious diseases across the wider GSTT footprint
- support to the delivery of pharmacy services to the Trust's Respiratory High Consequence Infectious Diseases Unit
- management and delivery of COVID-19-specific treatments including neutralising monoclonal antibodies (nMAbs) and COVID-19-specific antivirals
- mass delivery of COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations
As a key part of this role you will be responsible for the safe and effective management of antimicrobial use and stewardship as part of the wider Infectious Diseases & COVID Services Pharmacy team.
This position will form part of a rotational clinical pharmacist programme within the Infectious Diseases & COVID Services team and will include rotations through the different areas described above. The role will focus on the pharmaceutical, clinical and quality aspects of the above services, in addition to providing robust governance on the safe and secure handling and management of these medicines.
About us
Directorate of Infection
The Directorate of Infection (DoI) includes the Department of Infectious Diseases, providing clinical care to both in-patients (either by direct patient management or consult/referral) and out-patients (via multiple well-established ID clinics) across both main Trust sites. The Directorate also includes the Trust's well-respected and nationally recognised Department of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), and hosts the Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, as well as being co-located with the main Infection Sciences and Virology laboratories on the St. Thomas' site.
COVID Services
The Vaccination Programme, which was formed in December 2020, is one of leading Vaccination Programmes within the UK. To date we have delivered 850,000+ vaccinations to a range of patients within London. We work across all hospital sites as well as within the community, including schools and other outreach services.
The Directorate is also responsible for leading the COVID Medicines Delivery Unit, providing antiviral or neutralising monoclonal antibody treatments for high risk patients with COVID in South East London.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for:
- providing specialist pharmaceutical clinical advice and guidance to the Infectious Diseases and COVID Services teams;
- facilitating, developing and implementing plans or processes to support continuous improvement;
- ensuring continued safe, effective, and efficient delivery of pharmaceutical services to the Infectious Diseases and COVID Services teams
The role may also require collaborative working with external stakeholders such as NHSE&I, other Acute Trust Providers, South East London Integrated Care Board staff, NHS London staff, and UKHSA.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will be responsible for:
- providing specialist pharmaceutical clinical advice and guidance to the Infectious Diseases and COVID Services teams;
- facilitating, developing and implementing plans or processes to support continuous improvement;
- ensuring continued safe, effective, and efficient delivery of pharmaceutical services to the Infectious Diseases and COVID Services teams
The role may also require collaborative working with external stakeholders such as NHSE&I, other Acute Trust Providers, South East London Integrated Care Board staff, NHS London staff, and UKHSA.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Professional Registration with GPhC
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree (MPharm)
- Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma in pharmacy practice
Desirable
- Registered independent prescriber
- Accredited short courses in management
- Accredited short courses in education and training
- Accredited short courses in mentoring and supervision
- Accredited short courses in leadership
Experience
Essential
- Competency assessed and examined to allow professional registration with GPhC
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
- Post registration experience relevant to Hospital Pharmacy Practice with assessed competencies in dispensary services, medicines information and technical services
- Demonstrable ability to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients in medical and surgical specialties
- Demonstrable ability to respond to medicines incidents
Desirable
- Structured training rotation
- Demonstrable ability to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines for patients in another specialty
- Demonstrable experience of managing patients independently e.g. anticoagulation clinics
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities
Essential
- Successful completion of a competence based dispensary rotation, including inpatients and outpatient services
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to undertake clinical screening of prescriptions
- Successful completion of a competence based technical services rotation, including TPN services
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to undertake clinical screening and checking of aseptic preparations
- Successful completion of a competence based medicines information rotation, including obtaining UKMI level 1 competencies
- Successful completion of a competence based rotation in general medicine
- Successful completion of a competence based rotation in general surgery
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to provide pharmaceutical care to specialist patient group
- Demonstrable experience of clinically influencing at senior level e.g. ward rounds
- Demonstrable ability to critically evaluate the evidence in cases where evidence is limited, inconclusive or conflicting in relation to medical or surgical patient management, and formulate recommendations for clinical care
- Recent evidence of demonstrated ability of undertaking clinical audit or service evaluation and improving clinical patience or outcome
- Demonstrated ability to undertake a service improvement project to address a pharmacy service issue
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Professional Registration with GPhC
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree (MPharm)
- Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma in pharmacy practice
Desirable
- Registered independent prescriber
- Accredited short courses in management
- Accredited short courses in education and training
- Accredited short courses in mentoring and supervision
- Accredited short courses in leadership
Experience
Essential
- Competency assessed and examined to allow professional registration with GPhC
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
- Post registration experience relevant to Hospital Pharmacy Practice with assessed competencies in dispensary services, medicines information and technical services
- Demonstrable ability to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients in medical and surgical specialties
- Demonstrable ability to respond to medicines incidents
Desirable
- Structured training rotation
- Demonstrable ability to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines for patients in another specialty
- Demonstrable experience of managing patients independently e.g. anticoagulation clinics
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities
Essential
- Successful completion of a competence based dispensary rotation, including inpatients and outpatient services
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to undertake clinical screening of prescriptions
- Successful completion of a competence based technical services rotation, including TPN services
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to undertake clinical screening and checking of aseptic preparations
- Successful completion of a competence based medicines information rotation, including obtaining UKMI level 1 competencies
- Successful completion of a competence based rotation in general medicine
- Successful completion of a competence based rotation in general surgery
- Demonstrable knowledge, skills and ability to provide pharmaceutical care to specialist patient group
- Demonstrable experience of clinically influencing at senior level e.g. ward rounds
- Demonstrable ability to critically evaluate the evidence in cases where evidence is limited, inconclusive or conflicting in relation to medical or surgical patient management, and formulate recommendations for clinical care
- Recent evidence of demonstrated ability of undertaking clinical audit or service evaluation and improving clinical patience or outcome
- Demonstrated ability to undertake a service improvement project to address a pharmacy service issue
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).
