Highly Specialist Pharmacist Paediatric Patient Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information on the role and its requirements please refer to the attached job description and person specification documentation

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm or equivalent pharmacy degree
• Postgraduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent
• Registered Pharmacist of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Comprehensive knowledge of pharmacy regulations

Desirable

• Member of the Faculty of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or working towards) at Advanced Stage II
• Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of process optimisation methodologies

Skills

Essential

• Ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines
• Ability to apply advanced knowledge of drug use and therapeutic trends
• Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
• Evaluates pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via IFRs
• Deliver clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
• Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focussed approach
• Good organisational and time management skills and meeting set targets and deadlines

Desirable

• Demonstrates good leadership skills
• Demonstrate innovation
• Communicates effectively to external organisations

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice
• Substantial experience of delivering pharmaceutical care to paediatric patients
• Standard operation procedure or guideline development
• Education and training experience including supervision and appraisal of staff and students
• Experience in practice research or audit

Desirable

• Representation of pharmacy at directorate or equivalent level
• Management of a pharmacy patient service
• Identify new prescribing practices that may impact the medication budget
• Advanced knowledge of electronic prescribing and medicines administration IT systems.

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Evelina London Children's Hospital

Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)