Job summary
There is a rare and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join the adult clinical nutrition pharmacy team at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, covering the maternity leave of the postholder. The fixed term is expected to be 11months.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated pharmacist with knowledge and skills in gastrointestinal surgery (including intestinal failure) and parenteral nutrition to join our supportive, integrated pharmacy team, committed to delivering high quality patient care to both in-patients and to patients at home.
You will be an integral member of the expert nutrition multidisciplinary team (MDT) comprising of gastro and GI surgery consultants, dietitians, clinical nurse specialists and rotational clinical pharmacists to co-ordinate the care of adult patients requiring parenteral nutrition, and contribute to the safe prescribing of parenteral nutrition, quality care, risk management, and research.
Main duties of the job
- You will deliver a highly specialist clinical nutrition service to surgical, medical, oncology, gastroenterology and intensive care wards within the Trust
- Negotiate with the nutrition MDT to ensure the service is delivered safely and meets the needs of the patients by promoting the safe and cost-effective use of parenteral nutrition
- Lead on medicines solutions for intestinal failure patients on home parenteral nutrition
- Act as the Trust pharmacy lead across the Central London intestinal Failure Partnership (CLIP) network in collaboration with peers from Barts Health NHS Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, delivering on projects/developing pathways for the prescribing and monitoring of drugs such as for treating short bowel syndrome
- Support the rotational clinical pharmacists within clinical nutrition by acting as a role model and section manager
- Promote best practice, utilising local and regional benchmarking groups for the generation and promotion of standards, clinical guidelines and efficiencies
- Participate in departmental and multidisciplinary audit/research activities, to ensure cost-improvement and quality targets are met
About us
You'll work closely with specialist pharmacists in gastroenterology and GI surgery to individualise therapy for complex nutrition patients, including maintaining long term conditions despite reduced oral absorption. Your patients may be across both sites, though predominantly on St Thomas' site.
Working as part of a senior team (also including colleagues in orthopaedics, plastics, and anticoagulation safety) you'll deliver patient and pathway changes across surgical specialities to create quality care across all surgical patients, through training and support of a team of pharmacists and technicians.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- have experience as a clinical practitioner in nutrition support, several surgical specialities, and with broad experience in other general medical areas
- be able to demonstrate a passion for patient care
- demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and directorate level
- demonstrate experience of service development and problem solving 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 but is not essential
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- have experience as a clinical practitioner in nutrition support, several surgical specialities, and with broad experience in other general medical areas
- be able to demonstrate a passion for patient care
- demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and directorate level
- demonstrate experience of service development and problem solving 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 but is not essential
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- Master degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration training
- Registered with GPhC
- Higher degree / diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of being able to deliver pharmaceutical services to general medical patients
- Evidence of being able to deliver pharmaceutical services to at least 2 surgical specialities of patients
- Clinical experience with nutrition support
- Clinical experience in GI surgery
- Clinical experience in intestinal failure/luminal gastroenterology
- Demonstrate the ability to make clinical decisions in complex surgical patients
- To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
Desirable
- Clinical experience in Upper GI Surgery
- Clinical experience in Colorectal Surgery
- 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 ability to implement local guidance, and commissioning policies.
- Experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
Skills
Essential
- 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
- Identifies training needs of junior staff and adapts to meet these
- Provides education and training to pharmacy and MDT
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
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
- To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Undertake own research
- Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services to surgical, GI Surgery or inpatients requiring nutritional support
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- Master degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration training
- Registered with GPhC
- Higher degree / diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of being able to deliver pharmaceutical services to general medical patients
- Evidence of being able to deliver pharmaceutical services to at least 2 surgical specialities of patients
- Clinical experience with nutrition support
- Clinical experience in GI surgery
- Clinical experience in intestinal failure/luminal gastroenterology
- Demonstrate the ability to make clinical decisions in complex surgical patients
- To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
Desirable
- Clinical experience in Upper GI Surgery
- Clinical experience in Colorectal Surgery
- 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 ability to implement local guidance, and commissioning policies.
- Experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
Skills
Essential
- 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
- Identifies training needs of junior staff and adapts to meet these
- Provides education and training to pharmacy and MDT
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
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
- To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Undertake own research
- Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services to surgical, GI Surgery or inpatients requiring nutritional support
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
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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).
