Job summary
Would you like to learn how to manage cirrhotic liver or IBD patients? How to give medicines safely via different feeding tube routes? How to adapt long term therapy in short bowel syndrome or home parenteral nutrition patients? Or recognise when bespoke TPN bags are needed? Could you become the first advice point for medicines post specialist GI surgery, teaching junior doctors, nurses and pharmacists how to optimise routine pharmaceutical care in various NBM states?
This is just a small part of what you'll learn as a clinical pharmacist permanently based in our Surgical and Gastro Inpatient team. This new role (1 of 2) will rotate through Gastro Inpatients, Adult Nutrition, and GI Surgery, adding depth to foundation level medical and surgical pharmaceutical knowledge, and introducing new specialist pathways across disorders of the abdomen.
You will have completed the Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent and be ready to learn how to adapt evidence based medicine to complex patient situations that often have no easy answer. We offer the chance to complete the independent prescribing course if you do not already have it.
Main duties of the job
This specialist band 7 post is core to providing high quality pharmaceutical care to patients on our gastro medicine ward, GI surgery unit, and to any adult receiving TPN on GSTT sites. All three specialities include routine input to consultant-led ward rounds, complex patient reviews, anticoagulation clinics, multi-disciplinary meetings, and medicines safety and local risk review meetings. As your confidence grows, your independence in these specialist activities will increase, with project work building on your knowledge of the patient pathways.
With trainees, step 1 and 2 pharmacists, and band 6 to 7 progression pharmacists rotating to us for surgical training, there will be lots of supervising, mentoring, and tutoring opportunities, both one to one and through daily programme co-ordination. MDT teaching opportunities will be almost daily, but we also offer the chance to deliver formal medical prescribing workshops, patient teaching sessions, and undergraduate teaching. All of your development will continue to be supervised by highly specialist 8a pharmacists, who will support your audit, management and leadership skills alongside your clinical development.
About us
As well as delivering clinical pharmacy services, working for a vast and diverse team and wider pharmacy department means that successful applicants will also have the opportunities to undertake Trust-based training courses, as well as team and organisational responsibilities (e.g. staff planning, rostering and service planning), leadership roles (e.g. project supervision, training, mentoring and appraisal of junior staff members) and to support service development (e.g medication safety, guideline and PIL review, quality improvement and financial management).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description which provides information on our organisation and the core responsibilities of these roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description which provides information on our organisation and the core responsibilities of these roles.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm degree (or equivalent)
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Successful completion of a Post-graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Working at or towards credentialing with the RPS at Advanced Stage 1
Experience
Essential
- Experience of rotating through Patient Services / Dispensary environment
- Experience of working in a ward-based environment, with specific clinical experience within Surgical ward areas
- Experience of working in a ward-based environment, with specific clinical experience within Medical ward areas
- Experience of overseeing the organisation and training students, Trainee and Junior Pharmacists and / or Pharmacy Technicians
- Experience in the design and / or delivery of local education and training across the MDT
- Experience of managing resources, rotas and / or staffing
- To have undertaken and leading clinical audit, quality improvement, research and/or service
- Experience in medication safety with investigation and learning from errors
Desirable
- Experience as a formal line manager for another member of the team
- Experience of working in a clinic based environment managing a patient case load independently
- Clinical pharmacy experience within gastroenterology ward/ outpatient areas
- Clinical pharmacy experience within GI surgery ward areas
- Clinical pharmacy experience advising on medicines administration via feeding tubes
- Experience of acting as a Designated Supervisor for Trainee Pharmacists
- Experience in medicines governance i.e. management of unlicensed requests
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen a range of prescriptions including complex and high risk medicines
- Ability to communicate complex pharmaceutical information effectively to members of the MDT
- Able to manage their own workload effectively and escalate for support, when required
- Ability to work independently when required
- Able to effectively solve clinical and operational problems to best support patient care
- Able to work under pressure
Desirable
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen medicines for gastroenterology patients
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen medicines for GI Surgery patients
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen medicines for clinical nutrition patients
- Able to effectively solve clinical problems in complex patients
Personal qualities
Essential
- Able to inspire and motivate others
- Recognises own limitations
- Take responsibility for own actions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm degree (or equivalent)
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Successful completion of a Post-graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Working at or towards credentialing with the RPS at Advanced Stage 1
Experience
Essential
- Experience of rotating through Patient Services / Dispensary environment
- Experience of working in a ward-based environment, with specific clinical experience within Surgical ward areas
- Experience of working in a ward-based environment, with specific clinical experience within Medical ward areas
- Experience of overseeing the organisation and training students, Trainee and Junior Pharmacists and / or Pharmacy Technicians
- Experience in the design and / or delivery of local education and training across the MDT
- Experience of managing resources, rotas and / or staffing
- To have undertaken and leading clinical audit, quality improvement, research and/or service
- Experience in medication safety with investigation and learning from errors
Desirable
- Experience as a formal line manager for another member of the team
- Experience of working in a clinic based environment managing a patient case load independently
- Clinical pharmacy experience within gastroenterology ward/ outpatient areas
- Clinical pharmacy experience within GI surgery ward areas
- Clinical pharmacy experience advising on medicines administration via feeding tubes
- Experience of acting as a Designated Supervisor for Trainee Pharmacists
- Experience in medicines governance i.e. management of unlicensed requests
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen a range of prescriptions including complex and high risk medicines
- Ability to communicate complex pharmaceutical information effectively to members of the MDT
- Able to manage their own workload effectively and escalate for support, when required
- Ability to work independently when required
- Able to effectively solve clinical and operational problems to best support patient care
- Able to work under pressure
Desirable
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen medicines for gastroenterology patients
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen medicines for GI Surgery patients
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen medicines for clinical nutrition patients
- Able to effectively solve clinical problems in complex patients
Personal qualities
Essential
- Able to inspire and motivate others
- Recognises own limitations
- Take responsibility for own actions
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).
