Job summary
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced pharmacist to play a pivotal role in our service for patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED) at Whittington Health NHS trust.
The post holder will be responsible for providing a high quality clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency and Integrated Care ICSU and input into the growing Urgent and Emergency Care agenda
The post holder will work closely both with our pharmacy team and the multidisciplinary emergency department team to:
- Provide and further develop high value clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to the ED.
- Contribute to the ED & Acute Medicine MDT through multiple training sessions,
- Input into clinical guidelines, PGD development and service improvement work.
- Contribute pharmacy leadership to the Pharmacy Emergency and Integrated Medicine team by supporting junior staff during rotations
- Work across the hospital-community interface to improve medicines management on transfer of care and improve patient safety.
There are excellent opportunities for quality improvement, audit & research and for personal development.
Main duties of the job
For additional information regarding the main duties, please see the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm (or equivalent)
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent Prescriber
- Member of relevant professional clinical groups (e.g. UKCPA)
- Leadership or Management qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- High-level clinical skills sufficient to engage in appropriate dialogue with senior clinicians around complex clinical cases.
- Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing).
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
- Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members
- Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors.
- Good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
- Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments
- Understand, articulate and apply the principles of change management to the healthcare setting
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work.
- Relevant clinical experience from working in areas linked to Urgent and Emergency Care / Acute Medicine
- Suitable experience of working in an acute hospital setting
- Experience as a line manager
- Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and policies
- Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
- Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical tutor.
Desirable
- Knowledge of national bodies responsible for supporting clinical governance and medicine safety in the acute hospital setting
- Experience of contributing to, or leading quality improvement projects
- An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy
- Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities
- An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Reliable, Self-motivated
- Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team
- Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Able to work on own initiative or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post.
- Commitment to continuing personal development.
- Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
Desirable
- Ability to articulate their own leadership style
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm (or equivalent)
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent Prescriber
- Member of relevant professional clinical groups (e.g. UKCPA)
- Leadership or Management qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- High-level clinical skills sufficient to engage in appropriate dialogue with senior clinicians around complex clinical cases.
- Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing).
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
- Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members
- Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors.
- Good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
- Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments
- Understand, articulate and apply the principles of change management to the healthcare setting
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work.
- Relevant clinical experience from working in areas linked to Urgent and Emergency Care / Acute Medicine
- Suitable experience of working in an acute hospital setting
- Experience as a line manager
- Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and policies
- Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
- Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical tutor.
Desirable
- Knowledge of national bodies responsible for supporting clinical governance and medicine safety in the acute hospital setting
- Experience of contributing to, or leading quality improvement projects
- An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy
- Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities
- An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Reliable, Self-motivated
- Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team
- Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Able to work on own initiative or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post.
- Commitment to continuing personal development.
- Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
Desirable
- Ability to articulate their own leadership style
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
