Job summary
Consultant Pharmacist - Critical Care,(subject to RPS accreditation)
(this post may also be offered as an 8b to 8c progressional post based on experience of the successful candidate)
Barts Pharmacy Department have a highly exciting opportunity for an ambitious and forward thinking individual to lead our Critical Care clinical pharmacy agenda at the largest trauma centre in the country. We are on the frontline in London's response to COVID-19 and rapidly expanding our critical care capacity in response to demand in London. We lead the trauma network for NE London and Essex. It is a leading specialist centre with an international reputation for caring for some of the most seriously injured patients in London and beyond. In addition to trauma at RLH, we also provides specialist care in neurosciences, a hyper-acute stroke centre, and acute general medical, along with surgical and obstetric services. You will be responsible for developing and delivering a clear strategy and vision for the delivery and transformation of our critical care clinical pharmacy service so that it is fit for the future. Success will be a highly satisfied and engaged workforce, who are able to support the care of patients flexibly and sustainably, regardless of situation encountered.
To learn more please contact Vi Henry (viola.henry1@nhs.net)
Main duties of the job
As a senior pharmacist in the department, you will be an integral to the leadership team, with departmental responsibility in improving and ensuring the highest standard care for our patients.
To have direct and positive impact improving both patient experience and safe effective services associated with medicines use in critical care through:
- Providing an expert clinical pharmacy service to patients of Barts Health and beyond
- Developing and advancing clinical pharmacy practice and medicines optimisation services across the Trust and related local health economies (NEL).
- Leading, developing and facilitating pharmacy practice/medicines optimisation research, quality improvement and service evaluation/review within the critical care setting
- Designing and delivering specialist critical care medicines management training and education to multidisciplinary Trust staff and students within the Trust and local higher education institutions.
To act as a role model and national expert in the critical care pharmacy field and ensure a consistently high clinical pharmacy service in line with Corporate objectives and the NHS Plan
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Diploma Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification and actively using the qualification
- Have evidence demonstrating competencies that meet the RPS Consultant Pharmacist Curriculum (incl. the RPS Advance Pharmacy Framework competencies)
Desirable
- Management qualification
- MSc in pharmacy practice or equivalent
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership and faculty fellowship
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Diploma Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification and actively using the qualification
- Have evidence demonstrating competencies that meet the RPS Consultant Pharmacist Curriculum (incl. the RPS Advance Pharmacy Framework competencies)
Desirable
- Management qualification
- MSc in pharmacy practice or equivalent
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership and faculty fellowship
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oMPharm or equivalent
- oRegistered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- oDiploma Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- oIndependent prescribing qualification and actively using the qualification
- oHave evidence demonstrating competencies that meet the RPS Consultant Pharmacist Curriculum (incl. the RPS Advance Pharmacy Framework competencies)
Desirable
- oManagement qualification
- oMSc in pharmacy practice or equivalent
- oRoyal Pharmaceutical Society membership and faculty fellowship
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience and knowledge in Critical Care medicine
- oExtensive post registration hospital experience, including the provision of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services with previous accountability for service delivery
- oExperience in successfully leading and managing a clinical pharmacy team delivering high quality clinical pharmacy services
- oExperience of managing staff (including performance management, CPD facilitation, learning needs assessment)
- oSuccessful working in a multidisciplinary team
- oExperience of successfully managing change and leading projects
- oExperience in delivering policy implementation and development of a service in order to advance clinical practice
- oExperience investigating and managing medication-related incidents
- oExperience in leading and overseeing clinical audit, QI, research
Desirable
- oEvidence of innovative working which extends the boundary of current practice
- oExperience in working with service user groups
- oExperience of shaping and contribute to the clinical governance agenda at a higher level
- oHas published in peer-reviewed journals
- oExperience of leading or contributing to national projects
- oExperience of training (incl. in collaboration with academic institutions) / education and teaching / education skills
- oExperience of contributing to national decision making E.g. NICE, UKCPA
- oA portfolio of work that has been published / presented at a national level.
Knowledge
Essential
- oDemonstrates advanced / expert knowledge of therapeutics and pharmaceutical care as relevant to Critical Care patients
- oExcellent understanding of potential risks involved with sharing care of medicines at the healthcare interfaces
- oGood understanding of the key literature relating to pharmacy practice
- oGood understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk management
- oAn awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues as appropriate
- oAble to interpret overall health service policy and strategy in order to establish goals and standards for others within the defined area(s)
- oUnderstanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
- oDemonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
Skills
Essential
- oDemonstrates strong leadership skills
- oDemonstrates ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff, multidisciplinary teams and management
- oDemonstrates ability to use skills to manage difficult and dynamic situations
- oDemonstrates ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups of patients, clinicians and senior managers
- oDemonstrates ability to make decisions in the absence of evidence or data or where there is conflicting evidence or data
- oAble to motivate and act as a role model, with mentoring and coaching skills
- oAble to convince others to share in the vision at a higher level
- oAble to interpret highly complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options
- oAble to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions
- oExcellent clinical and managerial critical appraisal skills enabling effective decision making relating to the adoption of new therapies
- oAbility to write procedures, clinical guidelines and policy / protocols and implement
- oAbility to undertake and facilitate audit, reflective practice, teaching and CPD
- oProven ability to manage change successfully demonstrated in previous post
- oEvidence of carrying out and supervising research projects
- oFluent in the use of MS Office applications
Desirable
- oEstablished across a broad range of local and national clinical networks
- oDemonstrated record of pharmacy practice research
- oDemonstrated ability to successfully present research at a national level
- oExcellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
Other
Essential
- oDBS - Enhanced check with a check of the barred lists required as patient facing may interact with adults / children
- oDecisive, using sound judgment in decision making in a timely and confident manner.
- oWorks across boundaries to build relationships and share information, plans and resources
- oHigh self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations
- oLeads by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity.
Desirable
- oMember of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- oSought as an opinion leader both within the organisation and in the external environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oMPharm or equivalent
- oRegistered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- oDiploma Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- oIndependent prescribing qualification and actively using the qualification
- oHave evidence demonstrating competencies that meet the RPS Consultant Pharmacist Curriculum (incl. the RPS Advance Pharmacy Framework competencies)
Desirable
- oManagement qualification
- oMSc in pharmacy practice or equivalent
- oRoyal Pharmaceutical Society membership and faculty fellowship
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience and knowledge in Critical Care medicine
- oExtensive post registration hospital experience, including the provision of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services with previous accountability for service delivery
- oExperience in successfully leading and managing a clinical pharmacy team delivering high quality clinical pharmacy services
- oExperience of managing staff (including performance management, CPD facilitation, learning needs assessment)
- oSuccessful working in a multidisciplinary team
- oExperience of successfully managing change and leading projects
- oExperience in delivering policy implementation and development of a service in order to advance clinical practice
- oExperience investigating and managing medication-related incidents
- oExperience in leading and overseeing clinical audit, QI, research
Desirable
- oEvidence of innovative working which extends the boundary of current practice
- oExperience in working with service user groups
- oExperience of shaping and contribute to the clinical governance agenda at a higher level
- oHas published in peer-reviewed journals
- oExperience of leading or contributing to national projects
- oExperience of training (incl. in collaboration with academic institutions) / education and teaching / education skills
- oExperience of contributing to national decision making E.g. NICE, UKCPA
- oA portfolio of work that has been published / presented at a national level.
Knowledge
Essential
- oDemonstrates advanced / expert knowledge of therapeutics and pharmaceutical care as relevant to Critical Care patients
- oExcellent understanding of potential risks involved with sharing care of medicines at the healthcare interfaces
- oGood understanding of the key literature relating to pharmacy practice
- oGood understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk management
- oAn awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues as appropriate
- oAble to interpret overall health service policy and strategy in order to establish goals and standards for others within the defined area(s)
- oUnderstanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
- oDemonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
Skills
Essential
- oDemonstrates strong leadership skills
- oDemonstrates ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff, multidisciplinary teams and management
- oDemonstrates ability to use skills to manage difficult and dynamic situations
- oDemonstrates ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups of patients, clinicians and senior managers
- oDemonstrates ability to make decisions in the absence of evidence or data or where there is conflicting evidence or data
- oAble to motivate and act as a role model, with mentoring and coaching skills
- oAble to convince others to share in the vision at a higher level
- oAble to interpret highly complex facts requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options
- oAble to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions
- oExcellent clinical and managerial critical appraisal skills enabling effective decision making relating to the adoption of new therapies
- oAbility to write procedures, clinical guidelines and policy / protocols and implement
- oAbility to undertake and facilitate audit, reflective practice, teaching and CPD
- oProven ability to manage change successfully demonstrated in previous post
- oEvidence of carrying out and supervising research projects
- oFluent in the use of MS Office applications
Desirable
- oEstablished across a broad range of local and national clinical networks
- oDemonstrated record of pharmacy practice research
- oDemonstrated ability to successfully present research at a national level
- oExcellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
Other
Essential
- oDBS - Enhanced check with a check of the barred lists required as patient facing may interact with adults / children
- oDecisive, using sound judgment in decision making in a timely and confident manner.
- oWorks across boundaries to build relationships and share information, plans and resources
- oHigh self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations
- oLeads by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity.
Desirable
- oMember of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- oSought as an opinion leader both within the organisation and in the external environment
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).
