Senior Specialist Pharmacist, Intestinal Rehabilitation and Nutrition

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist to work as part of our intestinalrehabilitation team at St Mark's Hospital. This is a 12 month fixed term post to covera maternity leave. St Mark's Hospital is based across the Northwick Park and CentralMiddlesex Hospital sites. The post holder will mostly be based at Northwick ParkHospital with the occasional need to work at the Central Middlesex Hospital.The post will support patients with intestinal failure as inpatients and as outpatients.These patients required nutritional support either given via the oral, enteral and orparenteral route. This patient cohort has complex pharmaceutical needs with specialconsideration needed around pharmacokinetics and drug absorption. In both ofthese areas the pharmacist has a key role in maintain patient safety, ensuringeffective therapy and research. Many advances have been made in our clinicalpharmacy practice over the years and this post will continue to support theseadvances.Full training will be given by the MDT. We are looking for a pharmacist who is a quicklearner, has experience within gastroenterology, surgery and or nutritional support,or someone who wants to gain experience in a new clinical area. You must be ableto work well with others and be able to work by yourself.The successful candidate will be expected to participate in weekend (Saturday andSundays), late duty and bank holiday rota

Main duties of the job

The post holder's main responsibilities will include:-

• Working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure high quality pharmaceutical care to all patients within gastroenterology and colorectal specialties. This care should be seamless across healthcare boundaries.
• Supporting PN services at St Mark's Hospital (this covers Northwick Park but may require support at Central Middlesex Hospital)
• Provide specialist high level pharmaceutical care to all patients, including inpatients, outpatients and day cases at St Mark's either directly or by supervision of staff.
• Participating and contributing to nutrition clinics and MDT meetings
• Undertaking and implementing clinical audits.
• Taking part in research as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Helping to deliver, develop and evaluate pharmacy services to St Mark's Hospital in accordance with appropriate Trust and Hospital objectives in conjunction with the lead pharmacist
• Compiling budget reports and taking forward any actions needed
• Line manage and support the growth and development of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.