Senior Specialist Pharmacist, Intestinal Rehabilitation and Nutrition

Job summary

This post is a fixed term role to cover a maternity leave within the pharmacy team at St Mark's 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 or parenteral route. This patient cohort has complex pharmaceutical needs with special consideration needed around pharmacokinetics and drug absorption. In both of these areas the pharmacist has a key role in maintain patient safety, ensuring effective therapy and research. Many advances have been made in our clinical pharmacy practice over the years this post will continue to support these advances.

Full training will be given by the MDT. We are looking for a pharmacist who is a quick learner, has experience within gastroenterology, surgery and or nutritional support. Or someone who wants to gain experience in a new clinical area. You must be able to work well with others and be able to work by yourself.

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in weekend (Saturday and Sundays), late duty and bank holiday rota. There may be some cross site working at Northwick Park to cover nutrition outlier ward rounds in the absence of other staff.

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.
• 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.