Job summary
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals is looking to recruit a highly motivated and driven pharmacist with excellent clinical and communication skills to lead our growing Homecare and High-Cost Medicines team.
This new role has been created to better enhance service delivery in line with the Trust commitment for service innovation and investment.
Your role will be key in ensuring high quality and cost effective high-cost medicines are provided via Homecare delivery services to patients as part of the medicines optimisation strategy in close collaboration with the clinical teams, NHS England and ICB.
This is a full-time vacancy, for 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday, shifts covering between 8:45 am to 5:15 pm.
The post holder will be expected to participate in weekend/bank holiday and late duty rotas in the dispensary.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a pharmacist with significant hospital experience, ideally with a knowledge and understanding of biologic medicines.
You will need excellent organisational skills and be able to work under pressure to provide a high quality, safe and efficient service to our patients.
You must be able to work alone and as a part of the team and will manage the homecare team.
You will be required to work closely with the Trust Finance team and the ICB to ensure medicines are appropriately invoiced and provide expert high-cost and homecare service information to the chief pharmacist and senior management to support departmental operational service development and planning.
The role also includes a clinical and operational commitment to maintain a working knowledge of Trust and national processes.
About us
With a new hospital planned for Watford and work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us.
We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imaging models of care, working ever more closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.
Staff wellbeing and development are a priority at our Trust, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.
Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.
At West Herts we offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work life balance and the ability to work flexibly.
We kindly invite you to consider submitting an application.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and should you require support or guidance please contact westherts.recruitment@nhs.net.
If you are a Service Leaver, Veteran, Military Reserve, Cadet Force Adult Volunteer, or partner/spouse of those serving please tick "Member of the Armed Forces Community" on the application form.
We reserve the right to close this advert early due to the volume of applicants.
If you do not hear back within 3 weeks of your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for a full list of duties and details about the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for a full list of duties and details about the role.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications:
Essential
- Master's Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent).
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent Post graduate qualification.
- IT skills required - ability to use email, spreadsheets and basic Word processing as a minimum.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Membership of a Clinical Pharmacy organisation.
- Independent Prescriber.
Knowledge:
Essential
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Up to date knowledge of national pharmacy issues and medicines legislation.
- Critical appraisal skills.
- NHS organisational structure.
- Understanding of financial implications of high-cost medicine use.
Desirable
- Prior experience in use of biologics and biosimilar medicines.
Experience:
Essential
- Extensive relevant Pharmacy experience, including providing a clinical pharmacy service to a variety of specialties and dealing with clinical service interface issues.
- Relevant post registration experience.
- Line management experience.
Desirable
- Experience of working on biologics switching to biosimilar medicines.
- Experience of high-cost medicines and funding applications.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications:
Essential
- Master's Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent).
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent Post graduate qualification.
- IT skills required - ability to use email, spreadsheets and basic Word processing as a minimum.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Membership of a Clinical Pharmacy organisation.
- Independent Prescriber.
Knowledge:
Essential
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Up to date knowledge of national pharmacy issues and medicines legislation.
- Critical appraisal skills.
- NHS organisational structure.
- Understanding of financial implications of high-cost medicine use.
Desirable
- Prior experience in use of biologics and biosimilar medicines.
Experience:
Essential
- Extensive relevant Pharmacy experience, including providing a clinical pharmacy service to a variety of specialties and dealing with clinical service interface issues.
- Relevant post registration experience.
- Line management experience.
Desirable
- Experience of working on biologics switching to biosimilar medicines.
- Experience of high-cost medicines and funding applications.
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).
