Job summary
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledge of the medicines optimisation agenda.
Main duties of the job
This post is 50/50 split between virtual ward and community wards
In this role you will:
- Lead, manage and develop clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to virtual and community wards
- Provide regular, direct, patient facing clinical pharmacy services within virtual wards and other clinical areas
- Provide medicines related training to healthcare professionals
- Participate and contribute to the relevant governance, quality and safety meetings, and help deliver the medicines safety agenda within virtual /community wards and pharmacy services
- Liaise with primary care to ensure seamless transfer of care for patients
About us
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or working to or equivalent
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy may be contentious or complex
- Ability to innovate and implement change
- Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
- Ability to work with other colleagues as part of a team
- Ability to resolve conflict
- Ability to show Initiative
- Time & project management skills
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Recent Clinical Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process
- Experience of teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others eg Trainee pharmacists/Foundation training pharmacists/other staff gorup
- Ability to critically review services and Processes
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English
- Good team worker
- Assertive and diplomatic
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Shows empathy towards patients/carers
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiastic, self-motivating, hardworking and conscientious
- Reliable with a good attendance record
- Ability to work under pressure
Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities
Other requirments
Essential
- Able to do Late duty, Weekend duties, bank holidays or oncall duties as rostered
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or working to or equivalent
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy may be contentious or complex
- Ability to innovate and implement change
- Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
- Ability to work with other colleagues as part of a team
- Ability to resolve conflict
- Ability to show Initiative
- Time & project management skills
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Recent Clinical Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process
- Experience of teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others eg Trainee pharmacists/Foundation training pharmacists/other staff gorup
- Ability to critically review services and Processes
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English
- Good team worker
- Assertive and diplomatic
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Shows empathy towards patients/carers
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiastic, self-motivating, hardworking and conscientious
- Reliable with a good attendance record
- Ability to work under pressure
Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities
Other requirments
Essential
- Able to do Late duty, Weekend duties, bank holidays or oncall duties as rostered
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).
