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
The Lead Pharmacist for Rheumatology / Gastroenterology (including endoscopy),
- Is responsible for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service to these speciality areas.
- Is responsible for providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy practice and being a pharmacy role model.
- Is responsible for providing highly specialist service to Rheumatology, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Service for in and outpatients and day cases e.g. bespoke Medicine Management schemes.
- Is responsible for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety - clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines and advises on drug budget management in these areas
- Provides support as required to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicine information services and medicines management programme.
- Assists in planning and delivery of education and training within the pharmacy department and Rheumatology, Gastroenterology and other areas as appropriate.
- Carries out pharmacy practice research and clinical audit in this area of practice.
- Manages the pharmacy team working in this speciality area.
About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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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
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
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
- Ability to demonstrate CPD
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of medicines requirement
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice eg controlled drugs, health and safety at work
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
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
- Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
- 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
Desirable
- Performance Management experience
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English
- Demonstrates effective customer service skills
- 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
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
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
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
- Ability to demonstrate CPD
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of medicines requirement
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice eg controlled drugs, health and safety at work
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
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
- Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
- 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
Desirable
- Performance Management experience
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English
- Demonstrates effective customer service skills
- 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
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
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).
