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 postholder will lead on patient safety and clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines management, including EPMA and Controlled Drugs, across the Trust.
The postholder will lead on the review and evaluation of clinical risk and critical incidents, including trends, relating to medicines use within the Trust. The postholder will be responsible for dissemination of learning relating to risks, including risk prevention.
The post holder will contribute to the production of departmental and Trust policies, guidelines, standard operating procedures, reports, updates and bulletins, relating to patient safety and clinical governance, as appropriate.
The postholder will be a member of a number of groups and committees concerned with patient safety, medication safety and clinical governance within NMUHT and also across the ICS.
The post holder will be the responsible pharmacist and professional lead for the dispensary and ensure all dispensary activities are carried out to recognised acceptable standards. The post holder will lead, deliver, develop and evaluate pharmacy dispensary services provision to the Trust and provide professional leadership to the dispensary-based pharmacists. The post holder will hold overall responsibility for setting and maintaining clinical standards of inpatient and outpatient dispensary services.
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 see full details of this post and the essential experience in the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see full details of this post and the essential experience in the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- BPharm/MPharm or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to critically review services and processes
- 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 demonstrate appropriate knowledge and application of pharmacy related national and legal requirements
- Ability to lead the service
- Ability to motivate, influence and persuade staff, build team
- Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
- Ability to resolve conflict and deal with complaints
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
Experience
Essential
- Significant years post-registration experience
- Relevant hospital pharmacy experience
- Managing dispensary
- Management experience
- Leading and Implementing change
- Performance management and audit experience
- Project management experience
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Recent Clinical Pharmacy/Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Understanding of Formulary & Drug Usage Review and clinical trial issues
- Understanding of risk management issues within pharmacy and in healthcare service
- Ability to manage out of specification results, review them and develop action plans to resolve them
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively
- 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
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Others
Essential
- oAble to do Late duty, Weekend duties and bank holidays as rostered and to participate in the out of hours service if required
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- BPharm/MPharm or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to critically review services and processes
- 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 demonstrate appropriate knowledge and application of pharmacy related national and legal requirements
- Ability to lead the service
- Ability to motivate, influence and persuade staff, build team
- Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
- Ability to resolve conflict and deal with complaints
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
Experience
Essential
- Significant years post-registration experience
- Relevant hospital pharmacy experience
- Managing dispensary
- Management experience
- Leading and Implementing change
- Performance management and audit experience
- Project management experience
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Recent Clinical Pharmacy/Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Understanding of Formulary & Drug Usage Review and clinical trial issues
- Understanding of risk management issues within pharmacy and in healthcare service
- Ability to manage out of specification results, review them and develop action plans to resolve them
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively
- 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
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Others
Essential
- oAble to do Late duty, Weekend duties and bank holidays as rostered and to participate in the out of hours service if required
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).
