Lead Education and Training Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Education:

Identify and develop suitable practice and educational supervisors for training programmes in line with the department local Education & Training strategy.

Responsible for organising educational sessions e.g., journal clubs, case studies, tutorials, training sessions, external courses, reflective practice, and clinical supervision.

Co-ordinate and plan the induction programmes for new cancer pharmacy staff to ensure new starters are trained and accredited sufficiently to undertake their respective roles safely and effectively.

Directly train new pharmacy professionals on BOPA Cancer Pharmacy Education & Training Standards and all aspects of clinical pharmacy services

To develop, evaluate and coordinate the pharmacy elements of the nurses, doctors induction and mandatory training and selected elements of higher-level training.

To evaluate, coordinate and continually improve the training and accreditation programmes for cancer clinical pharmacy staff, whilst ensuring accreditation records are kept. The training and development needs of individuals must meet requirements for the current and future delivery of the Pharmacy service.

To support networking of professionals across the organisations, help to build a workforce who share best practice, encourage innovation and high performance - ultimately leading to better patient care, experience, and outcomes.

To collaborate with higher education providers and national education and training bodies to develop marketable specialist education and training courses.

Develop teacher practitioner and educational supervisor roles with the University of Manchester, ensuring teaching on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes is delivered.

To support cancer pharmacy leads in the delivery of both external and in-house training programmes to enable pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and Foundation year Pharmacists / pre-registration technicians to meet their professional requirements and developmental needs.

Regularly evaluate effectiveness of training interventions introduced or provided.

To identify own training and personal development needs. To maintain a clinical expertise and develop areas of interest as appropriate and relevant to the substantive role and in accordance with the Organisation and Pharmacy strategy.

Act as a Practice Supervisor as required thus supervising and directing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the delivery of high-class pharmacy service.

To be actively involved and coordinate training / teaching programmes, practice research and clinical or service improvement audits.

To take responsibility for the recruitment and line management of foundation year pharmacists including those on the split industry scheme

Responsible for the co-ordination of school/college work experience and foreign pharmacist clinical internships

Responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of training for undergraduate university students including educational sessions, placements and research / project opportunities in collaboration with universities.

Service Development and Leadership:

• Conducts complex planning and organises provision of highly specialist service, plans & organises research opportunities, multidisciplinary teaching and audit to maintain and further develop strategies for service provision in order to meet the changing requirements of the Trust.
• Establish a series of performance targets against which the success of the post will be measured and reviewed on an ongoing basis.

• Demonstrate strong and effective leadership by promoting and modelling leadership behaviours.
• Promote the specialist pharmacy service through building links and relationships across the Trust.
• Identifies and develops service development opportunities. Take a pro-active role in the development and implementation of services in accordance with local, Trust and national requirements.

Work collaboratively with other organisations to encourage and support the implementation of creative and innovative service models to improve healthcare inequality and drive efficiencies across the system.

Expert Practitioner:

To provide highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to a disease group and wider MDT in accordance with all departmental, Trust and national standards, procedures and policies.

Provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical expertise and clinical advice to optimise individual patient care through participation in the multidisciplinary team meetings, consultant ward rounds and outpatient clinics.

• To demonstrate the ability to apply expert clinical knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning and judgement in the management of complex cases.
• To manage difficult and ambiguous clinical problems and make decisions with limited information, or where the evidence is lacking within scope of competence.

Accountable for own professional actions: guided by national protocols, legislation, hospital formularies; lead specialist in own area.

Communicates highly complex drug or medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients, relatives, some of which maybe highly sensitive or complex in nature and may be challenged. The post holder must have the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills due to the nature of the role undertaking consultations often in highly emotive circumstances.

• To be trained as a pharmacist independent prescriber and prescribe to appropriate patients in agreement with the relevant Consultants.
• To work autonomously and demonstrate accountability in managing own clinical caseload.
• Documents consultation outcomes / interventions / advice regarding patient care in the medical notes and report medication errors via the Trusts incident reporting system
• Utilisation and working knowledge of multiple EPMA systems, Trust resources and medicines information databases to facilitate a personalised approach to patient care.
• Work in partnership with patients and their carer(s) to improve their understanding of medications and addressing any issues around adherence or polypharmacy.

Medicines Management:

Responsible for the development and implementation of the disease group medicines optimisation agenda and all associated policies and guidelines.

Collaborate with the lead Consultants to develop a specialist medicines work plan and guideline which can be utilised within the Trust and as a reference across the GM Cancer Network.

In conjunction with the lead consultants, submits new drug applications to DTC and Chairs approval requests for named patient funding, thereby minimising delay to the patient.

• Promote UKMi-approved medicines information resources to support clinicians within the Trust in the safe and evidence-based prescribing of drugs.
• Make sustainable choices around medicines where appropriate to reduce carbon footprint of the Trust and help the NHS supply chain achieve the net zero target.

Qualifications

Essential

• Vocational master's degree in pharmacy
• GPhC registered pharmacist
• Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Independent prescribing qualification
• Training qualification e.g., accredited trainers' scheme
• Planning and delivering training

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Post graduate education qualification.
• Leadership or management qualification or working towards one.

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-registration experience within an NHS hospital setting
• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services and highly specialist advice
• Experience of leading and managing change projects to improve services.
• Audit, project management and research experience
• Experience of training staff, setting, and delivering objectives
• Experience of leading on medication governance and medication safety
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience of objective setting for other members of staff
• Line management experience with direct line management and appraisals

Desirable

• Audit work
• Clinical governance
• Research publications
• Experience of working in education

Skills

Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills to include communication of complex information
• Ability to provide highly complex information on Pharmacy Service issues and impart knowledge to and influence all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor/executive director level)
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Self-motivating
• Ability to manage and implement change.
• High level of analytical and reflective skills
• Ability to train and act as mentor to other members of staff.
• Experience in undertaking research and development including audit in conjunction with University of Manchester
• Supervision and mentorship of others conducting audit in partnership with University of Manchester
• Regular complex audits carried out presenting to national peer group.
• Ability to identify own training and development needs.
• Ability to prioritise workload, work accurately, positively, and calmly under pressure, and meet deadlines.
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office software and ability to use search engines/medical databases to retrieve information.
• Awareness and compliance with funding mechanisms for medicines to ensure best value.

Desirable

• Project implementation experience
• Advanced communication skills
• Evidence of consultation skills
• Clinical trials experience and/or GCP training

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the Medicines Management, Clinical Governance and Modernisation agendas of the NHS
• Sound medicines and clinical knowledge. Cost effective use of medicines and medicines management.
• Highly specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialist area.
• Knowledge of financial reporting and budget statement
• Knowledge of regulations and legislation relevant to Pharmacy Services

Values

Essential

• Strive to deliver excellence and quality in work.
• Seek ways to continually improve
• Take responsibility for the development of others and support them to flourish and grow in their careers. Inspiring shared learning and making time to reflect on how we do things.
• Take time for team to come together and share their success and their feelings of achievement.

Other

Essential

• Flexible working hours
• Ability to work under a high level of pressure, managing manage conflict and complaints, prioritising tasks and time effectively, but also dealing with frequent interruptions
• Required to contribute to all pharmacy OOH services (evening, weekend and BH rotas, plus emergency on-call service)
• May be required to work at any site that the Trust treats patients

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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).