Job summary
- Main area
- Haematology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 23 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-1392
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,471 - £50,364 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/05/2024
Employer heading
Specialist Pharmacy Technician, Sickle Cell
Band 6
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
A unique opportunity to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a Specialist Sickle Cell Pharmacist to enhance and improve community and emergency services for sickle cell patients.
NHS England has funded Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to function as one of four pilot ‘hyper-acute units’ across London over the next two years, with the aim of helping sickle cell patients gain direct access to specialist care that will enable prompt pain relief during painful crisis. The unit will be pivotal in supporting the emergency pathway for our specialist patients, ensuring their complex healthcare needs are met within a responsive framework that improves overall patient experience. This is an opportunity to lead and develop clinically focused pharmaceutical services to the "hyper-acute" unit and support community services to increase the level of support and care provided to sickle cell patients.
Main duties of the job
- To lead in the provision of a high quality patient focused medicines management service to patients with sickle cell disease.
- To work collaboratively with the sickle cell multi-disciplinary team in primary and secondary care to review and evaluate services, and identify and promote best practice.
- To support the continuing drive to improve medicines use and safety for sickle cell patients in primary and secondary care.
- To improve continuity of care for sickle cell patients between primary and secondary care.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (pharmacy technician)
Desirable criteria
- Short courses relevant to practice, to include supervisory/management qualification
- Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel software
- NVQ or equivalent assessor qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience of working in a UK hospital; this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy
- Experience working as a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician in a busy clinical environment
Desirable criteria
- Practical experience with an electronic in-patient prescribing system
- Experience of training of nursing and/or medical staff
- Experience of using Quality Improvement tools in practical environment
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to analyse and interpret information relating to medicines and their uses
- Be able to provide information and advice to distressed patients in a calm and empathetic manner
- Ability to identify the scope of a problem, consider options for solution, select solution and review outcomes
- Ability to plan workload of a team and delegate tasks appropriately
Desirable criteria
- Able to influence others through a logical and reasoned approach
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ritti Desai
- Job title
- Senior Lead Haematology Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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