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8A Highly Specialist Adult Cystic Fibrosis Respiratory Pharmacist

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Bart’s Health NHS Trust

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours a week including weekend and bank holiday commitments)

 Barts Health is a tertiary referral centre providing high quality complex care to a range of respiratory specialities.

We are looking for someone who is dynamic, passionate about patient care and committed to innovation, clinical leadership and quality improvement to join our respiratory team as a fixed term 8-month maternity cover.

We are well embedded MDT members of our specialist teams within the respiratory directorate. We are constantly innovating and developing pharmacist led clinics and projects across Severe Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Tuberculosis, NTM-PD and ILD to name a few.

The ideal candidate will also have a proven ability to deliver on high quality clinical pharmacy service while managing the adult CF specialist service for both in and outpatients. A demonstrable interest in clinical or pharmacy research is essential.

If you are interested and would like to know more, please take a look at the JD and contact Christabelle Chen, Lead Respiratory Pharmacist on [email protected]

  The job advert will be out for 2 weeks and all shortlisted candidates will be given a week’s notice to the interview date.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry out the full range of duties  as a highly specialist clinical pharmacist to deliver patient focused, quality care, based at one of the four main hospital sites.

The principle objective of this role is to provide patient focused pharmaceutical care, defined as the responsible provision of medication to achieve definite outcomes that improve patient’s quality of life.  The post holder communicates effectively with patients to help optimise their pharmaceutical management and through liaising with other health care professionals to design, implement and monitor therapeutic plans to optimise health outcomes.

To assist lead pharmacists for the relevant clinical area, in promoting high quality, cost-effective and safe prescribing. The post holder will provide pharmaceutical services to the clinical areas relevant to the specialist area of the rotation and to the hospital site involved.

The post holder will participate in education and training for pharmacists in the pharmacy team at Bart’s Health, and will assist in the provision and development of clinical pharmacy within the service.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment..

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.