Job summary
- Main area
- WXH Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 259-6021547WXH-B
- Employer
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whipps Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Pharmacist- SDEC & ED
Band 8a
Job overview
The Barts Pharmacy Department are looking for a dynamic and energetic individual who is ambitious and forward-thinking with clinical experience in acute and emergency medicine to join our Pharmacy team at Whipps Cross University Hospital. The post holder will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to patients admitted to the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit and acute medicine with support to the Emergency Department to promote the optimised, safe and cost-effective use of medicines.
You will be a core member of the pharmacy team and the Trust’s acute and emergency care team, providing professional pharmaceutical governance, medicines safety, medicines information, medicines finance, education and training and medicines optimisation support to the team and the service’s patients.
Additionally, the successful candidate will play a key role in establishing a seamless 7-day working schedule, ensuring continuous pharmaceutical support and enhancing patient care. The goal is to develop a 7 day Pharmacy service across the acute and emergency areas and the post holder, along with other team members, would work towards supporting a flexible working pattern across 7 days. This would be negotiated with the post holder.
We welcome applications from individuals with excellent communications skills who demonstrate a patient-centred focus and compassionate and collaborative leadership.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will carry out the full range of duties as the Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Emergency Medicine to deliver patient focused, quality care, based at Whipps Cross University Hospital.
The pharmacist will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to patients admitted to the Emergency Department, Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit and acute medicine areas under the care of Barts Health NHS Trust to promote the optimised, safe and cost-effective use of medicines. You will be a core member of the Trust’s emergency care team, providing professional pharmaceutical governance, medicines safety, medicines information, medicines finance, education and training and medicines optimisation support to the team and the service’s patients. You will build relationships and work with internal stakeholders and external partners to support the delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical care to all patients
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- • Proven experience of good performance in previous posts
- • Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
- • Experience and knowledge of developing guidelines/protocols
- • Experience of developing and reviewing patient group directions and shared care guidelines
- • Experience of providing evaluated information on drug expenditure
- • Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. pre-registration / foundation training pharmacists/other staff groups
- • Successful experience of managing & leading projects
- • Experience of providing prescribing advice
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working at interfaces of care
- • Experience of working with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) systems
- • Experience of successfully managing staff, performing appraisals and giving feedback
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Effective verbal and written communication skills
- • Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
- • Assertive, diplomatic, persuasive with ability to negotiate.
- • Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
- • Data analysis skills
- • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
- • Ability to manage time effectively and work to deadlines
- • Demonstrates initiative to work independently and as part of a team
- • Able to work unsupervised, follow written instruction and work under pressure
- • IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
- • Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
- • Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training
- • Ability to motivate and act as a role model
- • Ability to identify when advice needs to be sought
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
- • Knowledge of medicines management systems
- • Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- • Understanding of stock control systems
- • Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
- • Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- • Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- • Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of interface issues relevant to the patient group
- • Knowledge of risk management issues relevant to the patient group and root cause analysis
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • MPharm or equivalent
- • Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- • Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- • Independent prescribing qualification, or willing to work towards
- • Accreditation on the RPS Advanced Specialist Curriculum, Advanced Pharmacy Framework or equivalent, or willing to work towards
Desirable criteria
- • MSc in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
Other
Essential criteria
- • DBS - Enhanced check with a check of the barred lists required as patient facing and may interact with adults / children
- • Reliable with a good attendance record
- • Flexibility with regards to working hours for late and early meetings
- • Ability to drive and make patient home visits when necessary
- • Access to a vehicle
- • Ability to work alone – as may be required for patient home visits
- • Demonstrable commitment to CPD
- • Highly motivated and reliable
- • Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust
- • Ability to work evenings, weekends, bank holidays or backup oncall duties (as required by the department)
Desirable criteria
- • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS
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
- Nilofer Patel
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Pharmacy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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