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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On-call and weekend working (rota))
Job ref
392-RNOH-703-A
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£56,388 - £62,785 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro-rata Outer London
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Specialist Pharmacist - Pre-assessment

Band 8a

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced pharmacist to assist the Principal Pharmacist in leading and delivering an excellent clinical pharmacy service to the pre-assessment unit. This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week + on-call) to cover maternity leave for 12 months. You will have the characteristics of a self-motivated, dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking individual with excellent communication skills and a background in acute hospital pharmacy service provision such that you can provide leadership and clinical expertise to shape the pre-assessment services for the Trust.

 

Key responsibilities include:

  • Support the Principal Pharmacist to manage, develop and evaluate pharmacy services to the pre-assessment clinic (PAC)
  • Provide a high quality, safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service to the PAC
  • Manage own case load and provide expert opinion on medicines when appropriate
  • Supervise and teach pharmacists, preregistration students, undergraduate pharmacy students and pharmacy technicians in the provision of pharmacy services to the PAC
  • Assess and prioritise pharmaceutical requirements for patients reviewed at the PAC for surgical procedures
  • As an independent prescriber, prescribe medicines as appropriate within own competency

There will be opportunities to lead, undertake and publish research as part of an innovative pharmacy team.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the pharmacy and PAC multidisciplinary teams, you will:

  • Be a member of the senior pharmacy leadership team
  • Develop, monitor and review medicines related policies and guidelines
  • Assist in provision of clinical and professional leadership in delivering a highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients within PAC
  • Manage a small team of pharmacists to deliver the medicines optimisation strategy for RNOH
  • Contribute to the education and training programme for all pharmacy and clinical staff
  • Meet the department and Trust’s audit agenda and quality improvement objectives
  • Critical evaluation of medicines expenditure and financial reporting

As a registered Pharmacist you will also have a postgraduate clinical diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy along with extensive experience working within a range of clinical areas.  Experience of managing staff and leading projects is desirable.

Working for our organisation

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK, and is regarded as a leader in the field of orthopaedics both in the UK and world-wide. The comprehensive range of neuro-musculoskeletal health care is unique within the NHS and ranges from the most acute spinal injury or complex bone tumour to orthopaedic medicine and specialist rehabilitation for chronic back pain.

The RNOH Pharmacy provides a comprehensive array of pharmacy services with the overall aim of providing outstanding patient care and safe, effective and economical use of medicines throughout the Trust as well as supporting education and training and promoting research.

The RNOH medicines optimisation strategy is varied, interesting and rewarding. This ranges from core clinical service provision, through to individual pharmacist clinical caseload management in clinics such as rheumatology/homecare, pre-operative assessment, outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) and chronic pain.

The opportunity exists for you to join a patient focused, forward thinking and highly motivated team of specialist clinical pharmacists, independent prescribing pharmacists, medicines optimisation technicians and pharmacy assistants in delivering high quality, safe and effective pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to patients and service users. The RNOH pharmacy department is a friendly, close-knit team where everyone is willing to offer a helping hand.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details of duties and responsibilities.

Key relationships include:

  • Pharmacy team
  • Clinical & administrative staff involved with PAC
  • All healthcare professionals’ especially medical and nursing staff
  • Patients and their carers
  • ePMA, EPR and Digital Transformation teams
  • Finance Department
  • ICB and primary care representatives
  • Other NHS organisations
  • External customers
  • Regional and national NHSE teams
  • Research partners at other national and international organisations

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalen
  • Member of the GPhC
  • Higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
  • Independent Prescriber qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Member of the RPS
  • Member of UKCPA
  • Appropriate short management courses
  • Specialist courses/ experience in the specialist areas of anticoagulation, haemostasis, anaemia

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner, preferably within a surgical environmen
  • Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options and dosage regimens for patients receiving medicines in these specialist areas
  • Practical clinical experience
  • Previous experience in delivering training and education
  • Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
  • Directorate pharmacist experience including working with clinicians
  • Financial evaluation and reporting
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience in pre-assessment
  • Undertaking research and publications (the postholder will be expected to actively participate in research and evaluation with a view to publication)
  • Track record of successful funding applications for research purposes
  • Recruitment, management and induction of staff
  • Experience of service improvement

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good clinical practice knowledge of pre-operative assessment
  • A good understanding of national and local priorities
  • Good ability to analyse medicine usage reports

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Anjna Patel
Job title
Principal Pharmacist, Pre-assessment
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02089095410
Additional information

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