Job summary
We are pleased to advertise a permanent full time Band 7 Pharmacist vacancy in the Harrison Wing HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) Pharmacy team.
The post will allow individual to further enhance their HIV knowledge, skills and experience necessary to develop towards becoming a highly specialist pharmacist in HIV and SRH.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic pharmacist with a specialist interest in HIV with demonstrable competencies in hospital pharmacy practice, excellent communication skills and a demonstrable commitment to the holistic pharmaceutical care.
A postgraduate certificate in Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent) is a pre-requisite. Experience of working in a HIV clinic is nota pre-requisite but your application should demonstrate activities indicating a strong passion for this specialist field.
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached Job Description for full details of the post
Main duties
- Outpatients - screening prescriptions, managing patient and staff enquiries, triaging unwell patients presenting to pharmacy for escalation in care, liaising with the outsourced pharmacy, undertaking pharmacist-led prescribing clinics to: start/switch ART, monitor recent ART starts/switches, and stable patients
- Inpatients -reviewing complex admissions, managing queries from nursing, medical and pharmacy teams of other specialties, attending HIV MDT ward rounds
- MDT-working -participating in research and audits, leading on and participating in quality improvement projects, chairing ART MDT review meetings
Key qualities
- Enthusiastic, driven, resilient, friendly
- Patient-focused and going the extra mile where necessary
- Naturally demonstrates the behaviours associated our Trust values
- Passion for innovation, service r-design and quality improvement
- Works collaboratively as well as autonomously (where appropriate) with the HIV Pharmacy team and the wider HIV MDT
- Excellent time-management and prioritisation skills
- Promotes equality, diversity and inclusion
About us
About the HIV and SRH departments and teams
Locations and Services
The HIV department (Harrison Wing Department) is based at Guy's hospital in London Bridge opposite the Shard and the train station and provides a service to approximately 4500 patients. The Harrison Wing Department hosts over 18 specialist HIV clinics, in addition to the pharmacist-led clinics, including:
- Neuro-cognition and psychiatric
- Hepatitis
- Renal
- Living Well (for ageing and metabolic conditions)
- Young Adults
- VIP (vulnerable patients)
- Stigmatized patients (off-site clinic)
Adult inpatients can be on any site but are predominantly admitted to wards at the St. Thomas' Hospital site in Southbank opposite the Houses of Parliament. As a result, there will be cross-site cover, either virtually or in-person. Child/infant inpatients are cared for by the Evelina Children's Hospital.
The SRH department provides integrated sexual healthcare from three locations (Burrell Street Sexual Health Centre, Streatham Hill Clinic & Walworth Road Clinic). The post-holder will provide support virtually for the SRH department as necessary. The vacancy role is, in most part, focused on HIV services.
The Pharmacy department has three hubs onsite with several spoke sites throughout the Trust and the community. The HIV Pharmacy is one of these spokes, integrated into the clinic, and this is where the post-holder will be based.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This specialist pharmacist role is designed to provide the pharmacist with the specialist skills, knowledge and experience they need in order to develop into a Highly Specialist Pharmacist in HIV/SRH. The role will also develop skills and experience in quality improvement/service redesign. It is expected that the Specialist Pharmacist will ensure the safe and clinically effective use of medicines for patients living with HIV.
Please see the job description and person specification for the full range of duties for the role
Job description
Job responsibilities
This specialist pharmacist role is designed to provide the pharmacist with the specialist skills, knowledge and experience they need in order to develop into a Highly Specialist Pharmacist in HIV/SRH. The role will also develop skills and experience in quality improvement/service redesign. It is expected that the Specialist Pharmacist will ensure the safe and clinically effective use of medicines for patients living with HIV.
Please see the job description and person specification for the full range of duties for the role
Person Specification
Professional Registration and Memberships
Essential
Desirable
- RPS member
- HIVPA member
- BHIVA member
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm degree or equivalent
- PGCert in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- PGDip or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- GPhC registered independent prescriber
Clinical Practice
Essential
- Experience in providing pharmaceutical care to a range of patient groups - general/acute medical/surgical patients
- Ability to recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options to members of the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to identify and manage risks
- Demonstrates good level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- Enhances the quality of patient care
Desirable
- Experience in providing pharmaceutical care to people living with HIV
- Ability to identify and prioritise clinical and operational work
- Holistic approach to patient care
- Implement national guidance and other commissioning policies in practice
- Ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these
Education and Training
Essential
- Maintain a portfolio of practice
- Identify own training needs
- Evaluate the training provided
- Provide education and training to pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals
Desirable
- Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Experience of delivery of education and training at graduate level
Research and Development
Essential
- Use of clinical audit to improve practice
- Ability to develop an idea into a project
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work
Desirable
- Experience in quality improvement project
- Integrate research evidence into practice
- Able to critically appraise clinical papers to produce evidence-based evaluation of treatments
- Presented (oral or poster) at national or international conferences
- Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
- Undertake own research
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
Teamwork and Management
Essential
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda
- Meets set targets
- Demonstrates the ability to deliver medicines optimisation
- Works well in a team - support, flexibility, shared vision, shared workload
Desirable
- Ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities
- Can work autonomously and take initiative
- Experience in management of others
- Experience in finance/commissioning reporting of drug-spend
- Experience in working collaboratively with outsourced pharmacy providers (not including homecare)
- Works adaptively across traditional boundaries
Person Specification
Professional Registration and Memberships
Essential
Desirable
- RPS member
- HIVPA member
- BHIVA member
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm degree or equivalent
- PGCert in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- PGDip or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- GPhC registered independent prescriber
Clinical Practice
Essential
- Experience in providing pharmaceutical care to a range of patient groups - general/acute medical/surgical patients
- Ability to recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options to members of the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to identify and manage risks
- Demonstrates good level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- Enhances the quality of patient care
Desirable
- Experience in providing pharmaceutical care to people living with HIV
- Ability to identify and prioritise clinical and operational work
- Holistic approach to patient care
- Implement national guidance and other commissioning policies in practice
- Ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these
Education and Training
Essential
- Maintain a portfolio of practice
- Identify own training needs
- Evaluate the training provided
- Provide education and training to pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals
Desirable
- Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Experience of delivery of education and training at graduate level
Research and Development
Essential
- Use of clinical audit to improve practice
- Ability to develop an idea into a project
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work
Desirable
- Experience in quality improvement project
- Integrate research evidence into practice
- Able to critically appraise clinical papers to produce evidence-based evaluation of treatments
- Presented (oral or poster) at national or international conferences
- Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
- Undertake own research
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
Teamwork and Management
Essential
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda
- Meets set targets
- Demonstrates the ability to deliver medicines optimisation
- Works well in a team - support, flexibility, shared vision, shared workload
Desirable
- Ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities
- Can work autonomously and take initiative
- Experience in management of others
- Experience in finance/commissioning reporting of drug-spend
- Experience in working collaboratively with outsourced pharmacy providers (not including homecare)
- Works adaptively across traditional boundaries
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
