Job summary
The Pharmacy Service at St George's is highly regarded across the Trust and South West London region, with around 270 staff members working closely with multi-disciplinary teams. The department is innovative, dynamic, forward thinking and constantly expanding. We are proud of the clinical pharmacy services we deliver and our patients are at the centre of everything we do.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist with a passion for high quality patient care to support the provision, development and evaluation of our Cardiovascular and Lipid Disorder services. This is an exceptional career opportunity for a high calibre pharmacist looking to further advance their career and develop leadership, autonomy, clinical and prescribing skills at a fast paced, challenging and rewarding environment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will need to be flexible and organised, be able to align their values with those of the organisation and work well within a team. The successful candidate will work to ensure the continued provision and development of high quality, comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to patients as well as influence senior managers and clinicians within the Cardiovascular and Lipid services.
Key activities:
Act as the Specialist Pharmacist for Cardiovascular Diseases and Lipid Disorders directorates including pharmacist led clinics and cardiovascular homecare services.
Provide expert advice and support in their specialist field to colleagues to identify, stratify and optimise treatment pathways.
Contribute to the strategic planning of Cardiovascular Services and Lipid Disorders.
Deputise for the Principal Pharmacist and represent the team within the organisation and across interface boundaries.
In conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist, manage and implement services designed to improve the pharmaceutical care to patients and extend the boundaries of clinical practice.
Identify, support and participate in financial reporting and drug budget management within the relevant directorate.
Progress service improvement initiatives through multi-disciplinary working to ensure safe and timely provision of medicines.
To participate in service metric collection, clinical audit, research, risk management and clinical guideline development
About us
With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totaling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****
For further information / informal visits: Please contact Johnson Lei (Principal Pharmacist Critical Care and Cardiovascular Services) at iao.lei@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****
For further information / informal visits: Please contact Johnson Lei (Principal Pharmacist Critical Care and Cardiovascular Services) at iao.lei@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist
- Master's degree (MSc) in pharmacy or equivalent
- MSc or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent clinical pharmacy qualifications
- Qualified Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable
- Post graduate master's qualification in a relevant pharmacy subject
- Membership of professional groups and/or relevant specialist societies
- Membership of RPS
- Educational supervisor accreditation
- Diploma tutor accreditation
- Formal management training
- Genomics modules
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates a good core knowledge of therapeutics and pharmacology with a record of successful application in current post
- Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to ward/clinic-based situation.
- Evidence of on-going continuous professional development
- Demonstrates awareness of a commitment to Clinical Governance
- Demonstrates an awareness of interface issues
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- Ability to demonstrate expertise in lipid disorders and cardiovascular disease prevention
Desirable
- Evidence of active contribution to relevant specialist interest groups
- Aware of latest evidence and research within cardiology and ability to apply evidence-based practice into patient care.
- Record of research and/or audit and/or scholarly publications
- Membership of regional / national / international specialist interest groups relevant to field of practice
Skills
Essential
- Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Teaching / tutoring skills
- Effective organisation and time management skills
- Good IT skills
- Effective report writing skills
Desirable
- Project management skills
- Ability to critically analyse and apply research to the clinical setting
- Experience in directorate management
Experience
Essential
- Ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of cardiovascular drugs.
- Experience of having managed an area of clinical pharmacy services and deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
- Experience in outpatient clinics
- Evidence of leading programmes of education and training
- Involvement in development of evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols
- Extended clinical practice underpinned by training and assessment
- Experience of both undertaking and supervising audit of clinical practice
- Experience as a directorate pharmacist
Desirable
- Specialist clinical pharmacy experience in a relevant area
- Experience of managing a team
- Practice Research experience
- Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 2/3 environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist
- Master's degree (MSc) in pharmacy or equivalent
- MSc or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent clinical pharmacy qualifications
- Qualified Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable
- Post graduate master's qualification in a relevant pharmacy subject
- Membership of professional groups and/or relevant specialist societies
- Membership of RPS
- Educational supervisor accreditation
- Diploma tutor accreditation
- Formal management training
- Genomics modules
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates a good core knowledge of therapeutics and pharmacology with a record of successful application in current post
- Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to ward/clinic-based situation.
- Evidence of on-going continuous professional development
- Demonstrates awareness of a commitment to Clinical Governance
- Demonstrates an awareness of interface issues
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- Ability to demonstrate expertise in lipid disorders and cardiovascular disease prevention
Desirable
- Evidence of active contribution to relevant specialist interest groups
- Aware of latest evidence and research within cardiology and ability to apply evidence-based practice into patient care.
- Record of research and/or audit and/or scholarly publications
- Membership of regional / national / international specialist interest groups relevant to field of practice
Skills
Essential
- Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Teaching / tutoring skills
- Effective organisation and time management skills
- Good IT skills
- Effective report writing skills
Desirable
- Project management skills
- Ability to critically analyse and apply research to the clinical setting
- Experience in directorate management
Experience
Essential
- Ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of cardiovascular drugs.
- Experience of having managed an area of clinical pharmacy services and deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
- Experience in outpatient clinics
- Evidence of leading programmes of education and training
- Involvement in development of evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols
- Extended clinical practice underpinned by training and assessment
- Experience of both undertaking and supervising audit of clinical practice
- Experience as a directorate pharmacist
Desirable
- Specialist clinical pharmacy experience in a relevant area
- Experience of managing a team
- Practice Research experience
- Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 2/3 environment
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
