Job summary
Specialist Pharmacist - Emergency Department & Sickle Cell Ambulatory Care, Band 7
Emergency Department, Royal London Hospital
A unique opportunity to join Barts Health NHS Trust as a Specialist Pharmacist working in the Emergency Department (ED) to support the Sickle Cell Ambulatory Care unit in the Royal London Hospital to enhance and improve community and emergency services for sickle cell patients.
You will work closely with medical and nursing staff and the wider multidisciplinary team in ED with a focus on the newly launched Sickle Cell Ambulatory Care Unit on a wide range of medicines optimisation matters, and to ensure standardisation of medicine optimisation and management policies and procedures wherever appropriate.
The Sickle Cell Ambulatory Care Unit within the Emergency Department will play a crucial role in the North East London Sickle Cell Transformation pilot. It aims to enhance the emergency care pathway for specialist patients by addressing their complex healthcare needs through a responsive approach, ultimately improving the overall patient experience.
As a senior pharmacist based in ED, you will also be expected to contribute to the quality improvement projects and basic service provision and research agenda working with staff across all relevant areas.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will play a key role in transforming care for sickle cell patients in the new Emergency Department Sickle Cell Ambulatory Care Unit, within the multidisciplinary team of the unit to provide compassionate and patient-centered care at the Royal London Hospital.
The postholder will optimise medicines management and improve care pathways to ensure these patients receive the best possible support tailored to their unique needs. To promote the responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing and management of medicines within the sickle cell ambulatory care unit and ED in order to optimise clinical outcomes, minimise adverse reactions and improve medicines safety.
The postholder will contribute to shaping the future of pharmacy services in emergency and community care, and making a real difference in the lives of patients and their families
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent.
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC.
- Postgraduate certificate in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent.
Desirable
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience in an acute hospital based clinical post.
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
- Experience of undertaking research, quality improvement or audit projects.
- To have been involved in bringing about change to a service/department
Desirable
- Experience delivering care in patients with sickle cell disease
- Experience delivering care in acute medicine and surgery specialties in a ward setting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates sound clinical knowledge
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Certificate level or equivalent.
- Understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk management.
- Awareness of current national standards, guidelines, and service delivery issues.
- Understanding of GPhC revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level.
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ED/SDEC level.
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice e.g., controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems.
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs.
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent.
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC.
- Postgraduate certificate in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent.
Desirable
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience in an acute hospital based clinical post.
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
- Experience of undertaking research, quality improvement or audit projects.
- To have been involved in bringing about change to a service/department
Desirable
- Experience delivering care in patients with sickle cell disease
- Experience delivering care in acute medicine and surgery specialties in a ward setting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates sound clinical knowledge
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Certificate level or equivalent.
- Understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk management.
- Awareness of current national standards, guidelines, and service delivery issues.
- Understanding of GPhC revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level.
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ED/SDEC level.
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice e.g., controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems.
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs.
- 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.
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).
