Highly Specialist Pharmacist - HIV, Sexual and Gender Health

Job responsibilities

1. Leadership

To support the Lead Directorate Pharmacist HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology in the development and delivery of pharmaceutical services to the HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology directorate:

Identify and promote best practice

Motivate and inspire others (both within pharmacy and the directorate) in order to create and maintain a good working environment and facilitate staff retention

Demonstrate innovation within the specialty

Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented within the HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology directorate

Work collaboratively with senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team, management and participate in the natural agenda for pharmacy services in accordance with the agreed objectives e.g. by being a member of the Directorate Drugs or Clinical Governance Subcommittees

Proactively develop the HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology pharmacy service in response to the needs of the Directorate, in line with local and national objectives

Reconcile national priorities with local realities in terms of delivery of local services and within the constraints of the commissioned service

Deputise for the Lead Directorate Pharmacist HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology at relevant external meetings in order to network and share knowledge with other HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology specialists at a regional and national level

Ensure that prescribing issues in HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology are managed within the development of Electronic Patient Records

Management of service

To provide clinical pharmacy services for people attending the HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology directorate services in accordance with the priorities set by the post holder and Lead Directorate Pharmacist HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology

Support the Lead Pharmacist HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology in prioritising clinical pharmacy services to the directorate

To be responsible for leading the pharmacy service to the allocated clinical areas

When acting as the lead for inpatient services within the team, to review all resident pharmacist handover e-mails and deal with all issues relevant to the directorate, providing feedback and training where necessary

When acting as the lead for inpatient services within the team, to implement and develop the self-medication scheme for HIV in-patients in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) on the HIV inpatient ward

When acting as the overarching lead for education and training within the team, to supervise and oversee the training of the trainee and resident pharmacists when they rotate through the specialty. Evaluate their performance against objectives using Trust performance and development reviews and personal development plans

When acting as the overarching lead for HIV services within the team, to support the Lead Pharmacist in the management of the HIV outpatient pharmacy service across all HIV outpatient clinics

To be responsible for producing monthly and quarterly reports on controlled drugs and medication incidents within the directorate as required

To be responsible for leading the pharmacy service for the allocated outpatient clinic(s)

Line-manage the assigned specialist pharmacists within the specialty as directed. This includes appraisal, performance review and dealing with any disciplinary and performance matters as necessary

Assist in the investigation of errors and complaints involving the pharmaceutical services delivered to the directorate, liaising with the Lead Directorate Pharmacist for the specialty and other relevant managers to ensure a satisfactory outcome

Review drug related incidents that occur within the directorate and implement actions to reduce re-occurrence.

Deputise for the Lead Pharmacist HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology on Trust committees or groups where appropriate

Work across traditional boundaries e.g. independent prescribing role/advanced practitioner role

Delegate authority appropriately to junior pharmacy staff, e.g. clinics and wards within the specialty, which are appropriate for their level of experience

Support the Lead Pharmacist HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology in the recruitment and retention of staff for the team

Assist Medicines Information with responses to queries generated relating to the HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology specialties

Provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information for the HIV, Sexual and Gender Health and Dermatology Directorate in accordance with the needs of the directorate

Support the Lead Directorate Pharmacist to effectively monitor and report on the directorate's drug expenditure and provide feedback to service managers, clinicians and finance colleagues at both a directorate and Trust level

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Vocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy (+ completion of pre-registration training).
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
• Registered as a practicing pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• MSc. in Clinical Pharmacy
• Advanced Level Practice Credentialling
• Registered independent prescriber
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)membership
• HIV Pharmacy Association (HIVPA) membership
• British HIV Association (BHIVA) membership

Experience

Essential

• Significant specialist experience in HIV, Sexual and Gender Health, delivering services at an advanced level of practice
• Variety of clinical practice to include medicine, surgical and medicines information rotations
• Experience of delivering training and education at post graduate level
• Dispensing and monitoring of clinical trials Supervision of others
• Clinical audit to improve practice

Desirable

• Education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
• Staff Management e.g. recruitment/ appraisal / training / leadership / motivation / sickness absence / performance monitoring
• Screening clinical trial protocols

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Identifies and implements best practice
• Meets sets targets
• Can demonstrate innovation
• Influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
• Advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and manages difficult and ambiguous problems
• Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
• Word processing, email, accurate data entry skills
• Understanding and implementation of Trust and national priorities
• Identify and manage risks
• Can delegate authority appropriately
• Evaluate quality of own work and service quality
• Expert clinical reasoning
• Advanced level of clinical knowledge and skills assessed through advanced level framework
• Enhances the quality of patient care
• Awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
• Integrates research evidence into practice
• Ensures junior pharmacists training needs are identified and met
• Good oral and written communication and presentation skills to convey highly complex and potentially highly sensitive information to patients and other practitioners
• Service evaluation and audit
• Identifies own training needs
• Actively seeks novel opportunities to meet training needs
• Accuracy of screening, dispensing and transcription
• Maintains a broad level of pharmacy practice

Desirable

• Identifies appropriate measures of service
• Spreadsheets and databases
• Evaluate team's work
• Tolerates uncertainty
• Applies a whole-system, patient-focussed approach
• Undertakes own research and publishes it
• Evaluates the training provided
• Ensures others training needs are identified and met

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Enthusiasm for the position
• Lead by example
• Self-starter Methodical with attention to detail
• Friendly, empathetic and reliable team worker able to relate to all grades of staff
• Ability to cope well within a busy 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).