Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with excellent clinical and interpersonal skills to lead high-quality care to the Medicine and Emergency Services at University College London Hospital. Medicine and Emergency Services are delivered mainly by two Divisions including the Emergency Services Division with its Emergency Department, Acute Medicine and Ambulatory Care clinical areas, and the Medical Specialties Division which encompasses inpatients wards and several outpatients services such as dermatology, rheumatology, neurophysiology, care of the older person, respiratory medicine, clinical pharmacology, nephrology (with the Royal Free London), diabetes and endocrinology, and cardiology.
Interview date: Two weeks after closing date
Main duties of the job
Your duties will include co-ordinating and participating in the delivery of day-to-day pharmacy services to medical clinical areas, working closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), attending ward rounds, and other relevant governance and clinical meetings. There will be opportunities to develop and participate in services such as outpatients clinics for the management of long-term medical conditions.You will use your independent prescribing skills to optimise inpatient medication regimens and prepare handover plans for discharge. As an active member of the MDT you will contribute to service development and quality improvement projects within Medicine and Emergency Services. You will support the MDT, acting as a point of contact for staff and patients with medicines related queries during inpatient admissions, post-discharge, and occasionally in relation to other homecare arrangements. Through service evaluations and quality improvement projects, you will work to develop and enhance our existing systems and processes, particularly where safety, efficiency, and productivity can be improved through our Electronic Health Records System, Epic.You will support clinical pathways that cross care boundaries, including ensuring timely transfer discharge information using the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS), support admission avoidance or early discharge pathways such as Hospital at Home, Virtual Wards or Outpatients Parenteral Antibacterials Therapy (OPAT) services.
About us
Where applicable, you will participate in the delivery of cost saving schemes involving complex or high cost drugs, by liaising with UCLH commissioning pharmacists and colleagues across North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Board (ICB), and Integrated Care Systems (ICS). You will also support homecare services for Medical Specialties patients on specialist and/or high cost drugs, aiming to ensure that all patients are registered on Blueteq and that the data requirements of our commissioners are met.
Additional management and leadership responsibilities for the Emergency Services and Medical Specialties Divisions will include leading medicines related risk management and governance, medicines expenditure analysis and reporting, audits and service evaluations, multi-professional education and training, and other strategic projects as required. You will also represent the UCLH Pharmacy Department at Directorate and Divisional clinical governance meetings.You will work as part of our broader clinical pharmacy team and contribute to local and national initiatives to develop and enhance the pharmacy service. You will also contribute to the delivery of educational and developmental programmes, including the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
Person Specification
Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Essential
- Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
- Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Minimum of five years' experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
- Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable
- Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses
Management & leadership skills
Essential
- Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in co-ordinating the dayto-day practice activities of others
- Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activity
- Collates data regarding service provision
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
- Demonstrates initiative
- Ability to work autonomously
- The ability to identify and manage risks
Desirable
- Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in management of others
- Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Ability to utilise database or other software packages to support and enhance work activity
- Evaluates service provision
- Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
- Demonstrates innovation
- Delegates authority appropriately
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures
Clinical & interpersonal skills
Essential
- Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
- The ability to identify and prioritise own clinical workload
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
- Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
- Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
- Maintains standards of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
- Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi -disciplinary team
- Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within acute medicine, and respects confidentiality
Desirable
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in complex emergency and acute medical patients
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrable use of clinical audit and quality improvement to improve practice
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures
Education & training skills
Essential
- Previous experience of delivering educational material within pharmacy
- Identifies own training needs
Desirable
- Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
- Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
Research & development skills
Essential
- Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
- Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in neonatal care and women's health
- Maintains a portfolio of practice
Desirable
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Integrates research evidence into practice
Person Specification
Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Essential
- Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
- Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Minimum of five years' experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
- Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable
- Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses
Management & leadership skills
Essential
- Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in co-ordinating the dayto-day practice activities of others
- Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activity
- Collates data regarding service provision
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
- Demonstrates initiative
- Ability to work autonomously
- The ability to identify and manage risks
Desirable
- Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in management of others
- Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Ability to utilise database or other software packages to support and enhance work activity
- Evaluates service provision
- Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
- Demonstrates innovation
- Delegates authority appropriately
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures
Clinical & interpersonal skills
Essential
- Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
- The ability to identify and prioritise own clinical workload
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
- Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
- Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
- Maintains standards of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
- Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi -disciplinary team
- Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within acute medicine, and respects confidentiality
Desirable
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in complex emergency and acute medical patients
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrable use of clinical audit and quality improvement to improve practice
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures
Education & training skills
Essential
- Previous experience of delivering educational material within pharmacy
- Identifies own training needs
Desirable
- Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
- Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
Research & development skills
Essential
- Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
- Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in neonatal care and women's health
- Maintains a portfolio of practice
Desirable
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Integrates research evidence into practice
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).
Employer details
Employer name
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University College London Hospitals (various sites)
235 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BU
Employer's website
https://www.uclh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
