Lead Pharmacist, Clinical Services

Job summary

This important role will lead the clinical services agenda within the Pharmacy department at LNWUH. The postholder will directly deputise for the Principal Pharmacist, Clinical Services whilst actively promoting the pharmacy clinical services across the three sites at the Trust to promote patient safety, education and training of our staff and drive service improvements. The postholder will be required to work closely and collaboratively with the other Lead Pharmacists at the Trust to support medicines optimisation strategy and promote an effective service. The individual will also be responsible for managing the cross site senior rotational pharmacist programme including rotation allocations and staffing gaps. The postholder will need to have proven extensive experience secondary care pharmacy services and managing a team of staff.

The role requires someone who is comfortable working in different settings across the Trust and region, and engaging with a variety of different stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

Leads on the development, monitoring and review of key performance indicators to describe the clinical pharmacy service provided by clinical pharmacists within the Trust. To work with the Principal Pharmacist, Clinical Services to develop the clinical pharmacy service in line with the needs of the Trust and to meet the Pharmacy vision.

Ensures the provision of a high quality, safe and cost-effective clinical pharmacy service which integrates with partner organisations across North West London.

The role will work closely with Pharmacy leads for Education and Training, Medication Safety and Operations at all hospital sites.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.