Job summary
Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Specialist Medicine - LGH Site Lead
Are you looking for a new challenge that will develop your leadership and management skills while providing clinical expertise across a range of areas ?
We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our Emergency and Specialist Medicine (ESM) Pharmacy team. As one of our Advanced Specialist Pharmacists you will work provide input and leadership to our clinical areas at the Leicester General Hospital (LGH) site, with a particular focus on the Medical Day Case Unit (MDCU) process redesign and quality improvement.
As the site lead for the LGH Pharmacy team, you will be a key memebr of the wider Pharmacy team and will co-ordinate the pharmacy team at LGH across specialities. You will need to be well-organised, pro-active, highly-motived and adaptable.
Working closely with CMG Lead Pharmacists across multiple services you will provide leadership, training and development of pharmacy staff across ESM and at the LGH.
ESM Wards at the LGH currently include general and geriatric medicine, Brain Injuries Unit and Rehab. Our MDCU provides services to neurology, gastroenterology, rheumatology and immunology amongst others.
We have an ever growing number of Independent Prescribers and there is a strong desire to increase these numbers further so that responsibility for prescribing becomes further integral to our pharmacist's roles.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated and forward thinking person for this varied role. You role will involve:
- Acting as the Site Lead Pharmacist for LGH
- Providing specialist pharmacy and medicines optimisation to ESM wards, particularly at LGH site.
- Lead on ensuring patients receive the most appropriate and cost-effective treatments at our Medical Day Case Unit.
- Developing, implementing and monitoring guidelines and polices relevant to the service
- Mentoring and managing Pharmacy staff
- Teaching and training within the Department
- Identifying and promoting best practice
- Providing support, management and development to other team members
The post is focused on ESM services at the LGH, but cross site working across the 3 sites of UHL will be required.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to departmental evening, out of hours and weekend duties as per current rotas.
About us
We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children's Hospital and run one of the country's leading heart centres.
Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.
Our purpose is to provide 'Caring at its best' and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we're here to do. They are:
- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together
Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that 'Caring at its best' is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)
The detailed job description and main responsibilities are included as an attachment to this advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintain and develop an expert clinical practice in area of Specialty.
- To lead and develop the specialist clinical pharmacy service to the specialist area in line with local and national standards and policies, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines within UHL and the wider Health Community.
- To deliver highly specialised pharmaceutical care to patients and to support other healthcare staff in meeting risk management, financial management and clinical governance responsibilities around the use of medicines.
- To evaluate errors made with high risk medicines used by Specialty, to communicate these errors with relevant teams and to help reduce future occurrence of such errors throughout the Trust and wider Healthcare Community.
- To undertake clinical supervision and mentoring of junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians and trainee pharmacists.
- To be a source of expert specialist advice for other pharmacists, patients and all other healthcare professionals within the speciality, including participation in multidisciplinary and governance meetings.
- To lead and develop clinical pharmacy audit and practice research within the specialist area, to act as a role model and national pharmacist expert in the Specialty area, networking with peers in other organisation.
See attached Job Description for more detail.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to departmental evening, out of hours and weekend duties as per current rotas.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintain and develop an expert clinical practice in area of Specialty.
- To lead and develop the specialist clinical pharmacy service to the specialist area in line with local and national standards and policies, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines within UHL and the wider Health Community.
- To deliver highly specialised pharmaceutical care to patients and to support other healthcare staff in meeting risk management, financial management and clinical governance responsibilities around the use of medicines.
- To evaluate errors made with high risk medicines used by Specialty, to communicate these errors with relevant teams and to help reduce future occurrence of such errors throughout the Trust and wider Healthcare Community.
- To undertake clinical supervision and mentoring of junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians and trainee pharmacists.
- To be a source of expert specialist advice for other pharmacists, patients and all other healthcare professionals within the speciality, including participation in multidisciplinary and governance meetings.
- To lead and develop clinical pharmacy audit and practice research within the specialist area, to act as a role model and national pharmacist expert in the Specialty area, networking with peers in other organisation.
See attached Job Description for more detail.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to departmental evening, out of hours and weekend duties as per current rotas.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GPhC register pharmacist with relevant experience as per JD
- Diploma or equivalent
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written / oral communication skills
- Ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians and managers
- Ability to demonstrate achievement of set goals
Experience
Essential
- Significant recent post-registration experience in hospital pharmacy
- Medical / nursing / pharmacy staff teaching or training
- Experience of leading and working in multidisciplinary teams at a senior level
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GPhC register pharmacist with relevant experience as per JD
- Diploma or equivalent
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written / oral communication skills
- Ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians and managers
- Ability to demonstrate achievement of set goals
Experience
Essential
- Significant recent post-registration experience in hospital pharmacy
- Medical / nursing / pharmacy staff teaching or training
- Experience of leading and working in multidisciplinary teams at a senior level
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).
