Job summary
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join the pharmacy team at Barnet Hospital. You will be leading, delivering and developing a high-quality pharmacy service to North London Hospice, in close partnership and support from the Royal Free hospital pharmacy team. This will require you to work closely with the multidisciplinary palliative care team.
The principal role of this post holder is to lead on the management and provision of a comprehensive, high quality pharmacy service to patients requiring palliative care at the North London Hospice, and to patients receiving treatment at the Royal Free London.
Main duties of the job
The principal role of this post holder is to lead on the management and provision of a comprehensive, high quality pharmacy service to patients requiring palliative care at the North London Hospice, and to patients receiving treatment at the Royal Free London. The post holder will lead on the provision of education to healthcare professionals in all pharmaceutical aspects of palliative care services.
The post holder will be responsible for leading on the development of policies, guidelines, audits, research and promoting cost effective use of drugs. Working with senior clinicians and managers, the post holder will help to manage the hospice budget, ensuring the cost-effective use of medicines through new drug evaluations, financial reporting, and adherence to protocols and policies.
The post holder will identify areas where improvements in both the quality and cost effectiveness of pharmaceutical care and prescribing may be encouraged.
To work with all senior staff in specialist palliative care to review and develop policies
and procedures to ensure the safe and effective handling of medication at the hospice.
About us
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This large scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients. Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
The Pharmacy department Barnet Hospital is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent
Desirable
- Advanced qualification in specialist area
- Registered supplementary or independent prescriber
- RPS Faculty membership
- Management/Leadership training course
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience working in hospital pharmacy and proven experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist with experience working with gastroenterology patients
- Experience of managing change and leading service developments
- Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure.
- Experience of writing / implementing clinical guidelines and government directives
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Evidence of clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence based practice.
- Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
- Experience in delivering education and training.
- Comprehensive band 6/7 rotation
Desirable
- Coordinating and delivering education and training at post graduate level
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence medical, pharmacy and management staff
- Good presentation skills
- Good teaching and training skills
- Good management skills
- Ability to carry out day to day responsibilities and deal effectively with unpredictable/acute demands
- Ability to justify and reason any advice given should this be challenged.
- Ability to communicate with patients/carers and staff of all levels.
- Ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver timely outcomes
- Ability to work alone and a part of a team
- Ability to work accurately under pressure
- Ability to integrate in a multidisciplinary forum
- Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous situations
- Ability to motivate and act as a role model
- Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving.
- Ability to identify and implement best practice
- Ability to identify and manage risk
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and pharmaceutical care skills in the field of Gastroenterology
- Critical appraisal skills
- Higher level of clinical reasoning and judgment
- Ability to take full responsibility for and be accountable for own actions
- Ability to contribute to business plans, policies and clinical protocols
- Understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance
- Understanding of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to patients in Gastroenterology
- Understanding of NHS national and local priorities
- Computer literate (including word processing, email & use of internet) Preferably knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages)
Desirable
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential
- Enthusiastic, well-motivated, hardworking
- Identifies own training needs actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice.
- Flexibility to work weekends, bank holidays, late nights and on call
- Reliable with good attendance record
Person Specification
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent
Desirable
- Advanced qualification in specialist area
- Registered supplementary or independent prescriber
- RPS Faculty membership
- Management/Leadership training course
Experience
Essential
- Considerable experience working in hospital pharmacy and proven experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist with experience working with gastroenterology patients
- Experience of managing change and leading service developments
- Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure.
- Experience of writing / implementing clinical guidelines and government directives
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Evidence of clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence based practice.
- Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
- Experience in delivering education and training.
- Comprehensive band 6/7 rotation
Desirable
- Coordinating and delivering education and training at post graduate level
Skills and aptitudes
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence medical, pharmacy and management staff
- Good presentation skills
- Good teaching and training skills
- Good management skills
- Ability to carry out day to day responsibilities and deal effectively with unpredictable/acute demands
- Ability to justify and reason any advice given should this be challenged.
- Ability to communicate with patients/carers and staff of all levels.
- Ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver timely outcomes
- Ability to work alone and a part of a team
- Ability to work accurately under pressure
- Ability to integrate in a multidisciplinary forum
- Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous situations
- Ability to motivate and act as a role model
- Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving.
- Ability to identify and implement best practice
- Ability to identify and manage risk
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and pharmaceutical care skills in the field of Gastroenterology
- Critical appraisal skills
- Higher level of clinical reasoning and judgment
- Ability to take full responsibility for and be accountable for own actions
- Ability to contribute to business plans, policies and clinical protocols
- Understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance
- Understanding of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to patients in Gastroenterology
- Understanding of NHS national and local priorities
- Computer literate (including word processing, email & use of internet) Preferably knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages)
Desirable
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential
- Enthusiastic, well-motivated, hardworking
- Identifies own training needs actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice.
- Flexibility to work weekends, bank holidays, late nights and on call
- Reliable with good attendance record
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).
