Job summary
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledge of the medicines optimisation agenda.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will primarily be based at Magnolia Unit providing clinical pharmacy services. The role also involves education & training and supporting other pharmacy colleagues.
The post holder is expected to contribute to the development of pharmaceutical services to the Trust and to promote the highest standards of professional practice, trust policies and procedures.
About us
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.
Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.
We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIVand Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- M Pharm or equivalent
Desirable
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to work methodically whilst under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues and patients
- Ability to deal sympathetically and courteously with patients and/or members of the general public
- Ability to work a part of a team or alone as required
- Ability to prioritise own work and manage the work with other junior staff
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in workplace
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Proven time management skills
- Ability to demonstrate CPD
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Relevant hospital pharmacy experience
- Experience in the training and development of junior staff
- Experience in use of own initiative including dealing with queries from department users
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians and other health service staff
- Recent clinical pharmacy/ward pharmacy experience
- Project management experience
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application
- Computer Literate
- To have a good working knowledge on health and safety issues at work
Desirable
- Experience in line managing a member of staff
- Supervisory experience
Personal qualities
Essential
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Able to do late duty, weekend duties and bank holidays rostered
- Able to participate in out of hours service
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiasm
- Awareness of Equal opportunities
Trust Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- M Pharm or equivalent
Desirable
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to work methodically whilst under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues and patients
- Ability to deal sympathetically and courteously with patients and/or members of the general public
- Ability to work a part of a team or alone as required
- Ability to prioritise own work and manage the work with other junior staff
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in workplace
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Proven time management skills
- Ability to demonstrate CPD
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Relevant hospital pharmacy experience
- Experience in the training and development of junior staff
- Experience in use of own initiative including dealing with queries from department users
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians and other health service staff
- Recent clinical pharmacy/ward pharmacy experience
- Project management experience
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application
- Computer Literate
- To have a good working knowledge on health and safety issues at work
Desirable
- Experience in line managing a member of staff
- Supervisory experience
Personal qualities
Essential
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Able to do late duty, weekend duties and bank holidays rostered
- Able to participate in out of hours service
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiasm
- Awareness of Equal opportunities
Trust Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
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).
