Band 6/7 Progressional Pharmacist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated and progressive pharmacy team at a leading NHS trust, where you will deliver world-class pharmaceutical care. This full-time role involves supporting clinical pharmacy services across various specialties, ensuring optimal drug therapy for patients. As a pharmacist, you will engage with multidisciplinary teams, participate in ward rounds, and contribute to service development initiatives. With a commitment to diversity and equality, this organization offers a dynamic work environment focused on improving patient care and outcomes. If you're passionate about making a difference in healthcare, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Required qualifications include MPharm and relevant pharmacy practice certifications.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy and clinical audit is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and support clinical pharmacy services across various specialties.
• Promote safe and effective use of drug therapy and participate in multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Time Management

Problem Solving

Pharmaceutical Knowledge

Education

MPharm or equivalent

Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent

Diploma in Pharmacy Practice

Job description

Our current vacancies

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Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1 in 6 weekend working and late duty/oncall commitments pro rata)
Job ref: 391-RFL-6859416

Employer: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Chase Farm/Barnet Hospital
Town: Barnet, London
Salary: £42,939 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59

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 larger 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.

Job overview

The post-holder will deliver, develop and support the clinical pharmacy services in a variety of different specialties within Barnet and Chase Farm pharmacy departments on a rotational basis. This in accordance with priorities agreed by the lead pharmacist for the specialist area and the clinical site lead pharmacist.

The post holder will successfully meet set competencies designed to develop the qualities, skills and knowledge expected to move to a Band 7. Length of competency training will be dependent on what qualification/ experience the staff member has achieved already but the following would be expected to be met within 12-24 months for newly qualified pharmacists:

1. Completion of Trust appraisal process as satisfactory
2. Completion/approaching completion of PGCert GPP or equivalent
3. Completion of portfolio review against the Foundation Pharmacist Framework
4. To deliver a presentation as part of the departmental teaching programme
5. To deliver a presentation as part of the Trainee Pharmacist teaching programme
6. Contribution to service development i.e. completion of either an audit, service evaluation, quality improvement project or development of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

This role is open to pharmacists that have nearly completed the PGCert (recruited as a B7), and also those that are yet to start or are progressing with this qualification (recruited as a B6).

Main duties of the job

The Pharmacy Department is a busy but friendly, progressive and expanding unit, which is dedicated to providing World Class standards of pharmaceutical care to all of our patients. Pharmacy Services incorporate the use of robotic automation and other cutting edge technologies. We practice near patient dispensing throughout the majority of the hospital and have transcribers, independent prescribers and accuracy checking technicians within our highly skilled clinical teams.

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking pharmacist to join our Clinical Pharmacy team. The post holder will be expected to promote the safe, cost effective and rational use of drug therapy to provide optimal pharmaceutical care to all of our patients, their families and carers. They will work with the multi-disciplinary team to support and improve patient flow by participation in multidisciplinary ward rounds, review of complex medication regimens, drug history taking, drug interaction monitoring, efficient drug supply and discharge planning.

They will also supply regular and detailed information and assistance to the Division in relation to clinical and financial aspects of drug prescribing and use.

Specialist rotations include Critical Care, Paediatrics, and Acute Admissions, Care of the Elderly, General Medicine, Surgery, Patient, Cardiology, Respiratory and Clinical Services.

This is a full time post, with evening, weekend, Bank Holiday and on-call duties pro rata.

Working for our organisation

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. With many specialities including cardiovascular, cancer, transplantation, infectious disease, haemophilia and scleroderma which are underpinned by a strong research agenda, the Royal Free is renowned for providing excellent patient care.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for all.

The Pharmacy department of the Royal Free London NHS Trust is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this large, internationally renowned teaching hospital. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do. We have over 300 staff working across the 3 sites in all areas of pharmacy. Pharmacy staff work across areas such as dispensary, stores, wards, outpatient clinics, satellite pharmacies, technical services, clinical trials, medicines advice service and QC.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrate ability to meet Trust Values

Education

• MPharm or equivalent
• Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Diploma in Pharmacy practice

Experience

• Demonstrable experience working in hospital pharmacy
• Broad based clinical experience
• Evidence of clinical audit / practice research
• Experience of training
• Experience of managing others

Skill and Aptitudes

• Demonstrates general clinical knowledge and skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Effective pharmaceutical skills
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Ability to communicate with patients and staff of all levels
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving
• 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 plan, prioritise and organise self, others and workload
• Ability to work accurately under pressure
• Understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance
• Understanding of NHS national and local priorities
• Previous experience of delivering training to junior colleagues
• Identifies own training needs and maintains a portfolio of practice
• Implements findings of pharmacy practice research

Personal Qualities

• Enthusiastic, well motivated, hardworking
• Reliable to work weekends, bank holidays, late nights and on-call
• Reliable with good attendance record

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Please note:

• Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
• Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Daud Abdulla
Job title: Clinical Lead Pharmacist- Barnet Hospital
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 02082164411

Or Rachna Bhatt, Clinical Lead Pharmacist - Barnet Hospital
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Please note that jobs marked as 'Restricted' and/or 'open to internal applicants only' apply to both Royal Free London and North Middlesex staff who are currently employed by either organisation. Applicants from these trusts will be treated as internal candidates for these roles. This is to support the ongoing work that is required to plan for the proposed integration of our two organisations.