Band 8a Lead Pharmacist- Patient Services

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Lead Pharmacist to oversee patient services, ensuring high-quality clinical care. The successful candidate will promote governance and compliance while leading operational and strategic initiatives within the pharmacy department. This role requires extensive experience in hospital pharmacy and expert clinical knowledge, alongside a GPhC registration. The Trust offers a supportive environment for professional development and a competitive salary range of £61,631 to £68,623 per year.

Benefits

Generous benefits

Flexible hours

Next level training

Qualifications

• GPhC registration is essential to practice as a pharmacist.
• Possession of a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or an equivalent qualification.
• Registered as a supplementary or independent prescriber adds to eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead the provision of clinical pharmacy service for patients.
• Oversee the operational components and ensure compliance with standards.
• Promote governance and quality improvement within patient services.

Skills

Expert clinical knowledge

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Problem-solving initiative

Education

GPhC registration

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Registered supplementary or independent prescriber

Advanced qualification in specialist area

Tools

Electronic prescribing system

Job description

Band 8a Lead Pharmacist- Patient Services

The Senior Pharmacist for patient services will assist in leading, delivering, developing and evaluating a high quality clinical and pharmaceutical service to inpatients and outpatient services.This includes the responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day service provision, including allocation of staff and provision of cover in the event of sickness.

The Trust takes pride as one of the major specialist centres for infectious diseases, liver and renal transplants, breast and plastic surgery, myeloma, and neuroendocrine tumours. Working in one of the main speciality centres brings exciting opportunities to see a range of patients at different levels of complexities. 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 to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this internationally renowned teaching hospital. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do.

Main duties of the job

This post holder will be responsible for promoting governance and the safe use of medicines across the Trust alongside providing a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within a defined clinical specialty.To work closely with the multidisciplinary teams, clinical leads, and divisional managers for inpatient MDTU and outpatient services. To oversee the operational, clinical and strategic components including being responsible for optimising digital pathways related to Patient Services. To have overall responsibility for Patient Services, including ensuring compliance with relevant local, Trust, professional, ethical and regulatory standards.To assure compliance of Patient Services with relevant Key Performance Indicators.Be involved in quality improvement projects which aim to improve performance within patient servicesTo support with education and training activities of all pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals in the context of patient service activitiesTo support with compliance with external governance requirements relating to patient servicesDevelop tools to capture and analyse performance and report this month. Leading on the training and induction of pharmacy staff, ensuring they are adequately trained and supported to carry out their duties.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for a detailed job description and responsibilities for this role

Person Specification

Education & professional Qualifications

• GPhC registration
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered supplementary or independent prescriber
• Advanced qualification in specialist area

Experience

• Considerable experience working in hospital pharmacy and proven experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist
• Experience of contributing to policy, planning and service development
• Experience of managing own workload
• Experience of managing change and leading service developments
• Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure and high cost drugs
• 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 as a clinical pharmacy tutor
• Experience of clinical risk and clinical governance
• Experience of on call commitments

Personal Qualities & attributes

• Identifies own training needs actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice
• Demonstrate team work

Skills and aptitudes

• Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and pharmaceutical care skills in the specialist areas
• Demonstrates written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates good negotiation skills and the ability to influence medical, pharmacy and management staff
• Ability to communicate with patients and staff of all levels
• Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous situation
• Demonstrates good teaching and training skills
• 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 accurately under pressure
• Ability to integrate in a multidisciplinary forum
• Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving
• Ability to identify and implement best practice using critical appraisal skills
• Ability to identify and manage risk and understands clinical risk and clinical governance
• Ability to contribute to business plans, policies and clinical protocols
• Understanding of NHS national and local priorities
• Understanding of processes and commissioning of medicines and services
• Undertakes own research
• Previous experience of electronic prescribing system

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.

£61,631 to £68,623 a yearPer annum inclusive of HCAS