Band 8a Senior Pharmacist -Virtual ward

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

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Senior Pharmacist for their Virtual Ward service, focusing on delivering clinical pharmacy care to patients receiving treatment at home. The ideal candidate will possess considerable hospital pharmacy experience and a strong background in service development. This position supports flexible working and offers generous benefits. Salary ranges from £61,631 to £68,623 per annum.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in hospital pharmacy.
• Proven experience as a clinical pharmacist.
• Experience managing workloads and leading service developments.
• Experience contributing to policy and service development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evaluate pharmacy services for the virtual ward.
• Collaborate with senior staff to support service development.
• Participate in clinical audits and guidelines development.
• Support training of the pharmacy team.

Skills

Expert clinical knowledge

Written and verbal communication skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Negotiation skills

Teaching and training skills

Education

GPhC registration

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Registered prescriber

Advanced qualification in specialist area

Tools

Electronic prescribing system

Job description

The Virtual ward service is an initiative which provides our patients with timely and appropriate support to be able to safely receive treatment at home and supports early discharges and admission avoidance for patients who do not need to be in hospital.

The Senior Pharmacist- Virtual ward pharmacist will be working with the multidisciplinary team to provide a high-quality pharmacy service to the virtual ward patients.

The post holder will be involved in the developing the service by reviewing, developing and implementing policies and procedures as well as providing relevant training to pharmacy and non-pharmacy staf

Main duties of the job

Duties include:

• To lead, develop, deliver and evaluate clinical pharmacy services for the virtual ward at RFLCollaborating with other senior staff to support service development
• Represent the Trust at NCL level for Virtual ward services
• Participating in medicine related clinical audits, research and development and development of trust-wide guidelines
• Supporting training of the pharmacy team.

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

Job 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

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

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 in delivering education and training.
• Experience as a clinical pharmacy tutor
• Experience of clinical risk and clinical governance

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 situations
• 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

Personal Qualities & attributes

• Enthusiastic/positive attitude, self motivated and, hardworking
• Reliable to work weekends, bank holidays and late duty shifts.
• Identifies own training needs actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice.
• 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.

£61,631 to £68,623 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS ( pro rata )