Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Paediatrics, Maternity and Patient Services

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated hospital pharmacist to join their innovative pharmacy team. This role focuses on leading clinical pharmacy services for paediatrics and maternity, ensuring high-quality drug use and effective risk management. The successful candidate will collaborate with a dynamic multidisciplinary team, enhancing patient care through expert pharmaceutical support. With a commitment to staff development and training, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking organization dedicated to excellence in clinical service.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Professional development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with clinical and managerial skills.
• Knowledge of medicines optimisation agenda and pharmacy services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evaluate pharmacy dispensary services for the Trust.
• Provide expert clinical pharmacy input in paediatrics and maternity.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy skills

Managerial skills

Medicines optimisation knowledge

Leadership skills

Education

Pharmacy degree

Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy

Tools

Pharmacy management systems

Clinical governance frameworks

Job description

A Vacancy at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.

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.

The post holder will provide, at highly specialist level, clinical pharmacy services to paediatrics and maternity and will be responsible for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, clinical governance and adherence to trust policies and guidelines concerning medicines use. The post holder will have designated areas of responsibility, which will vary from time to time according to the needs of the service and projects that require to be delivered including:

1. To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate pharmacy dispensary services provision to the Trust.
2. To provide professional leadership to the dispensary-based pharmacists.
3. It is expected that the management of dispensary services will account for around 20-30% of the post holder’s time including daily presence in the dispensary.
4. It is expected that the post holder’s contribution to the service will result in an improvement of dispensary KPIs.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

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.

Lead the pharmacy services to paediatrics and maternity.

Lead the dispensary pharmacy services.

Provide a high level of expert clinical pharmacy input as part of the multidisciplinary team within paediatric and obstetric medicine to improve and enhance the quality of patient care. To provide pharmaceutical support and advice to paediatric and maternity inpatients and outpatients.

To act as the line manager for the paediatric and maternity specialist clinical pharmacists and the chief technician, dispensary.

To co-ordinate and deliver on clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines management and use within the area of paediatric and maternity medicine.

Manage and develop staff assigned to dispensary and monitor their performance using Trust policies and procedures and local guidelines for performance reviews and that staff motivation and direction are given through appraisal, general communication and specific feedback. To undertake performance review for all staff managed by this post and report to the Chief Pharmacist.

This advert closes on Thursday 12 Dec 2024.