Highly Specialist Cardiac Pharmacist

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in Greater London is seeking a Highly Specialist Cardiac Pharmacist to enhance patient care through effective medicines optimisation in primary care. The successful candidate will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and ensure high standards in cardiovascular services. This full-time role offers professional development opportunities and is essential for delivering quality healthcare to patients in North-East London. We welcome applicants who support our commitment to inclusivity.

Qualifications

• Significant post registration hospital and or primary care experience in cardiovascular medicine.
• Ability to undertake quality improvement and reflective practice.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate with senior medical staff.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the cardiovascular prevention primary care pharmacy team.
• Communicate effectively with patients to optimise pharmaceutical management.
• Support service development while maintaining high standards.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

IT literate; able to use Microsoft Office

Excellent verbal and written communication

Ability to work autonomously

Education

MPharm or equivalent

Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC

Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification

MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Tools

GP clinical systems such as EMIS

SystemOne

Vision

Job description

Highly Specialist Cardiac Pharmacist (Supporting Primary Care)

(37.5 hours a week including back-up on call and weekend commitments

Do you want to join an award-winning department that puts clinical pharmacy professionals at the forefront of medicines optimisation and patient care?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join the cardiac team at Barts Heart Centre within Barts Health NHS Trust.

The post holder will work alongside the cardiovascular prevention primary care pharmacy team and deliver quality care to patients through efficient medicines optimisation. The post provides several opportunities for professional and personal development, contributing to quality improvement projects and supporting the delivery of world‑class and innovative cardiovascular services

Main duties of the job

There is a need for close coordination with the cardiovascular prevention primary care pharmacy team and wider primary care MDT such as general practitioners, pharmacy professionals, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy, etc to plan workload and priorities. This involves optimising cardiovascular medicine, for long term conditions related to cardiac disease across primary care services within North‑East London (NEL) and beyond.

The post holder will work with primary care teams to continually develop the service, while maintaining high standards and achieving best practice to meet the needs of patients and the Trust.

The post holder communicates effectively with patients to help optimise their pharmaceutical management and through liaising with other health care professionals to design, implement plans to optimise health outcomes.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world‑class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high‑performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm‑free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant post registration hospital and or primary care experience in cardiovascular medicine
• Experience working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team to provide patient care
• Ability to undertake and facilitate quality improvement, reflective practice, teaching and CPD
• Experience of providing hospital‑based clinical service within cardiac services
• Operational management experience in a complex environment
• Experience of managing staff
• Experience of using GP clinical systems such as EMIS, SystemOne and Vision

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
• Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
• IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
• Ability to work autonomously and supporting junior members to deliver service provision.
• Experience in local implementation of national standards and guidelines
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
• Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training

Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of drugs and therapeutics in cardiology at Diploma level or equivalent
• Thorough understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk management
• Knowledge and awareness of current national standards including recent cardiovascular aspects of NHS long term plan.
• Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
• Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
• Knowledge of the law and relevant guidance relating to medicines, pharmacy, rationing decisions in the NHS
• Knowledge of the medication issues at the interface of primary and secondary care.
• Awareness of national datasets such as CVDPREVENT

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum postgraduate diploma level)
• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.

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.