Lead Pharmacist for Emergency and Integrated Medicine

Whittington Health NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London is seeking a strategic leader for their pharmacy department to drive clinical excellence and collaboration in Emergency and Integrated Medicine. The successful candidate will have opportunities for personal development while ensuring high-quality, effective pharmacy services across diverse specialties. This is a permanent role with a focus on innovation and quality improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in providing strategic leadership in a pharmacy setting.
• Strong collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in developing and implementing clinical services.

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality clinical pharmacy services for the EIM Integrated Clinical Service Unit.
• Create a strategic vision and roadmap for pharmacy services.
• Collaborate with diverse specialties in Acute and Emergency Medicine.
• Support audit and research efforts within the team.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Strategic vision development

Team collaboration

Quality Improvement methodology

Job description

We are excited to offer a permanent role at Whittington Health, to provide clinical and strategic leadership to our Emergency and Integrated Medicine (EIM) directorate. This is an exceptional role full of opportunities for personal and professional development. Due to the hard work of the current post holder, the EIM pharmacy team is expanding and now is an exciting time to join us and support the on going developments both within the department and at Trust level. This role is full of opportunities to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership at Trust level and within North Central London. As a member of the Senior Pharmacy Team, you will work collaboratively with the Deputy Chief Pharmacist in ensuring clinical pharmacy services are delivered in a safe and effective manner and will provide wider leadership to the entire pharmacy department.

• To develop a consistently high quality clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency and Integrated Medicine (EIM) Integrated Clinical Service Unit (ICSU).
• To developing the strategic vision and roadmap for pharmacy services within this IPCS, taking into account the diverse skills of the wider pharmacy team.
• To work closely with the multidisciplinary team, to develop pharmacy within the various specialities within the EIM ICSU. These will include Acute and Emergency Medicine, Gastroenterology, Respiratory and Cardiology.
• To support audit and research within the teams and promote the use of Quality Improvement (QI) methodology at all opportunities.
• The post holder will support the development of emerging clinical pathways that will exist within EIM and identify opportunities to promote integrated working with Community Servicesand Primary Care.
• To act as a member of the senior pharmacy team and provide strategic leadership both within the pharmacy department and to the wider Trust.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.