Lead Pharmacist – Parenteral Nutrition and Surgery

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned healthcare provider in Greater London seeks a Lead Pharmacist for Parenteral Nutrition and Surgery. This role involves supporting a patient-focused pharmacy service, supervising staff, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have a Master's in Pharmacy, extensive hospital pharmacy experience, and strong clinical knowledge. Benefits include career development opportunities and a supportive work environment, with flexible working options. A commitment to improving working lives is essential.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working options

Wellbeing benefits

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Comprehensive post registration training in hospital pharmacy.
• Experience in adult surgical pharmacy.
• Ability to communicate highly complex information.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a patient-focused pharmacy service for parenteral nutrition.
• Manage nutritional needs and liaise with the multidisciplinary team.
• Facilitate safe and effective use of parenteral nutrition.

Skills

Communication Skills

Clinical Knowledge

Clinical Reasoning

Leadership

Education

Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent

Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Diploma in Pharmacy Practice

Independent prescriber

Job description

Lead Pharmacist – Parenteral Nutrition and Surgery

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary nutrition team. The post-holder will have experience of working surgery and it is useful to have some experience of gastroenterology and critical care as allied specialties though this is not essential.

You will:

• Be involved in the day to day screening and clinical monitoring of patients on parenteral nutrition (PN) and attend multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Be required to keep up to date on nutrition, join specialist interest groups such as UKCPA and BAPEN.
• Have a keen interest and experience in adult Surgery. Your role will involve supervising, training and mentoring junior pharmacy staff.
• Work with the Nutrition Steering group and multidisciplinary team to review and rationalise the choice of PN, develop and maintain relevant procedures, guidelines and electronic prescribing affecting Nutrition and Surgery.
• Provide medicines expenditure surveillance in parenteral nutrition and wider use of medicines across Surgery.
• Provide specialist pharmacist support in surgical areas trust-wide.

You will be mainly based on the Charing Cross hospital site clinically, as well as cross site to undertake Surgery Pharmacy team-based activities including attendance at meetings, nutrition MDT meetings/ward rounds, pharmacy directorate level and educational activities as per service requirements.

Main duties of the job

• To support the Pharmacy Department and Trust in leading, managing and developing a high-quality patient focused pharmacy service to those patients requiring parenteral nutrition (PN). This role is for adult patients, the majority of whom will be within the surgical and intensive care directorates, however some patients will sit in other divisions/directorates.
• To order (PN) following clinical review of nutritional needs, undertaking necessary monitoring, liaise with the multidisciplinary team on the nutritional management of patients and manage the operational ordering of PN.
• Be a proactive member of the nutrition team undertaking in multidisciplinary nutrition meetings and supporting the evidence based clinical use of parenteral nutrition.
• To facilitate the clinical and cost-effective use of parenteral nutrition ensuring that pharmaceutical service use and provision is safe and effective.
• To provide clinical pharmacy services, department and ward based, in line with Trust procedures and national legislation.
• To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services in patients receiving parenteral nutrition and supportive nutritional care.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Experience

• Comprehensive post registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy including parenteral nutrition.
• Solid ground in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines' information, aseptic services, ward services and dispensing).
• Previous experience in delivering training and education.
• Experience in managing others.
• Significant level of hospital-based experience in adult surgical pharmacy

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Ability to communicate highly complex information.
• Demonstrated expert clinical knowledge and skills in the relevant specialist area.
• Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems in the relevant specialist area.
• Demonstrate the ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities in the relevant specialist area.

Education / Qualifications

• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma in Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent/ working towards)
• Independent prescriber (or be willing to undertake as part of professional development).
• Appropriate nutrition related courses and or qualifications

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.