Lead Pharmacist Virtual ward and community wards

Transformationunitgm; London; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a Lead Pharmacist for a fixed-term role at Band 8a. This position entails managing pharmacy services across virtual and community wards, utilizing strong clinical skills and leadership capabilities. Ideal candidates will hold an MPharm degree and possess extensive hospital experience.

Qualifications

• Significant experience post-registration in a hospital based clinical post.
• Completion of relevant clinical pharmacy qualifications.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service.
• Provide patient-facing clinical pharmacy services.
• Conduct medicines-related training for healthcare professionals.

Skills

Effective organisation

Communication skills

Clinical knowledge

Supervision

Education

MPharm or equivalent

Registration with GPhC

Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Independent prescribing qualification

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 12 months (including weekends, late duties, on-call, bank holidays) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends, late duties, on-call, bank holidays) Job ref 391-NMUH-7122587

Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Middlesex University Hospital Town London Salary £59,490 - £66,239 per annum inclusive of HCAS Outer London Salary period Yearly Closing 27/06/2025 23:59

Lead Pharmacist Virtual ward and community wards

Band 8a

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

This post is 50/50 split between virtual ward and community wards

In this role you will:

• Lead, manage and develop clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to virtual and community wards
• Provide regular, direct, patient facing clinical pharmacy services within virtual wards and other clinical areas
• Provide medicines related training to healthcare professionals
• Participate and contribute to the relevant governance, quality and safety meetings, and help deliver the medicines safety agenda within virtual /community wards and pharmacy services
• Liaise with primary care to ensure seamless transfer of care for patients

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Independent prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
• Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or working to or equivalent

Skills and abilities

• Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
• Ability to work unsupervised and alone
• Ability to work under pressure
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
• Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy may be contentious or complex
• Ability to innovate and implement change
• Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
• Ability to work with other colleagues as part of a team
• Ability to resolve conflict
• Ability to show Initiative
• Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively

Experience

• Significant experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
• Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
• Recent Clinical Ward Pharmacy Experience
• Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure
• Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process
• Experience of teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others eg Trainee pharmacists/Foundation training pharmacists/other staff gorup
• Ability to critically review services and Processes
• Ability to work unsupervised and alone
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English
• Good team worker
• Assertive and diplomatic
• Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
• Shows empathy towards patients/carers
• Interest in development of others
• Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
• Enthusiastic, self-motivating, hardworking and conscientious
• Reliable with a good attendance record
• Ability to work under pressure

Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
• Awareness of Equal Opportunities

Other requirments

• Able to do Late duty, Weekend duties, bank holidays or oncall duties as rostered

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.