Specialist Pharmacist - Surgery and Imaging & Anaesthetics

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is hiring a Specialist Pharmacist for Surgery and Imaging & Anaesthetics. The role entails providing a clinical pharmacy service, managing and supervising pharmacy staff, and delivering teaching and clinical support within the surgical wards and ICU. A registered pharmacist with clinical pharmacy experience is essential, and the position offers a competitive salary within the range of £54,320 to £60,981 per annum.

Qualifications

• Registered as a practising pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience in providing pharmaceutical care in a hospital setting.
• Demonstrable understanding of ethical and legal aspects of clinical trials.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for clinical pharmacy service to Surgery and I&A directorates.
• Supervise junior pharmacists and pre-registration staff.
• Provide teaching and mentoring to pharmacy, medical, and nursing staff.

Skills

Clinical Practice

Pharmaceutical knowledge

Leadership

Communication

Education

Registered pharmacist

Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy

Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Registered Independent Prescriber

Job description

Go back Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Pharmacist - Surgery and Imaging & Anaesthetics

The closing date is 04 June 2025

To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Surgery and I&A

To ensure the safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the specialties and to support and supervise less experienced pharmacists on rotation.

MANAGES: Resident pharmacist as directed by Lead Pharmacist, Education and Training

SUPERVISES: Rotational resident and pre-registration pharmacists and other junior staff

Main duties of the job

To provide a pharmacy clinical service to the surgical wards and Intensive Care Unit as determined by line manager

To undertake directorate work as determined by the Lead Directorate Pharmacists for Imaging and Anaesthetics and Surgery.

To deliver teaching and mentoring to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff

About us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites--Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital--along with award-winning clinics across North West London.

Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children's services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.

We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.

We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.

The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven't heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.

Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.

Job responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities

• Clinical Practice
  • Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to the Surgery and I&A directorates. This includes the surgery wards and clinical areas, theatres, outpatient clinics.
    • Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems.
    • Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if
    • Ensure the effective outcomes of treatment with
    • Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their
    • Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the optimal use of their
    • Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication, including the transcription of requests for
    • Demonstrate professional accountability to
  • Liaise with the Lead Directorate Pharmacists to provide and develop clinical pharmacy services to the directorate including ward pharmacy and medicines
  • Aim to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in the patients as
  • Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients pharmaceutical needs to other pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care
  • Demonstrate and apply general pharmaceutical knowledge, and where applicable, specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge in core areas in order to plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes for patients allocated, thereby ensuring the quality of patient
  • Participate in the post-take ward rounds to integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant
  • Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and
  • Work across traditional boundaries, including the transcription of discharge
  • Be readily available and keen to answer any general medicine related pharmaceutical queries from patients, pharmacists and other members of staff within pharmacy as well as from other health care professionals including medical
  • Proactively provide advice and information on any pharmaceutical issues within the Surgery and I&A directorates to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals as
  • Demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trusts Clinical Governance
  • Support the maintenance and development of the Medicines Management Initiatives including use of patients own medicines and self-medication.
• Act as a role model for junior pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists in the
• Promote best practice e.g. evidence-based practice through prescription
• Implement and/or follow agreed clinical governance initiatives such as incident/error
• Develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives and contribute to pharmacy research initiatives being undertaken within the

Job description

Job responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to the Surgery and I&A directorates. This includes the surgery wards and clinical areas, theatres, outpatient clinics.
  • Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems.
  • Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if
  • Ensure the effective outcomes of treatment with
  • Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their
  • Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the optimal use of their
  • Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication, including the transcription of requests for
  • Demonstrate professional accountability to
• Liaise with the Lead Directorate Pharmacists to provide and develop clinical pharmacy services to the directorate including ward pharmacy and medicines
• Aim to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in the patients as
• Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients pharmaceutical needs to other pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care
• Demonstrate and apply general pharmaceutical knowledge, and where applicable, specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge in core areas in order to plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes for patients allocated, thereby ensuring the quality of patient
• Participate in the post-take ward rounds to integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant
• Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and
• Work across traditional boundaries, including the transcription of discharge
• Be readily available and keen to answer any general medicine related pharmaceutical queries from patients, pharmacists and other members of staff within pharmacy as well as from other health care professionals including medical
• Proactively provide advice and information on any pharmaceutical issues within the Surgery and I&A directorates to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals as
• Demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trusts Clinical Governance
• Support the maintenance and development of the Medicines Management Initiatives including use of patients own medicines and self-medication.

2. Leadership

• Act as a role model for junior pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists in the
• Promote best practice e.g. evidence-based practice through prescription
• Implement and/or follow agreed clinical governance initiatives such as incident/error
• Develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives and contribute to pharmacy research initiatives being undertaken within the

3. Management of service

• Ensure national and local agendas are
• Follow and conform to relevant standards of
• Identify and manage risks in relation to medicines use according to policy/protocol.
• Delegate duties / responsibilities appropriately to junior
• Evaluate the performance of junior staff against identified criteria using departmental/Trust IPR tools and General Level Competence
• Provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information in accordance with the needs of the directorate.
• Identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget, thereby providing information on drug usage and expenditure to the

4. Evaluation of Service

• Monitor clinical pharmacy in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these
• Document the workload and quality of pharmacy services in line with departmental and corporate objectives.
• Perform audits of drug usage within the Directorate as part of the multi-disciplinary audit process, based on national and service priorities e.g. NICE, CLAHRC research and locally agreed requirements.
• Undertake assessments/evaluations as required e.g. of new products within the allocated specialty

5. Research and Service Development

• Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice within the Surgery and I&A
• Integrate research evidence into
• Facilitate the implementation of relevant clinical trials.
• Develop clinical pathways within specialty
• Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services
• Assist with the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate
• Adopt continuous improvement methodology and support Pharmacy in becoming a continuous improvement

6. Education and Training

• Participate in the training and supervision of junior pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacy graduates in providing a clinical pharmacy service to medical patients
• Identify training needs of junior staff in order to undertake their required
• Develop strategies to meet the training needs of
• Provide education and training to pharmacy and other
• Evaluate the training
• Participate in the clinical training of the ward
• Identify own training needs and maintain a portfolio of
• Participate in the Departmental Education and Training Programme and ensure that a written record of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is maintained for review at
• Participate in in-service clinical pharmacy teaching and multi-disciplinary teaching as

7. Other

• Maintain a broad level of pharmacy practice through ensuring a sound base of pharmaceutical knowledge.
• Ensure all communication, which may be complex, contentious or sensitive, is undertaken in a responsive and inclusive manner, focusing on improvement and ways to move
• Ensure all communication is presented appropriately to the different recipients, according to levels of understanding, type of communication being imparted and possible barriers such as language, culture, understanding or physical or mental health
• Participate in education and training programmes to develop skills as part of a commitment to continuing education and the concept of lifelong
• Be aware of, and apply, relevant legislation such as the H & SAWA, COSHH, Medicines Act, GMP etc.
• At all times practice in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• Follow legal, ethical, professional and employers codes of
• Any other duties as reasonably required by the Chief

This job description may be subject to change according to the varying needs of the service. Such changes will be made after discussion between the post holder and his/her manager.

All duties must be carried out under supervision or within Trust policy and procedure. You must never undertake any duties that are outside your area of skill or knowledge level. If you are unsure you must seek clarification from a more senior member of staff.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Registered as a practising pharmacist with the general Pharmaceutical Council
• Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• ICH GCP Training
• Registered Independent Prescriber

Personal Qualities

• Enthusiasm for the position and a mature and positive approach
• Methodical with attention to detail
• Friendly, empathetic and reliable team worker able to relate to all grades of staff
• Ability to cope well within a busy environment

Experience

• Working as a clinical pharmacist in Hospital including the provision of pharmaceutical care to patients on a medical/surgical wards
• Wider acute experience in Medicines Management
• Carrying out audit
• Supervision of staff
• Reviewing/writing policies, procedures and guidelines
• Budgetary management
• Variety of specialist clinical practice e.g. pre-assessment clinic, critical care and theatres
• Designing and delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary (MDT) environment
• Management e.g. recruitment / appraisal / training / leadership / motivation / sickness absence

Skills and knowledge

• Meet expected levels of practice
• Demonstrable and clear understanding of ethical and legal aspects of clinical trials
• Organisation and prioritisation of clinical work
• Problem solving and risk assessment
• Good oral and written communication and presentation skills to convey complex and potentially sensitive information
• Identifies appropriate measures of service
• Influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
• Identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services.

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.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

£54,320 to £60,981 a yearper annum incl. HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

289-CS-51

Job locations

Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust