Senior Clinical Pharmacist

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with excellent clinical and interpersonal skills to lead high-quality care to the Medicine and Emergency Services at University College London Hospital.

Medicine and Emergency Services are delivered mainly by two Divisions including the Emergency Services Division with its Emergency Department, Acute Medicine and Ambulatory Care clinical areas, and the Medical Specialties Division which encompasses inpatients wards and several outpatients services such as dermatology, rheumatology, neurophysiology, care of the older person, respiratory medicine, clinical pharmacology, nephrology (with the Royal Free London), diabetes and endocrinology, and cardiology.

Interview date: Two weeks after closing date

Main duties of the job

Your duties will include co-ordinating and participating in the delivery of day-to-day pharmacy services to medical clinical areas, working closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), attending ward rounds, and other relevant governance and clinical meetings. There will be opportunities to develop and participate in services such as outpatients clinics for the management of long-term medical conditions.

You will use your independent prescribing skills to optimise inpatient medication regimens and prepare handover plans for discharge. As an active member of the MDT you will contribute to service development and quality improvement projects within Medicine and Emergency Services. You will support the MDT, acting as a point of contact for staff and patients with medicines related queries during inpatient admissions, post-discharge, and occasionally in relation to other homecare arrangements.

Through service evaluations and quality improvement projects, you will work to develop and enhance our existing systems and processes, particularly where safety, efficiency, and productivity can be improved through our Electronic Health Records System, Epic.

You will support clinical pathways that cross care boundaries, including ensuring timely transfer discharge information using the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS), support admission avoidance or early discharge pathways such as Hospital at Home, Virtual Wards or Outpatients Parenteral Antibacterials Therapy (OPAT) services.

Working for our organisation

Where applicable, you will participate in the delivery of cost saving schemes involving complex or high cost drugs, by liaising with UCLH commissioning pharmacists and colleagues across North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Board (ICB), and Integrated Care Systems (ICS). You will also support homecare services for Medical Specialties patients on specialist and/or high cost drugs, aiming to ensure that all patients are registered on Blueteq® and that the data requirements of our commissioners are met.

Additional management and leadership responsibilities for the Emergency Services and Medical Specialties Divisions will include leading medicines related risk management and governance, medicines expenditure analysis and reporting, audits and service evaluations, multi-professional education and training, and other strategic projects as required. You will also represent the UCLH Pharmacy Department at Directorate and Divisional clinical governance meetings.

You will work as part of our broader clinical pharmacy team and contribute to local and national initiatives to develop and enhance the pharmacy service. You will also contribute to the delivery of educational and developmental programmes, including the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

UCLH top trust to work at in England - for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

*In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England - for the second year in a row.

UCLH top trust to work at in England - for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.

Person specification

Qualifications, knowledge & competence

Essential criteria

• Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
• Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Minimum of five years' experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
• Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy

Desirable criteria

• Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses

Management & leadership skills

Essential criteria

• Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities
• Experience in co-ordinating the dayto-day practice activities of others
• Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service
• Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
• Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activity
• Collates data regarding service provision
• Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
• Demonstrates initiative
• Ability to work autonomously
• The ability to identify and manage risks

Desirable criteria

• Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
• Experience in management of others
• Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
• Ability to utilise database or other software packages to support and enhance work activity
• Evaluates service provision
• Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
• Demonstrates innovation
• Delegates authority appropriately
• Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures

Clinical & interpersonal skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
• The ability to identify and prioritise own clinical workload
• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
• Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
• Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
• Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
• Maintains standards of patient care
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
• Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects
• Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
• Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi -disciplinary team
• Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within acute medicine, and respects confidentiality

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
• Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in complex emergency and acute medical patients
• Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
• Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
• Enhances the quality of patient care
• Demonstrable use of clinical audit and quality improvement to improve practice
• Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures

Education & training skills

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of delivering educational material within pharmacy
• Identifies own training needs

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
• Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met

Research & development skills

Essential criteria

• Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
• Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in neonatal care and women's health
• Maintains a portfolio of practice

Desirable criteria

• Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
• Integrates research evidence into practice

At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities. Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/why-choose-uclh/flexible-working.

We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.

Additionally, UCLH Arts and Heritage's staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.

We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.

We are also members of www.mytrustbenefits.co.uk/ which offers discounts on high street retail stores, offers on travel deals, and also to take advantage of cash back schemes.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

Please note that if you are at present in a training position on the 2016 new junior doctor's contract and are applying for a Trust doctor role your salary will not be pay protected.

You will be placed on the appropriate point of the Trust Doctor pay scale based on your previous experience.

Please note that if you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date of the advert to assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 984.2KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 262.3KB)
• UCLH Values (PDF, 860.9KB)