Senior Clinical Pharmacist-Formulary and Governance

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity which further strengthens your clinical leadership skills as part of an inclusive and forward thinking multidisciplinary team on our inpatient rehabilitation wards, striving to empower our patients, encourage independence and achieve the best outcomes possible.

Alongside this patient centred role you will have an amazing opportunity to work across boundaries in collaboration with internal teams, external partners and integrated care boards ensuring effective formulary management, policy and guideline development underpinned by robust governance processes.

If you are looking for a challenge, aspiring to improve yourself and others and want to be a part of a progressive and highly motivated team, dedicated to excellent patient care, this is the role for you.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with strong clinical leadership skills to provide clinical support and medicines expertise to multidisciplinary teams on our inpatient rehabilitation wards in Essex and wider across the organisation.

The role requires effective communication skills, ability to coach, mentor and supervise junior staff, build team morale and improve outcomes for patients through ongoing quality improvement initiatives and service development. You should be able to work collaboratively with staff, patients and families to optimise medication regimes, empower and encourage independence.

You should have a good understanding of governance structures and processes, have excellent organisational skills and understanding of formulary development, policies and guidelines.

The role includes provision of secretariat support to the Trust medicines optimisation group, requiring strict adherence to timelines and ability to organise self and others.

A strong interest in technology and communication is well suited to this role as it includes responsibilities around management and development of the Trust pharmacy and medicines intranet page,

You will represent the organisation, working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners on the development and management of formularies and clinical pathways across Mid & South Essex and North East London integrated care boards.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of an effective clinical pharmacy service on allocated inpatient wards and provide leadership to the pharmacy team and wider multidisciplinary team.

They will be required to supervise junior pharmacy staff, coach and mentor and have line management responsibilities.

They will be involved in delivering medicines related teaching sessions to colleagues and wider teams, lead on audits and quality improvement projects, investigate medicines related incidents and develop robust improvement plans where needed.

They will have responsibilities to write and review medicines related policies and guidelines and support junior staff develop these skills.

Responsible for preparing medicines optimisation group agendas and minutes, maintain the medicines related documents database and be the organisational lead for development of medicines formularies and clinical pathways across the sector.

They should have strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across boundaries with internal teams, external partners and integrated care boards.

The pharmacy team has grown exponentially over the last few years and the dynamic is constantly changing. We are an extremely motivated and forward thinking group of individuals, always looking to excel and deliver improved patient care through quality improvement projects and extension of current roles by diversifying into specialist areas across the Trust. We work in a supportive and friendly environment, are a caring and compassionate team who look after each other at all times.

NELFT provides an inclusive and nurturing culture and strongly believes in the development of its staff to ensure they have the appropriate knowledge and skills to deliver safe and effective patient care. We are kind and respectful and work with our communities to ensure we meet expectations and achieve the best outcomes for our patients.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

References

Please ensure that the references are from your most recent employer and one of these must be your direct Line Manager or Supervisor. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. Additionally, ensure that any gaps in your employment history are clearly indicated. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

If you like the sound of working with NELFT, don't waste a moment and apply now!

Person specification

Essential and Desirable

Essential criteria

• Professional qualifications and registration
• Writing style, grammar, punctuation, spelling and accuracy
• Clinical qualifications
• Extent of clinical experience in appropriate settings
• Extent of managerial experience
• Extent of experience in teaching, coaching, mentoring and supervision
• Leadership experience
• Experience of writing and reviewing medicines related documents
• Understanding of NHS priorities, challenges and changing landscape
• Experience of change management

Desirable criteria

• NMP qualification and experience
• Evidence of clinical audit, problem solving and quality improvement initiatives
• Understanding of governance structures and processes internal and external to the organisation
• Experience of formulary management and clinical pathway development
• Experience and understanding of medicines groups or committees-roles and functions

Essential and Desirable

Essential criteria

• Professional Qualifications

Desirable criteria

• NMP Qaulification

Essential and Desirable

Essential criteria

• Professional Qualification

Desirable criteria

• NMP Qualification

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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

• Senior Clinical Pharmacist-Formulary and Governance Personal Specification (PDF, 393.8KB)
• Senior Clinical Pharmacist-Formulary and Governance Personal Specification (PDF, 224.6KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)