Lead Pharmacist for Anticoagulation & Surgery

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Job description

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

About

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors.

Our hospitals provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. Over the last year, our emergency performance has been among the strongest in London, despite our emergency departments being among the busiest in the capital.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich regularly achieves the fastest ambulance turnaround times in London. The critical care unit at the hospital is one of the few in the country to meet the gold standard for consultant and junior doctor staffing.

University Hospital Lewisham has the largest stroke rehabilitation centre in the country, and the third largest specialist centre in the UK for treating blood conditions such as sickle cell. The hospital is one of the few in the country to offer opt-out HIV testing in the emergency department, ensuring that any patient who has a blood test is routinely screened for HIV.

The Trust’s community services for children and adults in Lewisham are rated “Outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.

The Trust is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Key details

Location

Site: University Hospital Lewisham

Address: High Street Lewisham

Town: London

Postcode: SE13 6LH

Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (includes weekend working commitment)

Salary

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum including HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Grade: (Band 8a)

Specialty

Main area: Pharmacy

Job overview

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical pharmacist, to lead and develop the surgery and anticoagulation service at the UHL site. The post-holder will work together with surgeons, consultant haematologists and anticoagulation CNS to provide and develop the anticoagulation and haematology service at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

This post is a permanent post, and is an excellent opportunity for a clinical pharmacist, with experience working in anticoagulation, and a desire to develop their leadership and management skills.

You will be expected to lead and develop both the surgery & specialist anticoagulation services across the Trust. This includes the promotion of safe, effective and cost effective medications use to facilitate patient admission and enhance continuity of care across the primary and secondary care interface.

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At Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust we are committed to providing excellent patient care, and the post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership within the pharmacy team, develop clinical pharmacy services and identify and deliver drug cost savings.

You will have excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; you must be able to manage your own workload, motivate and manage others, work as part of a team, and engage at a high level with key stakeholders within the Division.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Summary:

1. To lead and develop the both clinical haematology & specialist anticoagulation services across the Trust. This includes the promotion of safe, effective and cost effective anticoagulants use to facilitate patient admission and enhance continuity of care across the primary and secondary care interface.
2. You will also be expected to -
3. Represent the Pharmacy department at Thrombosis Committee.
4. And to represent the Trust at Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel and at the South London Cardiovascular Network.
5. To act as a role model and provide a consistently high standard of pharmaceutical service to patients in line with the Trust and Departmental objectives.
6. To support the divisions across the Trust in managing their anticoagulants expenditure and act as the point of liaison for any service developments that involves anticoagulation services.
7. To provide operational and clinical support to the pharmacy department as dictated by the needs of the clinical pharmacy service across the Trust. This includes supervision, training and support to junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and other pharmacy staff as necessary.
8. To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist for Surgery and Theatres at Surgery Divisional meeting if appropriate.

Key Result Areas & Performance:

Clinical Services and Patient Care

1. To participate in the ‘front-line’ provision of Pharmacy Services as appropriate and when required.
2. To act as a clinical pharmacist in an appropriate area and participate in consultant ward rounds as required.
3. To act as a clinical role model for other pharmacists within the team and demonstrate the ability to provide service that ensures the safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of medicines and the ability to check clinically screened dispensed prescriptions.
4. To lead and develop the specialist anticoagulation services inclusive of the pharmacy-led anticoagulation clinics across the Trust.
5. To lead the training programme on anticoagulants use for pharmacists providing service to wards across the Trust to ensure efficient and safe provision of clinical pharmacy service.
6. To be the Specialist Clinical Pharmacist for anticoagulation promoting the prudent use of anticoagulants across the Trust, in line with local and national guidelines.
7. To provide a safe and patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to wards across the Trust. This includes undertaking medicines reconciliation, assessing pharmaceutical needs, assessing and facilitating the use of Patient’s Own Drugs, ensuring appropriate drugs supply, maintaining both the One Stop Dispensing system and ward based dispensing service by pharmacy staff.
8. To participate in consultant post-take ward rounds to identify and resolve pharmaceutical care needs of patients and ensure that any follow up plans are shared with the ward based pharmacy team and medical staff as appropriate.
9. To be accredited for discharge prescription transcribing/drug listing in order to facilitate patient’s discharge process.
10. To support the investigation of medication related incidents and formulation/delivery of action plans across the Trust to address any problems identified with anticoagulants.
11. To contribute to the development and implementation of strategies to improve safe medicines use across the Trust.
12. To liaise with primary care colleagues to gather and disseminate patient medication issues to other healthcare staff.

Leadership & Service Development

1. To lead and support the appropriate use of anticoagulants across the Trust. This includes setting and monitoring quality standards for anticoagulants use and the provision of feedback to the Principal Pharmacist Surgery & Theatres.
2. To act as pharmacy representative and lead on service developments within clinical haematology ensuring any changes are in-line with Trust and departmental objective.
3. To provide the Clinical Director of Pharmacy with details of output, performance and activity at specified time intervals in an agreed format.
4. To identify resources required to improve pharmacy services within the division.
5. To support the development, implementation and adherence to local and national guidelines/policies to ensure cost-effective and safe prescribing of anticoagulants.
6. To collaborate in the development of Integrated Care Pathways and Patient Group Directions for both clinical haematology and anticoagulation services as necessary.
7. To liaise with other senior pharmacy staff to ensure the effective provision of Pharmacy Services.

Division support

1. To actively contribute to the management of the anticoagulants expenditure for the divisions across the trust through expenditure monitoring, forecasting, anticoagulants use audits and feedback to the service and general managers to ensure the most effective use of resources.
2. To identify areas of potential cost-savings for anticoagulants, and to implement systems to realise savings and contain prescribing costs.
3. To educate healthcare professionals on the costs associated with medicines within clinical haematology and in particular anticoagulant therapies and promote the use of evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing within divisions.
4. To participate in the preparation of business cases to support service developments in Pharmacy, Clinical Haematology and Anticoagulation services as necessary.
5. To actively participate in the Thrombosis Committee and division meetings as necessary.

Staff Management and Training

1. To manage the induction and development of pharmacy staff, according to their identified needs and the development and funding frameworks of the department in liaison with the Lead Pharmacist for Education and Training.
2. To undertake regular performance reviews of all staff managed according to Trust procedures:

Ø Appraisals and objective setting

Ø Sickness absence

Ø Disciplinary and grievance matters

Ø Recruitment and selection

Ø Personal development

Ø Departmental workload allocations

1. To support the education and training of other healthcare professionals.
2. To participate and contribute to clinical training programmes at a local and national level e.g. summer students, pharmacy undergraduates.
3. To evaluate and develop own management and professional knowledge competencies by attendance to in house/external training programmes, self education and practice research.
4. To undertake CPD to ensure that knowledge is continually updated.
5. To arrange relevant departmental meetings across the Trust that will enable staff to be brought up to date on current issues and to address staff development needs on anticoagulation therapies.
6. To be a postgraduate tutor (pre-registration, diploma or MSc) for pharmacy staff as appropriate and required.

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria

• B. Pharm / M. Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or equivalent.
• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Postgraduate Diploma in either Clinical Pharmacy or General Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent).
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice.

Desirable criteria

• Other postgraduate qualifications relevant to pharmacy practice, such as management or education & training qualifications.
• Independent Prescriber in Anticoagulation.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post registration experience in hospital clinical pharmacy or equivalent relevant area of practice.
• Demonstrable experience in supervising others.
• Demonstrable experience of managing staff/ teams.
• Demonstrable experience of co-ordinating and leading on clinical audit.
• Demonstrable experience of protocol/ guideline development.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of disciplinary matters and be able to impart results from them to staff in an appropriate and considered manner.
• Demonstrable experience in the delivery of formal education and training at postgraduate level.

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of relevant local and national standards and regulations associated with the provision of education and training.
• Ability to work on own initiative and effectively as part of a team both within pharmacy and a multidisciplinary environment.
• Ability to prioritise and plan work effectively alone and for a team including the ability to delegate appropriately.
• Ability to think strategically.
• Applies sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information effectively using clear written and spoken English and overcome barriers to understanding.
• Ability to provide highly complex information on Pharmacy Services issues and impart knowledge to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor/executive director level).
• Ability to work positively and calmly under pressure.
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office software with proven computer literacy and IT skills.
• Demonstrated accurate numeric skills.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to manage difficult and complex issues or refer appropriately.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Kevin Day

Job title: Principal Pharmacist for Surgery and Theatres

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 0208 333 3000

or

Name: Sinéad O’Halloran

Job title: Consultant Pharmacist Critical Care

Telephone number: 0208 836 4936

Email address: [email protected]