Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist -Critical Care and Formulary

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Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Critical Care and Formulary

Band 8a

Main area: Pharmacy Critical Care
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent (oncall, weekends and late shifts)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 391-NMUH-7026260

Site: North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Town: London
Salary: £59,490 - £66,239 per annum including HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/03/2025 23:59

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 with efficient, safe and compassionate care. 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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacist with vision and leadership skills to join the Trust as part of the Critical Care team and lead on the trust formulary.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced professional with teaching and clinical skills. They will have good interpersonal, leadership, and managerial skills. You should possess a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent and have hospital pharmacy experience in critical care.

Main duties of the job

• To manage, deliver, develop and monitor the pharmacy critical care service in the Trust working alongside the wider MDT.
• To develop and maintain the web-based hospital formulary, netFormulary in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines information.
• To provide training in critical care skills to clinical staff.
• To act as a trainee pharmacist tutor/diploma mentor when requested by the E&T Lead.
• To co-ordinate and contribute to writing/checking pharmacy information bulletins.
• To provide a highly specialist service to critical care by ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high-quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety/governance initiatives, and adherence to trust policies and guidelines.
• Be responsible for advising in this area, managing drug budget, and for leading, developing, and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service provided to this area.
• Provide a regular ward pharmacy commitment and provide a safe, effective, and efficient clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services including training and implementation of relevant policies and risk management initiatives.
• Provide support as requested to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production, and medicines management programme.
• Regularly lead on/initiate/contribute to relevant practice research or audit projects within the Pharmacy and publish the results of such work, as appropriate.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

• MRPharmS or equivalent and registered with GPhC.
• Postgraduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it.
• Independent non-medical prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Advanced qualification in specialist area.

Skills and aptitudes

• 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 carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysis.
• Ability to lead service.
• Ability to motivate, influence, and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team, and management.
• Ability to work with colleagues as part of a team.
• Ability to resolve conflict.
• Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively.
• Demonstrate analytical and reasoning skills.

Experience

• Ability to critically review services and processes.
• Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace.
• Ability to work unsupervised and alone.
• Integrate research evidence into practice.
• Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required.
• Use of search engines/medical data knowledge of the requirements of national organisations involved in critical care bases to retrieve information.
• Formulary experience.
• Experience in carrying out literature evaluations.
• Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice.

Knowledge

• CRC experience.
• Ability to manage and supervise staff.
• Leading and implementing change.
• Ability to deal directly with the public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff.
• Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure.
• Understanding of Formulary & DUR and clinical trial issues.
• Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process.
• Project management experience.

Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values.

Personal Qualities and attributes

• Enthusiastic, well motivated, hardworking, punctual.
• Identifies own training needs; actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice.
• Flexibility to work weekends, Bank Holidays, late duties and on-call and potential 7-day working.
• Reliable with a good attendance record.