Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular (Cardiology - Community)

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job description

Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular (Cardiology - Community)

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

To support leading, delivering, developing and evaluating clinical pharmacy services to patients in cardiovascular in accordance with the objectives set between the Specialty Clinical Lead, Directorate General Manager and Principal Pharmacist Cardiovascular. To be a role model in the field of cardiovascular and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for patients in line with GSTT corporate objectives.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the team, you will support the delivery of clinical services to patients with cardiovascular disease.

About us

The cardiovascular services at our foundation trust are one of the largest and most comprehensive in the UK. We are looking for an experienced and committed clinical pharmacist to deliver clinical pharmacy services to our directorates. Essentially you should be able to demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Job responsibilities

You will work in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorates targets. This will include delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a range of patients with cardiovascular conditions, supporting and training junior pharmacists, whilst also maintaining and developing the services further both within the primary and secondary care. This post may require cross site working across our partner organisations.

Candidates should have demonstrable competencies in hospital clinical pharmacy practice, excellent communication skills and commitment to pharmaceutical care. Furthermore candidates should be highly organised and have experience in delivering specialist pharmacist led clinics and clinical commissioning of high cost medicines.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
• Successfully completed an approved course for non-medical prescriber
• Registration with GPhC
• Registered with the appropriate healthcare regulator as a non-medical prescriber
• RPS Faculty Membership

Skills

• Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in acute and/or specialist medicine
• Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine patients
• Deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
• Identify and promote best practice
• Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
• Motivate and inspire others
• Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
• Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 3 environment
• Clinical experience in the community setting
• Demonstrate innovation
• Extend the boundaries of the profession
• Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level

Experience

• To have managed an area of clinical pharmacy services
• Identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
• Ensure national and local agendas are delivered
• Establish processes for the setting of standards of care
• Identify and manage changes that need to occur to achieve these
• Identify and manage the risks involved
• Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
• To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
• To identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget
• To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
• Have managed clinical pharmacy services in cardiovascular
• Reconcile national priorities with local realities
• Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
• To promote Improvements in Working Lives
• To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
• To demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders and the profession

Experience

• To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
• Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice
• Integrate research evidence into practice.
• Identify gaps in the evidence base
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
• Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
• To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a research component, or equivalent published evidence
• Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
• Undertake own research
• Guide and support others undertaking research
• Co-ordinate the undergraduate and preregistration student clinical activity

Skills

• To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
• Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
• Provide education and training to pharmacy and other staff
• Evaluate the training provided
• Participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
• Identify own training needs
• Actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
• Maintain a portfolio of practice
• To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a teaching component, or equivalent evidence of teaching experience
• To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
• Develop strategies to meet the training needs of staff
• Previous experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates

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.

Salary

£61,927 to £68,676 a year inclusive of HCA

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

196-LIS9435

Job locations

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road