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We are one of London's largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a strong profile of local services primarily serving the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.

Our specialist services are available to patients across a wider catchment area, providing nationally and internationally recognised work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology and foetal medicine.

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Address: King's College Hospital; Denmark Hill; London; SE5 9RS
Contact Number: 0203 299 9000

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Ref: 213-PRUH-7411 Vacancy ID: 5789345

Specialist Pharmacist – IBD & Gastroenterology (PRUH)

Closed for applications on: 17-Nov-2023 00:03

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 17-Nov-2023 00:03

Location

Site: Princess Royal University Hospital
Town: London
Postcode: BR6 8ND
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time
Job share
Flexible working
Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (With out of hours commitments, including weekends)

Salary

Salary: £56,388 - £62,785 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8a)

Specialty

Main area: Pharmacy

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To attend relevant meetings, including inpatient and outpatient MDTs.
To attend Care Group meetings attended by senior management and clinical staff, participating, and representing pharmacy views at such meetings
To manage specific service initiatives and changes affecting the clinical pharmacy service in the department and across the Trust

Patient/Client Care

To act as a specialist practitioner within the field and as an expert pharmacist in Gastroenterology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
To promote and deliver pharmaceutical care for Haematology and Oncology patients and more generally for all patients.
To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information using expert knowledge and experience to pharmacy, nursing, medical and other healthcare professionals on the care and treatment of patients, inside and outside of the Trust.
To participate in and contribute to the clinical/ward pharmacy service.
To actively participate in consultant ward rounds as appropriate.
To participate in outpatient clinics, and assist in the further development of the pharmacist’s role in this area.
To undertake patient medication review sessions and patient reviews in outpatient clinics as necessary.
To actively participate regularly in multidisciplinary ward rounds, antibiotic ward rounds and other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate, delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
To practice as an independent prescriber, in area of own expertise, as appropriate and provide direct high quality of care to inpatients and outpatients within scope of practice
To participate in patient education and counselling schemes for all Gastroenterology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease. patients/carers.
To ensure appropriate and timely supply of medication to patients in conjunction with dispensary staff, including the POD scheme and discharge facilitation for patients.
To liaise with other Pharmacists, Doctors and GPs to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues.

To develop shared care guidelines to support GP prescribing as necessary.
To support the set up and provision of Hackett compliant homecare services as necessary.
Maintain and further develop specialist information on the use of drugs in clinical conditions relevant to Gastroenterology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease., ensuring accurate and up to date clinical information is available to all pharmacists performing out of hours duties in a format relevant to those pharmacists needs.
To participate in Trust adverse incident reporting scheme.

Financial/Resource Management

To support the Principal Pharmacist in monitoring drug expenditure within the Care Group and provide accurate expenditure information, with appropriate analysis, to the Clinical Director and General manager.
To identify areas of potential cost-savings within the Gastroenterology Care Group, and to implement systems to realise savings and contain prescribing costs.
Using horizon scanning techniques identify future high cost medications.
To support the development and implementation of policies to control drug expenditure and ensure cost-effective prescribing.
To educate other healthcare professionals on the costs associated with drug therapy and promote the use of evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing within the care group.
To attend Care Group or Specialty financial meetings when required.
To work across traditional boundaries e.g. primary and secondary care.
To monitor all FP10 and homecare prescribing costs and feed those to the Trust, NHSE and CCGs when required
To optimise the use of homecare providers to ensure VAT savings are realised as necessary.

People Management and Performance

To lead, coach and manage the performance of the junior staff in line with good people management practices, ensuring excellence is recognised and underperformance is addressed.
To participate in regular performance appraisal meetings and ensure line reports have a clear set of objectives and development plans.

To ensure line reports are compliant with all statutory, mandatory training together with any professional training requirements, ensuring they are up to date and fully compliant.
To manage line reports absences including sickness in line with Trust policy ensuring the appropriate return to work meetings occur, e-roster is updated and productivity is at keep to the highest possible level.
To ensure overall wellbeing of the team is maintained. Continuously support in improving the morale of the team and implementing a culture of zero-tolerance for bullying and harassment.

To participate in teaching and supervising students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
To act as postgraduate tutor for Diploma students.
To act as a tutor for trainee pharmacists.
To participate in teaching nurses, medical staff, and AHPs.
To participate in the recruitment and selection of pharmacy students, trainee pharmacists, and junior pharmacists as needed.
To regularly train, supervise and assess at ward level junior pharmacy staff providing a ward/clinical pharmacy service to wards within the Care Group.
To plan activities for, supervise, train and assess at ward level, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacists and students.
To participate in the in-service clinical pharmacy training of all pharmacy staff.
To undertake CPD to ensure that knowledge is continually updated.
To participate regularly in the induction, training and development of medical, nursing and other healthcare staff.
To delegate tasks to junior staff as and when required.
To manage, organise and/or support the induction of new pharmacy staff.

Research & Development

To regularly lead, participate in and co-ordinate relevant research or audit projects.
To participate in audit and practice research to investigate and where appropriate improve the quality of service.
To publish and present the results and outcomes of own research and audits locally, nationally or internationally as appropriate.
To supervise junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainee pharmacists undertaking audit projects.
To liaise with clinical trial nurses and pharmacy staff with regards to monitoring and continuing supply of trial medicines to patients.
To assess and provide highly specialised advice on clinical trial protocols for Haematology and Oncology patients.

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.