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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Pharmacist – Clinical Commissioning Support
Closed for applications on: 2-May-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 2-May-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals mainly but cross site role working across GSTT and RBHH
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 p.a. inclusive of HCA.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team as the Senior Pharmacist for Clinical Commissioning Support (fixed-term maternity cover).
Working closely with our Trust's lead Clinical Commissioning Pharmacist, this role will support the delivery of the core aspects of the Clinical Commissioning Pharmacist's responsibilities, with a main focus upon the services provided on the Guy's and St Thomas's sites.
The role will ensure that we are providing the most cost effective care to our patients through the appropriate implementations of recommendations made by NICE, NHS England and other advisory bodies. It will ensure that NHS funds to support the provision of medicines, specifically high cost and PBR-excluded drugs, are being used responsibly and to support the provision of services as described by local and national commissioners.
You will have the opportunity to work closely with various teams across GSTT, (internal and external to Pharmacy) and teams across the SEL ICB. The role will be full of personal and professional development opportunities, including financial management, project management and service development.
If you are enthusiastic, have excellent attention to detail and enjoy collaborative working, this role is for you!
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The main focus of this role is to support delivery of the work plan associated with the role of the Clinical Commissioning Pharmacist.
The role will focus specifically upon the work undertaken at the Guy’s and St Thomas’s site but will support the wider work associated with Clinical Commissioning pathways across the entire GSTT organisation.
The role will act as a deputy for the Lead Pharmacist for Clinical Commissioning and represent the Trust at NHS England / Regional meetings.
The role will be responsible for
- Supporting the oversight and implementation of appropriate governance and financial pathways linked to the use of high cost medicines in specialist service
- Working with the wider clinical team to ensure the implementation of NICE Technology Appraisals in line with national guidance
- Work across the South East London (SEL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) to implement innovative projects (such as QIPP) that will optimise the use of medicines on a large scale and ensure patients are able to access the most effective treatments in an effective manner
- Management of the Trust’s IVIg use
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have over 25,300 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, and neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information relating to the main responsibilities of the role, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
- MPharm degree (or equivalent)
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Completed, or working towards completion of, advanced pharmacist framework
- Completion of any relevant management / leadership course
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of preparation and submission of medicine related finance reports, including submission of individual funding requests (IFRs), Blueteq® forms and business cases.
- Knowledge of the NICE medicine approval processes and subsequent adoption within healthcare organisations (i.e. Drugs and Therapeutic committees)
- Knowledge of the financial management of medications and regional and national commissioning arrangements
- Knowledge of Medicines & Pharmacy Legislation, and professional ethics
- Experience of conducting Quality Improvement (QI) / Audit
- Understanding of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (for both colleagues and patients)
- Experience of providing Education and Training to members of the pharmacy department
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services to a specialist service
- Experience of developing guidelines / protocols / policies relevant to a clinical speciality
- Experience of representing pharmacy at a directorate / senior team level
- Experience of leading change innovation or process change
- Understanding of the wider South East London (SEL) Integrated Care System (ICS) health priorities.
- Experience of acting as a line manager / tutor / mentor for a junior member of staff, involving objective setting and PDRs
- Understanding of Patient Access schemes and Early Access Medicines schemes.
- Understanding of medicines procurement pathways.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to liaise and negotiate effectively at all levels
- Ability to work as an inspirational leader to pharmacy and other clinical staff, inspiring confidence in others
- Able to understand, disseminate and present complex information using both verbal and written disciplines
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, negotiating constructively and successfully with others
- Ability to organise self and others
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport with colleagues
- Ability to work independently and have own accountability for professional actions
- Able to support and lead on the delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to the safe and effective use of medicines
- Ability to interpret financial data and identify spending trends and medicines value opportunities
Desirable criteria
- Able to articulate own leadership and / or management style
- Able to interpret clinical and operational data to inform changes to practice and service delivery
- Project management skills
- Ability to influence practice at a department level using innovative practice
- Able to integrate research into clinical practice
- Ability to identify and promote best practice within the speciality.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Steven Man
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Commissioning Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7351 8907
- Additional information
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