Senior Pharmacist-Transplantation & VADs - Harefield Hospital
Accepting applications until: 24-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 24-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals
- Address
- Hill End Road
- Town
- Harefield, Middlesex
- Postcode
- UB9 6JH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday core hours with rostered working on weekends and bank Holidays)
Salary
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc. HCAS
- 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
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, motivated, and innovative pharmacist to join the cardiothoracic transplant pharmacy team at Harefield Hospital in providing transplant pharmacy services from in-patient (including critical care) to out-patients delivering medicines optimisation reviews. As a key member of the multidisciplinary team, you will gain skills in critical care, renal, anti-infectives and transplant; and be responsible for delivering pharmaceutical care to patients who have received a ventricular assist device (VAD) or who are awaiting heart or lung transplantation, and for managing their medicines lifelong following surgery.
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As a key member of the multidisciplinary team your role will be to:
- Provide and develop clinical pharmacy services for Transplant & VAD patients across inpatients and in medicines optimisation clinics
- Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective, patient-focused care including antimicrobial stewardship
- To support the hospital’s homecare medicines (including OPAT) service for adult Transplant & VAD patients
- Work closely with the Transplant & VAD teams to promote medicines optimisation: support the development of guidelines, assist in education and training, manage medicines related risk and provide a comprehensive medication service
This post will suit individuals with a keen interest in transplant and working within a proactive multidisciplinary team, the department is committed to the development of its staff.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about this role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.
Should you require any further information regarding this post please contact Haifa Lyster via email on [email protected] or telephone on 01895 823737 ext 85087 or 07964 125247
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
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
Essential criteria
- Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- MPharm (or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- A registered independent prescriber
- Registered pre-registration Pharmacy tutor for the RPSGB
- Train the Trainer or equivalent qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ward Pharmacy experience
- Significant experience in delivering pharmaceutical services to medical patients
- Demonstrates positive working relationships with senior members of the MDT
Desirable criteria
- Has undertaken and published research
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of clinical supervision eg. trainee pharmacists, diploma pharmacists
- Communication skills eg. presentation skills, written documentation
- The ability to initiate and implement change
- Progressive and continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the use of clinical audit and quality improvement methodology
- Experience of financial reporting to directorates
- Experience in delivering pharmaceutical services to Transplant or ICU patients
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Haifa Lyster
- Job title
- Consultant Pharmacist - Transplantation & MCS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07850592073
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