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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 Medicines Advice and Medicines Use & Safety (MUS) Pharmacist
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Jul-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's Hospital
- Address
- Great Maze Pond
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 8 months (Position funded until 31 March 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 p.a. inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Interview date
- 17/07/2024
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 looking for a senior pharmacist for the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) Medicines Use & Safety and Medicines Advice teams. NHS SPS is a service commissioned for England by NHSE according to the service specification (see www.sps.nhs.uk).
The national specification for Medicines Use & Safety includes development of national medicines governance documents; national provision of medication safety and optimisation support and resources, and a programme of events that provide networking opportunities to share knowledge, skills and exemplar practice.
The national specification for Medicines Advice includes answering clinical enquiries about medicines for primary care health care professionals, and producing resources to support safe and effective use of medicines.
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· Develop resources that can be used by health care professionals to improve patient care
· Develop resources that can be used by MO committees nationally to inform evidence-based practice
· Develop resources that help organisations to improve medication safety
· Assist senior colleagues with the preparation and delivery of national Medication Safety Officer (MSO) webinars and Medication safety across the System webinars
· Assist senior colleagues with the preparation of information to support the management of national drug shortages
· Prepare the Medicine Awareness Daily Bulletin
· Answers medication related queries
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 around 22,700 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, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See job description for full details about this role.
Leadership responsibilities
- Provide advice to health care professionals in line with deliverables of SPS.
- Maintain specialist knowledge of medicines optimisation as it applies across integrated care systems.
- Act as an expert resource nationally.
- Support implementation of strategies and plans for the NHS SPS MA and MUS services for England.
Service improvement and management responsibility
- Work collaboratively with other pharmacy professionals within NHS SPS.
- Support scoping, organising, and carrying out changes to service delivery necessary across England in order to meet the ongoing objectives of the MA and MUS services.
Research and innovation
- Undertake and promote research and development where this supports the broader strategic objectives of MA and MUS.
- Support development and implementation of qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the organisational strategy.
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
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm Master of Pharmacy
- Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy/relevant field or equivalent experience
- Pharmacist (Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council)
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification (MSc) in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification in evidence-based healthcare, or equivalent
- Post-graduate level original research and/or publication in an area relevant specifically to the delivery of Medicines Optimisation
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- In depth knowledge of Medicines Optimisation as it pertains to both primary and secondary care
- Significant experience delivering medicines advice to health care professionals
- Experience of producing (or input into) proactive information
Desirable criteria
- Existing knowledge of the Specialist Pharmacy Service and its development and role in delivery of Medicines Optimisation
- Experience of working with medicines commissioning and decision-making structures within the NHS to influence change
- Experience of working in medication safety (e.g. part of medication safety team)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good writing skills
- Ability to critically appraise data and summarise succinctly
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anna Bischler
- Job title
- Associate Director, Medicines Use and Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07912 488 203
- Additional information
Yuet Wan
02071883853
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