Senior Cardiology Pharmacist - Heart Failure and ICC
Closed for applications on: 23-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 23-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Address
- Sydney Street
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SW3 6NP
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend rota and on-call commitments)
Salary
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 p.a inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (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
This is an exciting role in which you will deliver, develop and evaluate our clinical pharmacy service to cardiology patients including those with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. The post holder will also lead our clinical pharmacy service to patients with heart failure (HF) and inherited cardiac conditions (ICC) across Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals which will include the delivery and development of pharmacist-led heart failure clinics. The expectation is that the appointed pharmacist will be a role model in the field of cardiology and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for patients in line with GSTT corporate objectives.
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The post holder will be responsible for the service provision across the following domains:
Clinical Practice
To act as a clinical role model for pharmacists involved in the care of cardiology patients including those with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients. To deliver and develop pharmacist-led heart failure clinics and work with the ICC team to support the introduction of new specialist drugs.
Leadership
To lead our clinical pharmacy service to patients with heart failure and inherited cardiac conditions across Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals in accordance with priorities set by the post holder, lead heart failure consultant, lead ICC consultant and lead cardiology pharmacist, in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
Evaluation of Service
To monitor clinical pharmacy services to cardiology patients including those with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension in accordance with the priorities set by the post holder, lead heart failure consultant, lead ICC consultant, lead cardiology pharmacist and general manager/clinical director in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
Please refer to the job description for the full list of duties
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 provide safe, clinically effective and patient-focused care for cardiology patients, including those with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. To support the development of guidelines and protocols, monitor drug expenditure, manage medicines related risk, provide education and training and undertake practice research.
To work collaboratively with senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary teams and management and to participate in the development of pharmacy services in accordance with the agreed objectives.
See Job Description and personal specification for further details.
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
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm degree
- Registration with GPhC
- Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Desirable criteria
- RPS membership / RPS Faculty Membership
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in cardiology patients
- Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine 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
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 3 environment
- Demonstrate innovation
- Extend the boundaries of the profession
- Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
- Have managed clinical pharmacy services in cardiology
- Reconcile national priorities with local realities
- Work across traditional boundaries
- 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
Skills (Research)
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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 to cardiovascular
- Undertake own research
- Guide and support others undertaking research
- Co-ordinate the undergraduate and preregistration student clinical activity
Skills (Education and Training)
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carol Hayes
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist - Cardiology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07779 910540
- Additional information
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