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- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Paediatrics
Accepting applications until: 20-Jul-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 20-Jul-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Pharmacy - Paediatric Services
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 1 permanent and 1 x 9 month fixed term
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
Salary
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 p.a inc. of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
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
To deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services to paediatric services at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital in accordance with the objectives set by the Lead Pharmacists. To act as a role model in the paediatric pharmacy field and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for paediatric areas in line with placement site corporate objectives and NHS Plan. There are a number of rotations available, including, cardiology, renal, neurology, respiratory, metabolic, general paediatrics, PICU and surgery. The rotations may be cross site between the Royal Brompton and the Evelina Children's Hospital sites.
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To deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services to different clinical areas within the Royal Brompton and Evelina London Children’s Hospital and to act as a role model in the paediatric pharmacy field and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for paediatric areas in line with placement site corporate objectives and NHS Plan.
Working for our organisation
Evelina London Children's Hospital is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
We provide hospital care and treatment at both our purpose-built children’s hospital on the St Thomas’ Hospital site and at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital. We care for families in our local areas and provide an extensive range of specialist services for children with rare and complex conditions from across south London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
The Evelina Children's Hospital site
Based in a stunning purpose-built building at St Thomas', our hospital includes:
- 151 inpatient beds, including 30 intensive care beds
- 52-cot neonatal unit
- 5 operating theatres, plus 1 cardiac theatre in East Wing, St Thomas'
- a full children's imaging service with MRI scanner, x-ray and ultrasound
- a kidney dialysis unit
- an outpatients department and a medical day care unit
- a hospital school
- a day surgery unit
This hospital includes its own stand alone dispensary and pharmaceutical services.
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals sites
Provide specialist children’s services for heart and lung conditions at Royal Brompton Hospital and children’s heart and lung outpatient services at Harefield Hospital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Leadership
To assist in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to Children’s Services in accordance with the priorities set by the Lead Pharmacists in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
2. Management of Service
To provide clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to Children’s Services in accordance with the priorities set by the post holder, and Lead Pharmacists in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
3. Evaluation of Service
To contribute to monitoring of clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to Children’s Services in accordance with the objectives set by the post holder and Lead Pharmacists in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of drugs in these patients.
4. Clinical Practice
To act as a clinical role model for paediatric pharmacists and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients
5. Research and Development
To develop clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted in Children’s Services in accordance with the objectives set by the post holder and Lead Pharmacists in order to advance the safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
6. Education and Training
To participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
To identify own training needs
To actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
To maintain a portfolio of practice
7. To maintain a Broad Level of Pharmacy Practice
To participate in other areas of clinical pharmacy practice in order to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge
To undertake duties over the weekend and bank holidays and be involved in 7 day a week working .
To participate in the paediatric back-up service
To liaise with other clinical pharmacists to ensure efficient transfer of drug related care.
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
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience in paediatric medicine and surgery
- Previous experience in delivering training and education
- Experience of multidisciplinary health services working
- Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in obstetrics and neonatology
- Previous experience in delivering training and education at undergraduate or post graduate level
- Demonstration of active participation in multi-disciplinary health care research
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Previous experience of using electronic prescribing software
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in Pharmacy
- Pre-registration training
- Specialist pharmacy knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent training or experience
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescribing qualification.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Meets set targets and expected levels of practice as defined by others
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
- The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work
- Understanding of national and local priorities
- The ability to identify and manage risks
- Can work autonomously
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Demonstrates competent level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
- Integrates research evidence into practice
- Ensures ward pharmacists training needs are identified and met and evaluates service provision
- Identifies own training needs and maintains a portfolio of practice
Desirable criteria
- Identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services to the Medical/Surgical Specialities
- Identifies and implements best practice and demonstrates innovation
- Demonstrated ability to influence practice at a directorate level
- Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstration of the ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities
- Demonstrates ability to implement risk management procedures
- Can delegate authority appropriately
- Manages difficult and ambiguous problems and tolerates uncertainty
- Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focussed approach
- Undertakes own research
- Evaluates the training provided and actively seeks novel opportunities to meet training needs
- Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- William Thornhill
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071885049
- Additional information
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Clinical Lead Pharmacist - Medicines & Neonates
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