09 Oct
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
London
Job description
Job summary
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence.
You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledge of the medicines optimisation agenda.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide, at highly specialist level,
clinical pharmacy services to paediatrics and maternity and will be responsible for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, clinical governance and adherence to trust policies and guidelines concerning medicines use.
The post holder will have designated areas of responsibility, which will vary from time to time according to the needs of the service and projects that require to be delivered including :
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate pharmacy dispensary services provision to the Trust. To provide professional leadership to the dispensary-based pharmacists.
It is expected that the management of dispensary services will account for around 20-30% of the post holder's time including daily presence in the dispensary.
It is expected that the post holder's contribution to the service will result in an improvement of dispensary KPIs.
About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden,
Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level.
Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Lead the pharmacy services to paediatrics and maternity.
Lead the dispensary pharmacy services.
Provide a high level of expert clinical pharmacy input as part of the multidisciplinary team within paediatric and obstetric medicine to improve and enhance the quality of patient care.
To provide pharmaceutical support and advice to paediatric and maternity inpatients and outpatients.
To act as the line manager for the paediatric and maternity specialist clinical pharmacists and the chief technician, dispensary.
To co-ordinate and deliver on clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines management and use within the area of paediatric and maternity medicine.
Manage and develop staff assigned to dispensary and monitor their performance using Trust policies and procedures and local guidelines for performance reviews and that staff motivation and direction are given through appraisal, general communication and specific feedback.
To undertake performance review for all staff managed by this post and report to the Chief Pharmacist.
Person Specification
ATTRIBUTES / SKILLS
Essential
- BPharm / MPharm or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
Independent Prescriber
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to critically review services and processes
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy may be contentious or complex
- Ability to innovate and implement change
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate knowledge and application of pharmacy related national and legal requirements
- Ability to lead the service
- Ability to motivate, influence and persuade staff, build team
- Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
- Ability to resolve conflict and deal with complaints
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
Experience
Essential
- Significant years post-registration experience
- Relevant hospital pharmacy experience
- Managing dispensary
- Management experience
- Leading and Implementing change
- Performance management and audit experience
- Project management experience
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Recent Clinical Pharmacy / Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Understanding of Formulary & Drug Usage Review and clinical trial issues
- Understanding of risk management issues within pharmacy and in healthcare service
- Ability to manage out of specification results, review them and develop action plans to resolve them
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively
- Assertive and diplomatic
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Shows empathy towards patients / carers
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiastic, self-motivating, hardworking and conscientious
Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities