19 Oct
Division of Surgery – BHRUT NHS
Romford
Job description
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 8a registered pharmacist looking to further their career. You will be working three sessions (1.
5 days) per week at Saint Francis Hospice and three sessions (1.5 days) a week at BHRUT Hospitals. This is a unique opportunity to provide care and to develop services working in an acute and intermediate care interface.
You will work with the Lead Pharmacist, to provide clinical pharmacy services to our patients requiring palliative care at BHRUT Hospitals and St Francis Hospice.
The hospice enjoys close supportive links with BHRUT, and the post holder will be appointed under an NHS Contract (under BHRUT)
with supportive relationship with the Pharmacy team at the Trust but will be seconded for all work sessions to the hospice.
Saint Francis Hospice is a dynamic, forward-thinking organization delivering a full range of specialist palliative care services for all patients with life-limiting illness.
The hospice supports five Clinical Commissioning Groups and has a robust Governance Structure in place. We achieved Outstanding’ in our CQC inspection in April 2016.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as lead pharmacist for palliative care services for the Hospice and BHRUT.The post holder will be based at Queens Hospital 1.
5 days a week and at Saint Francis Hospice 1.5 days a week.
The post holder will be responsible for providing and developing comprehensive, patient orientated pharmacy advice and support services at ward level for Queens Hospital and Saint Francis Hospice.
The post holder will support community facing hospice staff, particularly the Specialist Community Crisis and Support (SCCS) staff.
The SCCS team includes doctors and Clinical Nurse Specialist Non-Medical Prescribers.
The post holder will also be responsible for providing specialist palliative care pharmaceutical advice at the Hospice and Home nurse / HCA team, in their provision and support to people at home.
The post holder will facilitate good supportive relationships with BHR / SW Essex Community pharmacy services and BHR / SW Essex pharmacy leads, also NELFT Community services pharmacy leads.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E; performance in 2023 / 24;
we’re no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.
Many of our 8,000 staff who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups.
More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es; in 2023.
Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams.
It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application.
As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute hospital Trusts in England serving a richly diverse population of over 750,000.
We deliver our services across three main sites at Barking, Queen’s and King George Hospitals.
Our main sites, Queen’s Hospital in Romford and King George Hospital in Goodmayes are in excellent locations less than 30 minutes from central London.
Saint Francis Hospice is continually adapting and reconfiguring its services to meet the changing needs of our local community.
The Inpatient Unit has undergone a comprehensive review of staff establishment to support our patients’ increasing complexity and the specialist needs of our younger patients.
Our driving aim is to be able to support our patients in what matters to them’ on a day-to-day basis and we are incredibly flexible.
We provide Inpatient clinical services within a modern, personal and friendly 18-bedded unit, as well as Specialist Community and Crisis Support Service,
Hospice at Home and also Specialist Day Therapy Services provided at Pemberton Place.
Alongside these clinical services we have the Pepperell Education Centre which has an excellent reputation for delivering high quality education and study days.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice / Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent qualification)
Desirable criteria
Independent prescribing qualification
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
Good organisational and time management skills and meeting set targets and deadlines
Experience / Knowledge
Essential criteria
Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in developing training within palliative care.
- Change management experience and direct involvement of redesign within a service, including promoting evidence based practice
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.
▶️ a Specialist Palliative Care Clinical Pharmacist
🖊️ Division of Surgery – BHRUT NHS
📍 Romford