Senior Clinical Pharmacist | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 pa inc HCAS Outer London |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stanmore, London, HA7 4LP |
| Company: | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6236937/392-RNOH-567-F |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our department as a band 7 pharmacist to develop your clinical, leadership, research and managerial skills. We support our staff to complete a postgraduate diploma and/ or independent prescribing whilst developing the necessary skillset to grow into a senior pharmacist.
The post holder will join a team of specialist and generalist clinical pharmacists, medicines optimisation technicians and pharmacy assistants in delivering high quality, safe and effective care to patients and service users. You will undertake ward based clinical pharmacy activities in addition to six monthly specialist rotations. These areas include and are not limited to: medicines safety, pre-assessment, drugs and therapeutic committee, spinal rehabilitation medicine, acute pain, chronic pain clinics, clinical trials and research, metabolic bone disease and rheumatology, homecare, complex long-term bone and soft-tissue infection management as well as post-operative care and high dependency/critical care.
This is a full time role entailing 37.5 hours per week and includes weekend and on-call commitment on a rota basis.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, forward thinking and pro-active clinically orientated pharmacist to join our progressive team at RNOH. There is extensive scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities, contributing towards portfolio building and the opportunity for further roles in the future.
The role enables individuals to take on more responsibility whilst starting to build on leadership and management skills to prepare for specialist or senior roles. The post holder will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. Computer skills are essential. Ideally, the post holder should have previous NHS experience and be working towards or completed a clinical pharmacy diploma.
The RNOH is a national centre of excellence with an international reputation for diagnosis, assessment and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.
It is an exciting time to join our department as we implemented ePMA in the Trust in Autumn 2022. Alongside the expansion to the theatre facilities, there are ever growing opportunities to contribute to medicines optimisation. Our pharmacy dispensary has recently been relocated to an innovative and purpose built area which also has dedicated office workspace and improved facilities for staff training, research, staff rest areas and dedicated patient consultation and waiting areas.
Research and ongoing development is highly encouraged within the department and the Trust. We actively promote publication of research and involvement at external conferences; this includes regular submissions of posters and presentations at conferences nationally and internationally. Our department profile includes a UKCPA award-winning poster, publishing in peer reviewed journals and presentations at the UKCPA, Oxford Bone Infection, and National Orthopaedic Alliance Conferences.
Other examples of the department’s innovation and achievement projects include creation of the medicines safety dashboard and monthly bulletin, pharmacist led opioid deprescribing clinics and contribution to developing national guidelines such as UKCPA & CPOC.
• To contribute to the Trust medicines optimisation agenda to ensure delivery of a safe, clinically and cost effective pharmacy service
• To review local policies and guidelines on good prescribing practice
• To ensure that service provision is flexible and responsive to patient’s needs
• To be an educational supervisor to pre-registration pharmacists
• To mentor and support junior members of staff
• To contribute to the education and training programme for all pharmacy and clinical staff
• To work closely with the wider MDT in the Trust and provide medicines expertise
• To meet the department and Trust’s audit agenda and quality improvement objectives
• Critical evaluation of medicines expenditure and financial reporting
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
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