Specialist Pharmacy Technician, Sickle Cell | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,471 - £50,364 pa inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, W12 0HS |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6250089/290-SCCS-1392 |
Summary
A unique opportunity to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a Specialist Sickle Cell Pharmacist to enhance and improve community and emergency services for sickle cell patients.
NHS England has funded Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to function as one of four pilot ‘hyper-acute units’ across London over the next two years, with the aim of helping sickle cell patients gain direct access to specialist care that will enable prompt pain relief during painful crisis. The unit will be pivotal in supporting the emergency pathway for our specialist patients, ensuring their complex healthcare needs are met within a responsive framework that improves overall patient experience. This is an opportunity to lead and develop clinically focused pharmaceutical services to the "hyper-acute" unit and support community services to increase the level of support and care provided to sickle cell patients.
• To lead in the provision of a high quality patient focused medicines management service to patients with sickle cell disease.
• To work collaboratively with the sickle cell multi-disciplinary team in primary and secondary care to review and evaluate services, and identify and promote best practice.
• To support the continuing drive to improve medicines use and safety for sickle cell patients in primary and secondary care.
• To improve continuity of care for sickle cell patients between primary and secondary care.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024