Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist -Critical Care and Formulary
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 per annum including HCAS Outer London |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6306435/393-NMUH-1227-B |
Summary
A Vacancy at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
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 with efficient, safe and compassionate care. 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.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacist with vision and leadership skills to join the Trust as part of the Critical Care team and lead on the trust formulary.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced, capable with teaching and clinical skills. They will have good interpersonal, leadership and managerial skills. You should possess a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent; have hospital pharmacy experience in critical care.
• To manage, deliver, develop and monitor the pharmacy critical care service in the Trust working along side the wider MDT.
• To develop and maintain the web based hospital formulary, netFormulary in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines information
• To provide training in critical care skills to clinical staff.
• To act as a trainee pharmacist tutor/ diploma mentor when requested by the E&T Lead.
• To co-ordinate and contribute to writing/checking pharmacy information bulletins.
• To be responsible for providing a highly specialist service to critical care by ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety/ governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines.
• Be responsible for advising in this area, managing drug budget and for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service provided to this area.
• Provide a regular ward pharmacy commitment and provide a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services including training and implementation of relevant policies and risk management initiatives.
• Provide support as requested to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicines management programme.
• Regularly lead on / initiates / contributes to relevant practice research or audit projects within the Pharmacy and to publish the results of such work, as appropriate.
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024
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 with efficient, safe and compassionate care. 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.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacist with vision and leadership skills to join the Trust as part of the Critical Care team and lead on the trust formulary.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced, capable with teaching and clinical skills. They will have good interpersonal, leadership and managerial skills. You should possess a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent; have hospital pharmacy experience in critical care.
• To manage, deliver, develop and monitor the pharmacy critical care service in the Trust working along side the wider MDT.
• To develop and maintain the web based hospital formulary, netFormulary in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines information
• To provide training in critical care skills to clinical staff.
• To act as a trainee pharmacist tutor/ diploma mentor when requested by the E&T Lead.
• To co-ordinate and contribute to writing/checking pharmacy information bulletins.
• To be responsible for providing a highly specialist service to critical care by ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety/ governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines.
• Be responsible for advising in this area, managing drug budget and for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service provided to this area.
• Provide a regular ward pharmacy commitment and provide a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services including training and implementation of relevant policies and risk management initiatives.
• Provide support as requested to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicines management programme.
• Regularly lead on / initiates / contributes to relevant practice research or audit projects within the Pharmacy and to publish the results of such work, as appropriate.
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024
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