Band 8a Acute & Emergency Department Pharmacist
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team on a 1 year Fixed Term basis. The post holder will be responsible for providing a clinical pharmacist service within Acute and Emergency Care and critically will be working not just at the 'front door' but across a number of specialities and with our other system partners in the Emergency Care Pathway.
You will work alongside Consultants and senior nurses to deliver a high quality, patient focused service starting at the very beginning of a patient's hospital journey ensuring that medicines are optimised, readily accessible and managed effectively at all stages as the patient moves through the Emergency Care and Acute Medicine system. You will play an active role in improving patient care and experience, ensuring adherence to standards, promoting patient safety and driving a 'right first time' culture.
You must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council with relevant post registration hospital experience. Previous experience of Acute and Emergency Care services and having an Independent Prescribing qualification would be an advantage.
This role is an ideal opportunity to build on your clinical experience and develop your management, leadership, negotiating and teaching skills.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for providing, developing and monitoring medicines optimization processes that promote safe, effective and timely use of medicines in the Acute and Emergency Medicine Departments at King Georges and Queen's Hospital (QH). The postholder will be mainly based at QH and provide support as required to the KGH site.
They will assist the Chief Pharmacist and other senior pharmacy managers in making the case to expand the provision of pharmacy services to the Emergency Departments to ensure suitable quality assurance, clinical governance and risk management of medicines in support of Trust targets and national requirements. The postholder will provide training to doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals in Acute and Emergency Medicine as well as pharmacy staff.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Job 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.
Applications should be made online; however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5926. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
* MPharm or equivalent Degree in Pharmacy approved by General Pharmaceutical Council.
Experience/ Knowledge
* Appropriate post registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy practice
* Previous experience of working in the Emergency Department/Emergency Care Pathway
* Experience of project and change management
Skills/ Abilities
* Demonstrates an advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and able to deal with difficult and/or ambiguous problems
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Lead Pharmacist Acute and Emergency Medicine
£59,490 to £66,239 a year per annum inclusive
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