Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular (Cardiology - Community)
Band 8a
Main area: Pharmacy Grade Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week (including weekend working and bank holidays as rostered)
Job ref: 196-LIS9435
Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 p.a inclusive of HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 25/04/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Job overview: To support leading, delivering, developing and evaluating clinical pharmacy services to patients in cardiovascular in accordance with the objectives set between the Specialty Clinical Lead, Directorate General Manager and Principal Pharmacist Cardiovascular. To be a role model in the field of cardiovascular and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for patients in line with GSTT corporate objectives.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the team, you will support the delivery of clinical services to patients with cardiovascular disease. See JD and PS for further details.
Working for our organisation
The cardiovascular services at our foundation trust are one of the largest and most comprehensive in the UK. We are looking for an experienced and committed clinical pharmacist to deliver clinical pharmacy services to our directorates. Essentially you should be able to demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients with cardiovascular diseases. See JD and PS for further details.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorates targets. This will include delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a range of patients with cardiovascular conditions, supporting and training junior pharmacists, whilst also maintaining and developing the services further both within the primary and secondary care. This post may require cross site working across our partner organisations.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
* Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
* Successfully completed an approved course for non-medical prescriber
* Registration with GPhC
* Registered with the appropriate healthcare regulator as a non-medical prescriber
* RPS Faculty Membership
Skills
* Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in acute and/or specialist medicine
* Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine patients
* Deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
* Identify and promote best practice
* Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
* Motivate and inspire others
* Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
* Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 3 environment
* Clinical experience in the community setting
* Demonstrate innovation
* Extend the boundaries of the profession
* Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level
Experience
* To have managed an area of clinical pharmacy services
* Identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
* Ensure national and local agendas are delivered
* Establish processes for the setting of standards of care
* Identify and manage changes that need to occur to achieve these
* Identify and manage the risks involved
* Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
* To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
* To identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget
* To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
* Have managed clinical pharmacy services in cardiovascular
* Reconcile national priorities with local realities
* Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
* To promote Improvements in Working Lives
* To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
* To demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders and the profession
Skills
* To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
* Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
* Provide education and training to pharmacy and other staff
* Evaluate the training provided
* Participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
* Identify own training needs
* Actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
* Maintain a portfolio of practice
* To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a teaching component, or equivalent evidence of teaching experience
* To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
* Develop strategies to meet the training needs of staff
* Previous experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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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.
Name: Anoushka Jiwa
Job title: Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular
Email address: anoushka.jiwa@gstt.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07749400380
Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.
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