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Band 8a
Main area: General Medicines
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 271-MTT-6553437-A
Site: Great Ormond Street Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic experienced pharmacist to further advance their career by joining the General Medicine Pharmacy team at Great Ormond Street Hospital as a Senior Specialist Pharmacist within International Private Patients.
You will have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, alongside clinical knowledge, and the ability to work within a team. You will play an active role in ensuring adherence to standards, promoting patient safety, and helping to support medicines management within International Private Patients.
You will be part of an expert multidisciplinary team contributing to the safe and pharmaceutically appropriate clinical service to children within General medicines and Surgery.
You will be supported by our experienced and friendly Consultants, Registrars, Specialist Nurses and Pharmacy team.
You must have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and be a self-starter. Experience working within paediatrics including delivering a ward-based pharmacist role. The team of pharmacists you will join are experienced and extremely supportive.
Main duties of the job
* To deliver a clinical ward-based pharmacy service to the inpatients and day units.
* To liaise with the consultants and senior nursing staff to deliver and promote high quality, cost effective and patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
* To prepare new drug submissions and prescribing guidelines for the Drug & Therapeutics Committee taking into account all relevant local and national policies and procedures. This also includes implementing, monitoring and updating current prescribing guidelines.
* To lead, support and develop junior pharmacists and foundation pharmacists in their clinical rotations.
* To participate in the induction of staff. This includes induction of resident pharmacists to ensure familiarity and understanding of policies/procedures and dispensing practices during out of hours.
* To support the pharmacists working within the CIVAS unit with prescription screening.
* To participate in departmental and multidisciplinary audit/research activities, to ensure that cost-improvement and quality targets are met.
* To attend Departmental meetings, communicate information, keep one’s self informed and maintain an active CPD portfolio.
Working for our organisation
GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.
We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.
We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.
We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women’s staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust’s mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
GOSH Culture and Values
* Our Always values
* Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
* Registered non-medical prescriber
* Member of a Professional Body (i.e. Royal Pharmaceutical Society)
Experience/Knowledge
* Use of medicines in specialist area of paediatrics
* Multidisciplinary working
* Experience as tutor/supervisor for pharmacists undertaking postgraduate courses or pre-registration pharmacists
* Policy and service development
* Project management
* An understanding of the pharmaceutical issues of the specialist areas of General Medicines and Surgery
Skills/Abilities
* Good verbal, written communication and organisational skills
* Time management, problem solving
* Training and supervising staff
* Ability to lead and motivate a team
* Accountability - Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working
* Excellent presentation skills
* Mutual respect - Treats others with courtesy and respect at all time
Please be advised that:
The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.
The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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