Highly Specialist Cardiac (Critical Care) Pharmacist
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic senior clinical pharmacist to join the cardiac team at Barts Heart Centre, part of Barts Health NHS Trust. This is an exceptional career opportunity for a high calibre pharmacist with vision, excellent organisation and leadership skills looking to develop their career, both clinically and professionally.
Barts Heart Centre is one of the country's leading cardiac centres and the largest of its kind in Europe. We treat patients from across the UK for a wide range of complex conditions including coronary heart disease, arrhythmias and heart failure. Our expanding critical care service includes management of post-operative cardiothoracic surgical patients, as well as an ECMO service.
The post holder will work closely with medical and nursing staff to ensure the continued provision and development of high quality, comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to patients, influencing change at a divisional level, as well as managing junior pharmacy team members. Contribution to the research agenda working with staff across the Pharmacy departments and supervising student placements will also be integral to this role.
The successful applicant will be expected to be a team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Experience in cardiology, as well as the management of level 2 or 3 critical care patients is essential, along with a clear vision of the future of clinical pharmacy within the specialty.
Main duties of the job
To support the Lead Pharmacist for Critical Care and Theatres in providing responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing within the networks to:
1. Help to deliver the broader medicines optimisation and governance strategy across the Trust. These outcomes will be achieved primarily through leadership of clinical staff, and the publication and implementation of guidelines and procedures to encourage best practice.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job 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.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Person Specification
Experience
* Significant experience of working as a registered clinical pharmacy practitioner in an acute hospital NHS setting.
* Appropriate experience in providing a hospital-based pharmacy service within cardiac services, including experience managing level 2 or level 3 patients.
* Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
* Ability to undertake and facilitate quality improvement, reflective practice, teaching and CPD.
* Experience appraising staff and giving feedback.
* Experience of leading and supervising research, quality improvement or audit projects.
* Experience in local implementation of national standards and guidelines.
* Experience of providing hospital-based clinical service within cardiac services at Band 7 level or equivalent.
* Clinical experience in critical care.
* Operational management experience in a complex environment.
* Experience of successfully leading and implementing service improvement and change projects.
* Experience of managing staff.
* Experience of managing a budget.
Skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail.
* Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure.
* Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations.
* Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others.
* Effective problem-solving skills.
* Excellent clinical and managerial critical appraisal skills enabling effective decision making relating to the adoption of new therapies.
* IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes.
* Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
* Good analytical & organisational ability.
* Management of risk in the clinical use of medicines.
* Demonstrates strong leadership skills.
* Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training.
Knowledge
* Sound knowledge of drugs and therapeutics in cardiology at Diploma level or equivalent.
* Thorough understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk management.
* Knowledge and awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to cardiology.
* Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements.
* Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation.
* Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives.
* Knowledge of the medication issues at the interface of primary and secondary care. Awareness of wider NHS policies, e.g. Long Term Plan.
* Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work.
* Understanding of stock control systems.
* Able to demonstrate a good understanding of patient safety initiatives.
* Knowledge of rationing decisions in the NHS, Payment by Results (PbR) and commissioning.
Qualifications
* MPharm or equivalent.
* Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC.
* Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum postgraduate diploma level).
* Independent prescribing qualification, or willing to undergo training to become an IP.
* MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
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.
Lead Pharmacist Critical Care and Theatres
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