Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Virtual Wards/Integrated Care Operations
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist with excellent clinical and interpersonal skills to lead and deliver a high-quality service to the Integrated Care Operations (ICO) service at University College London Hospital (UCLH).
The ICO oversees a range of services focused around safe and efficient transfers of care. These include:
UCLH@Home, which provides a home nursing service to enable safe transfer home for patients under the management of a UCLH Consultant.
The Integrated Discharge Service (IDS), which in close collaboration with North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Services, provides an Admission Avoidance service to the Emergency Department through pathways such as Camden and Islington Virtual Wards and other bespoke services including the Camden Adult Pathway partnership (CAPP), a Homeless Intermediate Care service, and a Rough Sleeper Nurse working with the Camden Street teams.
The post holder will work as part of the Medicine and Emergency Services pharmacy team to deliver pharmacy services and safe transfer of care between the ICO and other NCL Integrated Discharge Services.
Main duties of the job
Duties will include coordination of and participation in the day-to-day clinical pharmacy service to the ICO services team and attendance at relevant huddles and handover meetings. You will also work with the ICO services team on projects to develop, implement, maintain and improve new services.
You will use your independent prescribing skills to optimise medication regimens in preparation for discharge and act as a point of contact for staff and patients with queries relating to their medicines.
As part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will contribute to audits, service development, and quality improvement projects to existing systems and processes.
Additional management and leadership responsibilities for the ICO and ESD will include governance, medicines expenditure analysis and reporting, audits, and service evaluation, as well as MDT education and training.
Within the pharmacy department, you will contribute to local and national pharmacy-specific initiatives and support the delivery of educational and developmental programmes.
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications, knowledge & competence
* Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
* Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Minimum of three years' experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner
* Six years post-registration with the GPhC
* Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
* Independent prescriber registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Management & leadership skills
* Able to evaluate the quality of own work and that of junior colleagues
* Identifies personal development needs and those of junior colleagues
Clinical & interpersonal skills
* Able to identify and undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects
* Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
* Previous experience of delivering educational material within pharmacy
* Identifies own training needs
* Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
* Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
* Maintains a portfolio of practice
* Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
* Integrates research evidence into practice
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.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
309-UCLH-4953-A
Job locations
University College London Hospitals (various sites)
£61,927 to £68,676 a year inclusive of HCAS
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