Current vacancies
Site: University College London Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59
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Job overview
We are looking for bright and enthusiastic pharmacists, with the motivation to develop their clinical knowledge and skills in practice, to join our development programme for clinical pharmacists.
The programme includes year-long rotations through areas such as acute medicine, elderly care and long-term conditions, gastroenterology, critical care, urology, thoracic surgery, neurosciences, hyperacute stroke, HIV and sexual health, and women’s health including neonates.
Your principal job role will focus on direct patient care, applying your therapeutics knowledge and skills to ensure that all our patients receive safe and effective medication throughout their time with the Trust, as both an inpatient and outpatient. You will use your excellent analytical skills to gather and process relevant information held within our new electronic health records system, Epic, to achieve optimal outcomes.
Main duties of the job
You will also be introduced to core directorate activities such as reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure, budget planning for tariff-excluded high cost drugs, project management, clinical governance activities, and more general management and leadership roles.
With a broad base of general and specific clinical experience, along with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, you will also contribute towards the clinical supervision of multi-professional undergraduate students and the mentorship of pre-registration and postgraduate diploma students. You will also provide support for the implementation of general clinical pharmacy initiatives, and participate in audit and clinical research projects.
Interview date: One week after closing date
Working for our organisation
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.
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
Detailed job description and main 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
* Completion of a Master’s degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
* Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* A minimum of two-and-a-half years post-registration experience in pharmacy
* Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, or satisfactory evidence of equivalent competence, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio
Management & leadership skills
* Ability to evaluate quality of own work
Clinical & interpersonal skills
* Demonstrable participation in clinical audit
* Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit
* Previous experience of delivering educational material to junior colleagues
* Identifies own training needs
* Previous experience in delivering education and training within pharmacy
* Implements the findings of pharmacy practice research
* Maintains a portfolio of practice
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
For further information please contact:
- Robin Offord – Deputy Chief Pharmacist – Clinical Pharmacy Services
robin.offord@nhs.net or via Microsoft Teams
or
- Sejal Amin – Deputy Director of Clinical Pharmacy
sejal.amin2@nhs.net or via Microsoft Teams
For further details and how to apply, please visit www.uclh.nhs.uk
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