Principal Clinical Pharmacist - Renal Critical Care
Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge? Do you want to diversify your skill set and develop your career? Are you ready to accept a new role which will expand both your clinical and leadership potential?
Our innovative clinical pharmacy team are looking for a self-motivated clinical pharmacist to join us to lead our intensive care service. You will work closely with our critical care teams and lead clinical pharmacists to develop and deliver pharmaceutical services to our intensive care patients in both an inpatient and outpatient setting as well as link with our other site at Queen Mary's, Sidcup.
We will support specialist training through tertiary centres for this position (if required).
A relocation package is available for those relocating to Dartford for this role. Please contact us to discuss the relocation package applicable to you.
Main duties of the job
You will have a daily clinical commitment working with our dedicated medicine management trained and accuracy checking technicians who are fully integrated into the dispensary and ward service providing a full team approach to support near-patient pharmaceutical care on the wards. You will provide clinical leadership as the lead critical care pharmacist, training and developing others.
Applicants should have an interest in intensive care services or critical care and be willing to work towards (if not already achieved) an independent prescribing qualification.
This post gives the opportunity to utilise an independent prescribing qualification and we will support you as you enhance and expand your intensive care knowledge. Previous hospital pharmacy experience is essential.
Job responsibilities
1. General responsibilities
2. Clinical Responsibilities
3. Managerial responsibilities
4. Professional responsibilities
5. Education and development responsibilities
In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, please see the detailed job description and person specification for further information.
Person Specification
Education and Training
* GPhC registration as a pharmacist; Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent; Independent prescriber (or working towards)
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society; Management and leadership qualification; MSc or equivalent postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or other appropriate discipline; Practice Supervisor Accreditation or equivalent teaching accreditation
Knowledge and Skills
* Broad pharmaceutical knowledge relating to general medicine and core medical specialities
* Demonstrates knowledge of national and local guidelines relating to specialism that need to be adhered to
* Advanced computer literacy including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
* Budgetary control skills
* Awareness of current practice and policy affecting pharmacy practice in the NHS & understanding the NHS structure
* JAC computer skills
* Incident investigation/ root cause analysis
* Risk management
* Experience and knowledge of respiratory medication use
Experience
* Experience working as a band 7 Pharmacist
* Experience of writing protocols and standards
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary clinical pharmacy setting
* Previous teaching/tutoring experience
* Hospital Pharmacy Experience
* Clinical Pharmacy teaching skills
* Demonstrable use of audit/research to improve practice
Personal Attributes
* Polite but assertive
* Can cope with emotive patient issues
* Organised
* Reliable
* Approachable
* Caring
* Self-motivated and ability to motivate others
* Ability to work well on own initiative
* Committed to high standard of patient care
* Enthusiastic
* Willingness to seek and find new solutions to problems
* Good communication skills
* Effective team player
* Good organisational skills
* Ability to plan and prioritise work effectively to meet deadlines
* Able to make decisions
* Can concentrate for frequent intense periods
* Commitment to CPD
* Ability to cope with the pressures of a busy hospital pharmacy service
* Maintains a portfolio of 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.
£55,877 to £62,626 a year incl HCAS per annum
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