Band 8A
Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: Band 8A
Contract: Secondment: 12 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Including out of hours and seven day working)
Job ref: 213-CAY-6594756
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £58,698 - £65,095 Per annum including HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/09/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,500 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated Senior Pharmacist to join the Liver Pharmacy Team at Kings College Hospital as 9-12 month maternity leave cover. The Liver Unit at King’s College Hospital is a world-renowned tertiary referral centre for liver transplantation, complex hepatology, viral hepatitis, hepatobiliary surgery and liver intensive care.
The post holder deputises for the team leader, Liver and Private Patient Services, and acts as the lead for Liver Transplant Services. As well as providing a highly specialised pharmacy service to the in-patient liver wards and liver theatres, the post holder will also actively participate in pharmacist led outpatient clinics. Excellent communication skills are required as the post holder is expected to provide specialist pharmacy advice to primary and secondary care healthcare professionals and patients.
Main duties of the job
- Deputise for the Principal Pharmacist, Hepatology
- Act as a specialist role model and an expert in the medical management within the hepatology care group
- Lead and manage clinical pharmacy services in the hepatology Care Group in conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist.
- Develop and participate in outpatient clinics to deliver and promote high quality, cost-effective and patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
- Act as a pharmacist independent prescriber to optimise the care of patients within the hepatology Care Group.
- Actively participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds, delivering and promoting high quality, cost effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
- Promote safe drug use within the Hepatology Care Group specialties.
- Work with the Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services to develop, manage and support non-medical prescribing within pharmacy and the Trust.
- Provide specialist pharmacist input into the Trust Non-Medical Prescribing Group (NMPG) including the management of Patient Group Directions and Written Instructions.
- Development, implementation and audit of local guidelines.
- Supervise and train pharmacy staff at ward level.
- Provide education and training of healthcare professionals within and outside the Trust.
- Financial reporting, drug usage and expenditure forecasting, drug budget management and work on CIPs (cost improvement programmes).
- Participate in practice and clinical research and audit.
Person specification
Knowledge, skills and experience
- MPharm (Masters Degree)
- Registered Pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council)
- Postgraduate Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent qualification / experience
- Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice
- Experience of working with senior healthcare professionals outside of pharmacy
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of protocol/guideline development
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Ability to provide highly complex Information on medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor level)
- Able to implement and manage change
- Ability to work well under pressure by prioritising and managing time effectively
- Registered independent prescriber or willingness to complete
- Problem-solving skills
- Able to motivate self and others
- Able to influence junior medical staff, the multidisciplinary team
- Member of the RPS faculty
- Demonstration of advanced practice using evidence mapped to the RPS Advanced Practice Framework
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- Please provide email addresses for referees where possible.
- Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy.
- All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
- Due to a high volume of applications, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. It is therefore recommended that you apply promptly.
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.
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