Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1362
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Rotational Pharmacist
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Fast forward your pharmacy career at Imperial. With five world-renowned hospitals, we have an opportunity for a Band 7 specialist rotational pharmacist. You will have the opportunity to work across various specialty rotations within the Medicine & Surgery Divisions, delivering education and training and also gain experience in directorate work including management of high cost medicines, new drugs applications, guideline review and drug expenditure reporting. We very much see our rotation programme as designed to equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence for a future specialist clinical pharmacist role.
At Imperial you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people. You’ll be working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant pharmacy team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
You will be self-motivated and organised with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will need to be able to develop effective working relationships with a wide range of professionals. You will need good IT skills and be able to work with many different IT programs & databases.
Applicants should be a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. You should have completed up to 18 months of a postgraduate clinical pharmacy diploma and working towards full diploma or equivalent experiential learning.
Main duties of the job
· To ensure the safe, clinically effective & cost efficient use of medicines within each rotation.
· To improve the quality of pharmaceutical care to patients.
· To gain knowledge & experience in the medical and/or surgical management for common diseases in each rotation.
· To gain experience of the funding and monitoring of high cost drugs
· To support & develop pre-registration pharmacists, Band 6 pharmacists & medicines management pharmacy technicians as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main 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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Certificate in Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent relevant postgraduate experience & studying for completion of full Diploma
- Undertakes continuing professional development (CPD) and maintains a CPD portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Experience
Essential criteria
- Appropriate post-registration training and experience in hospital Pharmacy - this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines information, aseptic services, ward services and dispensing)
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients
- Practical Clinical experience covering a range of specialities including medicine & surgery with a broad knowledge of therapeutics
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in delivering training and education
- Experience of drug expenditure reporting
- Experience of managing funding applications for PbR excluded drugs
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Good ability to organise and prioritise work
- Good clinical practice knowledge including the ability to analyse patient specific information to advise on management of medicines
- A good understanding of national and local priorities
- Good ability to use computer systems including Excel, Word & NHS/online databases
- Good personal organisation and time management skills
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of how Homecare companies deliver services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Evans
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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