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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On-call and weekend working (rota))
Job ref
392-RNOH-567-F
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Stanmore Hospital
Town
Stanmore, London
Salary
£49,178 - £55,492 pa inc HCAS Outer London
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Band 7

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our department as a band 7 pharmacist to develop your clinical, leadership, research and managerial skills. We support our staff to complete a postgraduate diploma and/ or independent prescribing whilst developing the necessary skillset to grow into a senior pharmacist.

The post holder will join a team of specialist and generalist clinical pharmacists, medicines optimisation technicians and pharmacy assistants in delivering high quality, safe and effective care to patients and service users. You will undertake ward based clinical pharmacy activities in addition to six monthly specialist rotations. These areas include and are not limited to: medicines safety, pre-assessment, drugs and therapeutic committee, spinal rehabilitation medicine, acute pain, chronic pain clinics, clinical trials and research, metabolic bone disease and rheumatology, homecare, complex long-term bone and soft-tissue infection management as well as post-operative care and high dependency/critical care.

This is a full time role entailing 37.5 hours per week and includes weekend and on-call commitment on a rota basis.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, forward thinking and pro-active clinically orientated pharmacist to join our progressive team at RNOH. There is extensive scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities, contributing towards portfolio building and the opportunity for further roles in the future.

The role enables individuals to take on more responsibility whilst starting to build on leadership and management skills to prepare for specialist or senior roles. The post holder will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. Computer skills are essential. Ideally, the post holder should have previous NHS experience and be working towards or completed a clinical pharmacy diploma.

Working for our organisation

The RNOH is a national centre of excellence with an international reputation for diagnosis, assessment and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.

It is an exciting time to join our department as we implemented ePMA in the Trust in Autumn 2022. Alongside the expansion to the theatre facilities, there are ever growing opportunities to contribute to medicines optimisation. Our pharmacy dispensary has recently been relocated to an innovative and purpose built area which also has dedicated office workspace and improved facilities for staff training, research, staff rest areas and dedicated patient consultation and waiting areas.

Research and ongoing development is highly encouraged within the department and the Trust. We actively promote publication of research and involvement at external conferences; this includes regular submissions of posters and presentations at conferences nationally and internationally. Our department profile includes a UKCPA award-winning poster, publishing in peer reviewed journals and presentations at the UKCPA, Oxford Bone Infection, and National Orthopaedic Alliance Conferences.

Other examples of the department’s innovation and achievement projects include creation of the medicines safety dashboard and monthly bulletin, pharmacist led opioid deprescribing clinics and contribution to developing national guidelines such as UKCPA & CPOC.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To contribute to the Trust medicines optimisation agenda to ensure delivery of a safe, clinically and cost effective pharmacy service
  • To review local policies and guidelines on good prescribing practice
  • To ensure that service provision is flexible and responsive to patient’s needs
  • To be an educational supervisor to pre-registration pharmacists
  • To mentor and support junior members of staff
  • To contribute to the education and training programme for all pharmacy and clinical staff
  • To work closely with the wider MDT in the Trust and provide medicines expertise
  • To meet the department and Trust’s audit agenda and quality improvement objectives
  • Critical evaluation of medicines expenditure and financial reporting

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree in pharmacy (BPharm/MPharm depending on year of qualification), Approved by GPhC
  • Registration with GPhC
  • Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (or working towards completion in the second year)
Desirable criteria
  • Basic management training
  • Working towards portfolio development according to RPS framework
  • Independent prescriber (or working towards qualification)
  • RPS membership

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 2 years in NHS Hospital Pharmacy
  • Experience in delivering training
  • Experience in undertaking audit
  • Undertaking of out of hours service provision and/or independent working
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical trial work
  • Working as an Independent Prescriber
  • Clinical caseload management
  • Running telephone and in-person clinics for patients

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good written and spoken English
  • Good organisational skills Ability to apply knowledge and theory into practice
  • Effective leadership skills
  • Ability to effectively prioritise work and meet set targets
  • Computer literacy
  • Innovation and motivation of self and others
  • Able to work as part of a team and as an individual
  • Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism
  • Ability to concentrate on complex tasks and being able to cope with frequent interruptions for urgent requests – works well in busy environments.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sonia Vaghela
Job title
Specialist Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02089095410
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