Highly Specialist Pharmacist, Critical Care
We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and energetic pharmacist to help develop the clinical pharmacy service within our busy yet friendly 44 bed Adult Critical Care Unit and work closely with the division to support high-quality patient care. The Royal London Hospital is a major trauma centre, offering exposure to a wide range of specialties including trauma, neurosurgery, infectious diseases, nephrology, hepatology, HIV medicines, neurology, vascular, hepatobiliary, endocrine, and stroke.
The successful candidate will provide expert pharmaceutical input into complex cases as a key member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), while also supporting the strategic direction of the service. As one of our lead pharmacists, you will contribute to the delivery and development of our clinical pharmacy provision, including guideline development, line management, training, audit activity, and governance and finance reporting.
You will bring the vision, enthusiasm, and influencing skills required to deliver the highest standards of patient care, working closely with our medical, nursing, and pharmacy colleagues. Strong IT skills and independent prescribing are highly desirable, as we have electronic prescribing in place. Previous experience in critical care and MDT working is essential. You will be fully supported to continue developing your skills within this role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will carry out the full range of duties as the Highly Specialist Pharmacist in Critical Care to deliver patient focused, quality care, based primarily at the Royal London Hospital.
To promote the responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing of medicines within Critical Care to optimise clinical outcomes, minimise adverse reactions and improve medicines safety. The post holder will be supporting the Lead Clinical Pharmacist, Critical Care in leading a team of staff in the delivery of a high quality clinical, professional pharmacy service to the speciality and the division.
A major focus of this role will be improving the pharmacy service within our expanding high dependency unit, which is increasing by 12 beds. Additionally, we are exploring opportunities to enhance weekend pharmacy provision and transition towards a 6 or 7 day operating model to better support patient flow and continuity of care.
Job 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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Person Specification
Experience
- Significant experience of working as a registered clinical pharmacy practitioner in an acute hospital NHS setting
- Previous experience of providing a clinical pharmacy service to critical care at Band 7 level or equivalent.
- Appropriate experience in providing a hospital based pharmacy service to a Critical Care or high dependency unit (Level 2 & Level 3)
- Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
- Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. pre-registration / basic grade pharmacists
- Ability to undertake and facilitate quality improvement, reflective practice, teaching and CPD
- Experience of successfully managing staff, performing appraisals and giving feedback
- Experience of providing evaluated information on drug expenditure.
- Experience of critical care prescribing including Continuous infusion prescribing and review
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills.
- Able to work unsupervised and under pressure
- Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
- Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training
- Close working with the multidisciplinary and wider pharmacy team to optimise patient flow and patient outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
- Management of risk in the clinical use of medicines
- Demonstrates critical appraisal skills
Knowledge
- Knowledge of drug and therapeutics at Diploma level or equivalent.
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs of adult critical care patients
- Excellent knowledge of the medical management and pharmaceutical care needs of Critical Care (level 2 & 3) and surgical patients
- An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to critical care and surgical patients
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
Qualifications
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Independent prescribing qualification or willingness to undertake
- Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum postgraduate diploma level
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Advanced Pharmacist (Critical Care) credentialed or working towards, or equivalent demonstrable advanced 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.
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