Lead Pharmacist Digital Medication Safety Evaluation

Lead Pharmacist Digital Medication Safety Evaluation

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced hospital pharmacist with an interest in digital health systems to further their experience by undertaking research and evaluation within the Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality.

Working with colleagues in the pharmacy department and the NIHR North West London Patient Safety Research Collaboration, the post holder will be leading on an evaluation of the electronic prescription service in the hospital context, and a research priority setting exercise relating to digital medication safety.

The role will include designing and piloting data collection methods, protocol design, data collection and analysis, report writing and dissemination, all within the area of digital medication safety.

Projects will include an evaluation of the electronic prescription service in the hospital context, and a research priority setting exercise in relation to digital medicines and patient safety. The post holder will also provide support to the pharmacy department as a hospital pharmacist as needed.

Main duties of the job

• To design and pilot suitable methods for data collection.
• To write research protocols and applications for ethics and other approvals as needed.
• To collect data using appropriate quantitative or qualitative methods, according to the relevant study protocol. Some flexibility in working hours may be required.
• To manage data collection, delegating to others as appropriate, using appropriate quantitative or qualitative methods according to the relevant study protocol.
• To manage highly complex analysis of research data.
• To schedule data collection, data analysis and writing up for one or more concurrent studies.

About us

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.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.

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 overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification Education / Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Pharmacy
• Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Mandatory CPD to assess fitness to practice
• Postgraduate Master's degree in a relevant subject
• PhD in a relevant research area

Experience

• Experience in hospital pharmacy
• Experience using electronic systems for prescribing and dispensing of medication
• Previous experience of conducting and writing up research, service development, and/or audit in the hospital setting
• Published research in peer reviewed journal
• Previous experience in managing or supervising staff and students
• Experience with managing research / evaluation projects in the hospital setting

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Ability to influence senior pharmacy, medical, management and multidisciplinary staff
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and improve service quality
• Demonstrated ability to identify and meet own training needs
• Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems in the relevant specialist area
• Word and Excel at an advanced level
• Communicates best practice outside the organisation

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.