Specialist Pharmacist - Surgery

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join the Surgery Pharmacy Team at the Royal London Hospital. The Surgery Division provides a range of emergency and elective surgical services to the local and wider North East London communities.

The successful applicant will have significant proven experience and will be expected to lead and provide medicines reconciliation services, medicines optimisation, specialist pharmacist input and pharmacy transcribing services across the elective surgery wards, supporting the other surgery division wards and services as needed.

They are expected to have leadership skills and be able to support more junior staff, including trainee and foundation pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to provide excellent, person-centred service delivery alongside MDT colleagues. The successful candidate will need to be flexible, forward thinking, and possess excellent communication and inter-personal skills as they will have everyday contact with a range of multi-professional colleagues.

For the successful applicant, this is a great opportunity to work in one of the most complex and specialist elective pathways across the country, with an opportunity to get involved in multiple projects and work alongside the nursing and surgical teams in improving surgical care for the patients of North East London and beyond.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry out the full range of duties as a Specialist Pharmacist in ElectiveSurgery to deliver patient focused, quality care, based primarily at the Royal London Hospital.Their primary role will be to look after the elective surgery ward, day surgery unit as well asworking as a specialist pharmacist across the elective pathway, covering other areas of theservice as required. The post holder will also support across theatres, pain and anaestheticservices across the Royal London Hospital alongside the Lead Pharmacist, Surgery andAnaesthetics.To promote the responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing of medicines within surgery,peri-operative care and pain in order to optimise clinical outcomes, minimise adverse reactionsand improve medicines safety. The post holder will be supporting the Lead Pharmacist,Surgery and Anaesthetics in leading a team of staff in the delivery of high quality clinical,professional and technical pharmacy service to the speciality.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

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.

Person Specification Experience

• Experience of working in a high acuity unit such as acute medical admissions, acute surgical admissions or another rotational role
• Proven experience of good performance in previous posts. Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
• Foundation knowledge in providing a hospital based pharmacy service to medical and surgical wards
• Some experience of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. pre-registration / foundation training pharmacists / nurses / junior doctors
• Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
• Experience of working on a high dependency unit
• Successful experience of managing & leading projects
• Experience of delivering professional training and education
• Experience of being involved in managing medication incidents

Skills

• Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
• Good interpersonal skills
• Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Assertive, diplomatic, persuasive with ability to negotiate
• Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
• Ability to manage time effectively and work to deadlines
• Demonstrates initiative
• Able to develop critical appraisal skills
• Able to work unsupervised, follow written instruction and work under pressure IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
• Demonstrates effective customer service skills
• Good team worker
• Evidence of good ward practice
• Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training
• Effective pharmaceutical care skills
• Ability to motivate and act as a role model
• Able to plan, organize and deliver cost improvement plans
• Experience in local implementation of national standards and guidelines
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
• Experience of working across a network to adopt best practices

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Minimum of a post graduate certificate in clinical pharmacy or a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Must have started working on the second stage of the diploma
• Independent Prescriber or willing to work towards qualification
• GCP Trained in clinical trials

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.

Lead Pharmacist, Surgery and Anaesthetics