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    Lead Pharmacist - London, United Kingdom - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London, United Kingdom

    6 days ago

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    Job summary

    This exciting, innovative and integrated post will be based at Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) and will work proactively across South East London (SEL) integrating with teams at the SEL ICB, to support the wider system with the development and implementation of medication related public health priorities. The role will focus on health at a population level, looking at ways to make communities and environments healthier, reducing ill-health and tackling health inequalities.

    As this is a new role, this is an amazing opportunity for the successful candidate to support development of the job plan for this role and go on to share experience across professional networks so that others may learn from, and embed similar roles within their own organisations.

    Main duties of the job

    The post will focus on the way in which the Pharmacy profession can positively contribute to the key population health priorities for SEL. All work will be aligned to the key areas identified in SEL's Vital 5 and NHS England's Core20PLUS5 strategies.

    The role will support delivery of key projects aligned with this area and be empowered to support the development of new models of care, ensuring patients receive the most from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered.

    For more information, please review the attached Job Description

    About us

    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

    We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts, providing specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

    We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

    Organisational Values:

    Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it . It is important that you understand andreflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.

    The post holder will:

  • Put patients first
  • Take pride in what they do
  • Respect others
  • Strive to be the best
  • Act with integrity
    • Job description

    Job responsibilities

    The post will focus upon the way in which the Pharmacy profession can make a positive impact on the key population health priorities for SEL. These priorities are collectively known as the Vital 5 and comprise of:

  • High Blood Pressure
  • Obesity
  • Smoking
  • Alcohol
  • Mental Health

    • However, in addition to the Vital 5, the role will also focus on other relevant specialist areas delivered by GSTT, that are also known to disproportionately affect individuals living in SEL. These could include, but are not limited to:

  • Infectious Diseases,
  • Maternity
  • Sexual Health
  • Paediatric Health
  • Migrant Health

    • The role will provide a dynamic link between areas of relevant clinical pharmacy practice at GSTT and the services being delivered by partner organisations across SEL.

    See the attached JD and PS for more details and the full range of duties

    Person Specification

    Qualifications / Education

    Essential

  • MPharm degree
  • Higher degree (MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
  • Registration with the GPhC

    • Desirable

  • MPhil or PhD or equivalent post-graduate level research
  • Management qualification or equivalent experience
  • Master level qualification and/or equivalent expert experience in public health or health inequalities
  • Registered with the GPhC as a non-medical prescriber

    • Expert Clinical Practice

    Essential

  • Significant and current experience of providing a clinical pharmacy service to an area of medicine that features within the focus areas of public and population health.
  • Providing a clinical pharmacist service to outpatients as a clinic practitioner where relevant
  • Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in areas aligned with population and public health medicine
  • Applies a whole system approach to problem solving
  • Make considered recommendations and facilitate consensus-based decision making including when the evidence is conflicting or lacking
  • Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to medicine use
  • Demonstrate innovation and produces demonstrable improvement in service delivery
  • Motivate and inspire others
  • Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
  • Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level
  • Communicate highly complex or contentious medicines related information to staff, using a variety of methods.
  • Effectively challenge current practice of healthcare professionals working in areas of medicine and pharmacy practice, linked to population and public health, using negotiating and influencing skills.
  • Communicate in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
  • Work effectively and co-operatively, facilitating across disciplines and organisations, with people of different backgrounds and viewpoints

    • Desirable

  • Active participation in creating and interpreting national health policy
  • Member of relevant Professional Groups
  • Have previously worked in a public health, population health or health inequalities environment

    • Management of Service and Staff

    Essential

  • Able to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
  • Manage a specialist clinical pharmacy team as a clinical team leader.
  • Reconcile national priorities with local realities
  • Establish processes for the setting of standards of care
  • Identify and manage the risks involved with delivering a complex and high level service
  • Provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information, including medicine expenditure reports for a clinical directorate / speciality
  • Demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders and the profession
  • Identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget
  • Demonstrate experience of providing input at directorate management board (or equivalent) level.
  • Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate team
  • Provision of drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice
  • Proven experience of managing and developing a service within limited resources
  • Proven medicines related policy development and implementation
  • Proven experience of working at a strategic level across the wider health community
  • Recognition as an expert nationally and internationally through publications / presentations or officer in a national or international group
  • Able to shape the direction of professional group (current or previous Committee Member or Member of Expert Practice development group)

    • Desirable

  • To have managed an area of clinical pharmacy services and staff
  • To have contributed to the appropriate growth of the pharmacy team in response to patient and service need
  • Understanding of pharmacy procurement through experience in contract negotiation.
  • Demonstrable experience of change management at an organisation or system level
  • Experience of implementing a cost reduction programme within a directorate or more widely

    • Research and Development

    Essential

  • Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice
  • Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
  • Undertake own research
  • Experience of multidisciplinary health services research

    • Desirable

  • Experience of guiding and supporting others to undertake research
  • Publication in peer reviewed journals as research team member
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