Lead Pharmacist - London, United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

Description

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals (cross site) and SEL ICB Town London Salary £66,718 - £76,271 p.a. inc. HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 12/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 28/05/2024

Lead Pharmacist - Population Health and Health Inequalities NHS AfC: Band 8b

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

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

Working for our organisation

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 services.We 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:

• Take pride in what they do
• Respect others
• Strive to be the best
• Act with integrity

Detailed job description and main 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
• 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

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

• Higher degree (MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
• Registration with the GPhC
• MPhil or PhD or equivalent post-graduate level research
• 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

• 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 e.g. 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
• 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

• Able to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
• Manage a specialist clinical pharmacy team e.g. 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)
• 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 e.g. 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

• Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
• Undertake own research
• Experience of multidisciplinary health services research
• Experience of guiding and supporting others to undertake research
• Publication in peer reviewed journals as research team member

Guy's and St Thomas'celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.