Urgent & Emergency Care Specialist Pharmacist
- North London
- £64,156-71,148 per year
- Contract
- Full-time
- Provide and further develop high value clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to the ED.
- Contribute to the ED & Acute Medicine MDT through multiple training sessions,
- Input into clinical guidelines, PGD development and service improvement work.
- Contribute pharmacy leadership to the Pharmacy Emergency and Integrated Medicine team by supporting junior staff during rotations
- Work across the hospital-community interface to improve medicines management on transfer of care and improve patient safety.
- MPharm (or equivalent)
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent Prescriber
- Member of relevant professional clinical groups (e.g. UKCPA)
- Leadership or Management qualification
- High-level clinical skills sufficient to engage in appropriate dialogue with senior clinicians around complex clinical cases.
- Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing).
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
- Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members
- Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors.
- Good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
- Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments
- Understand, articulate and apply the principles of change management to the healthcare setting
- Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work.
- Relevant clinical experience from working in areas linked to Urgent and Emergency Care / Acute Medicine.
- Suitable experience of working in an acute hospital setting.
- Experience as a line manager.
- Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and policies.
- Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback.
- Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical supervisor.
- Knowledge of national bodies responsible for supporting clinical governance and medicine safety in the acute hospital setting
- Experience of contributing to, or leading quality improvement projects
- An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy
- Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities
- An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting
- Reliable, Self-motivated
- Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team
- Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Able to work on own initiative or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post.
- Commitment to continuing personal development.
- Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
- Ability to articulate their own leadership style
- MPharm (or equivalent)
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent Prescriber
- Member of relevant professional clinical groups (e.g. UKCPA)
- Leadership or Management qualification
- High-level clinical skills sufficient to engage in appropriate dialogue with senior clinicians around complex clinical cases.
- Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing).
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
- Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members
- Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors.
- Good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
- Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments
- Understand, articulate and apply the principles of change management to the healthcare setting
- Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work.
- Relevant clinical experience from working in areas linked to Urgent and Emergency Care / Acute Medicine.
- Suitable experience of working in an acute hospital setting.
- Experience as a line manager.
- Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and policies.
- Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback.
- Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical supervisor.
- Knowledge of national bodies responsible for supporting clinical governance and medicine safety in the acute hospital setting
- Experience of contributing to, or leading quality improvement projects
- An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy
- Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities
- An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting
- Reliable, Self-motivated
- Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team
- Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Able to work on own initiative or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post.
- Commitment to continuing personal development.
- Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda
- Ability to articulate their own leadership style