Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Medicines CIPs
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.
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Job overview
Do you want to join an award-winning department that puts clinical pharmacists at the forefront of medicines optimisation and patient care?
The Pharmacy Department at Barts Health NHS Trust serves a diverse population of 2.5 million people across our major hospital sites in the City of London and East London. We are one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, delivering innovative, patient-focused pharmacy services across a world-renowned healthcare organisation.
We are seeking an ambitious and motivated senior pharmacist to join our team as a Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Medicines CIPs. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering medicines optimisation, driving efficiencies, and identifying medicines-related financial risk across our services.
Working closely with pharmacy teams and the wider multidisciplinary workforce, you will lead and support the development and implementation of medicines Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs). You will collaborate with colleagues across the Trust and local health economy to deliver high-quality, cost-effective patient care while ensuring consistency and sustainability in medicines use.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead and support medicines efficiency and transformation projects
- Identify and implement innovative medicines optimisation initiatives
- Monitor, track and report on medicines savings programmes
- To support the Royal London Pharmacy department and divisional teams in delivering medicines efficiencies and identifying medicines related financial risk.
- To contribute to the work to deliver transformation projects as required, and to be the project lead for selected projects.
- To manage the overall medicines efficiency work-plan, providing monthly status reports and assisting teams in achieving deadlines.
- To manage audit projects to assess outcomes and to assist in development and interpretation of key metrics.
- To lead on delivery of medicines Cost Improvement Plans (CIPs), tracking and reporting on progress.
- To assist with the identification and facilitate the implementation of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) programmes for medicines, and to share schemes with other local providers to ensure consistency across the health economy.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy, working with MDTs
- Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
- Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. trainee pharmacists and foundation training pharmacists
- Experience of training other healthcare professionals both individually and in groups
- Experience of working with prescribing data
- Experience of carrying out audit and project management work
- Experience of working with clinical directorates
- Experience of managing and developing staff
- Experience of working as a pharmacist in primary care
Skills
Essential criteria- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to deliver key messages succinctly and professionally both verbally and in writing
- Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
- Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure
- Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
- Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
- Able to work unsupervised and 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
- Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
- Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training, with excellent teaching and mentoring skills
- Accountable for own professional actions and responsibilities
- Demonstrates expert ability to critically evaluate information and apply to problem solving
- Demonstrates vision and innovation with the ability to implement change through effective strategy and planning
- Demonstrates ability to think logically and reason
- Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others
- Ability of be flexible and manage change in a complex and changing healthcare environment
- Ability to negotiate with and influence others
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of healthcare professional
- Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work / service
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs of cancer chemotherapy, and HIV, gastroenterology and rheumatology patients
- An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to all patients, and how they relate to pharmacy and medicines management in particular those relating to NICE
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
- Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- Awareness of and commitment to clinical governance
- Understands Government policy and vision for the development of health and social care
Qualifications
Essential criteria- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Independent prescribing qualification (or willing to work towards)
- Specialist postgraduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent knowledge and clinical experience
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.
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