Clinical Operations Lead Pharmacist - London - ref. e05903119

Job overview

The Clinical Operations Lead Pharmacist will also support safe and effective medicines management across the trust and continuous improvement in medicines optimisation as an integral part of the Clinical Strategy. They will also support the Associate and Deputy Chief Pharmacists in the delivery of the strategic direction and ambitions set by the Chief Pharmacist.

• To support the Associate Chief Pharmacist in leading, developing, delivering and evaluating pharmacy services and medicine optimisation as delegated by the Chief and Deputy Chief Pharmacists.
• To be an active member of the Senior Pharmacy Management team with allocated management responsibilities.
• Provide leadership and maintain and improve standards of clinical pharmacy practice, quality assurance, risk management and other issues of clinical governance related to medicines optimisation.
• Be responsible for delivering the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
• Provide leadership at a divisional level on medicines optimisation issues within the Trust.
• To hold a variety of clinical pharmacy responsibilities, including reviewing non-formulary requests.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• General Pharmaceutical Council registered pharmacist
• Higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Diploma in Psychiatry

• Management / Leadership qualification
• Educational Supervisor or Practice Supervisor Accreditation
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Skills

• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate with patients and all grades of health care staff (verbally and in writing)
• Good verbal and written presentation skills
• Good interpersonal skills, confident and assertive when dealing with other professionals
• Good computer literacy skills
• Ability to meet set targets
• Ability to meet expected levels of practice as defined by others
• Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
• Ability to proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
• Ability to identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget
• Ability to establish recording systems and to provide necessary reports
• Ability to work both independently/autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary team
• Ability to prioritise and respond to urgent requests for advice.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years post-registration experience in hospital pharmacy
• Significant demonstrable advanced experience of working as a clinical pharmacist practitioner in mental health
• Appropriate clinical experience and expertise in Mental Health. Must have highly specialised knowledge of psychopharmacology and mental health pharmacy services
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
• Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at work
• Significant experience of supervising and managing staff
• Experience of training and educating healthcare staff from a variety of professions
• Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload
• Experience of developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating protocols, guidelines & policy
• Experience of managing change
• Experience of implementing quality improvement and efficiency projects

• Knowledge of CMM ePMA system
• Evidence of involvement in the management of difficult situations and conflict resolution
• Involvement in project work
• Experience of active participation in multidisciplinary healthcare research

Personal Qualities

• Excellent team player
• Must have a positive “can do” attitude

Other Requirements

• The ability to travel to a variety of sites within the trust is essential