Senior Clinical Pharmacist | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - ref. s7277203
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with excellent clinical and interpersonal skills to lead high-quality care to the Medicine and Emergency Services at University College London Hospital.
Medicine and Emergency Services are delivered mainly by two Divisions including the Emergency Services Division with its Emergency Department, Acute Medicine and Ambulatory Care clinical areas, and the Medical Specialties Division which encompasses inpatients wards and several outpatients services such as dermatology, rheumatology, neurophysiology, care of the older person, respiratory medicine, clinical pharmacology, nephrology (with the Royal Free London), diabetes and endocrinology, and cardiology.
Interview date: Two weeks after closing date
Your duties will include co-ordinating and participating in the delivery of day-to-day pharmacy services to medical clinical areas, working closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), attending ward rounds, and other relevant governance and clinical meetings.There will be opportunities to develop and participate in services such as outpatients clinics for the management of long-term medical conditions.
You will use your independent prescribing skills to optimise inpatient medication regimens and prepare handover plans for discharge. As an active member of the MDT you will contribute to service development and quality improvement projects within Medicine and Emergency Services.You will support the MDT, acting as a point of contact for staff and patients with medicines related queries during inpatient admissions, post-discharge, and occasionally in relation to other homecare arrangements.
Through service evaluations and quality improvement projects, you will work to develop and enhance our existing systems and processes, particularly where safety, efficiency, and productivity can be improved through our Electronic Health Records System, Epic.
You will support clinical pathways that cross care boundaries, including ensuring timely transfer discharge information using the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS), support admission avoidance or early discharge pathways such as Hospital at Home, Virtual Wards or Outpatients Parenteral Antibacterials Therapy (OPAT) services.
Where applicable, you will participate in the delivery of cost saving schemes involving complex or high cost drugs, by liaising with UCLH commissioning pharmacists and colleagues across North Central London (NCL) Integrated Care Board (ICB), and Integrated Care Systems (ICS).You will also support homecare services for Medical Specialties patients on specialist and/or high cost drugs, aiming to ensure that all patients are registered on Blueteq® and that the data requirements of our commissioners are met.
Additional management and leadership responsibilities for the Emergency Services and Medical Specialties Divisions will include leading medicines related risk management and governance, medicines expenditure analysis and reporting, audits and service evaluations, multi-professional education and training, and other strategic projects as required.You will also represent the UCLH Pharmacy Department at Directorate and Divisional clinical governance meetings.
You will work as part of our broader clinical pharmacy team and contribute to local and national initiatives to develop and enhance the pharmacy service. You will also contribute to the delivery of educational and developmental programmes, including the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
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Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
This advert closes on Monday 20 Jan 2025