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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (+ Saturday working and on-call commitment)
Job ref
455-NLFT-0044
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chase Farm Hospital
Town
Enfield
Salary
£67,950 - £78,028 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/05/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Operations Lead Pharmacist

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

The Clinical Operations Lead Pharmacist will provide strong leadership to the pharmacy workforce and ensure effective and safe operational management of pharmacy services. They will support the Associate Chief Pharmacist with the operational delivery of the Medicines Optimisation strategy for the NLFT and deputise for the Associate Chief Pharmacist when required. 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. 

Main duties of the job

•    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. 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. 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

Essential criteria
  • Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
  • General Pharmaceutical Council registered pharmacist
  • Higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Diploma in Psychiatry
Desirable criteria
  • Management / Leadership qualification
  • Educational Supervisor or Practice Supervisor Accreditation
  • Non-medical prescribing qualification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • 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

Essential criteria
  • 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
Desirable criteria
  • 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

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

Other Requirements

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kwame Peprah
Job title
Associate Chief Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02082137413
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