Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 259-6262187RLH
- Employer
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 per annum inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/05/2024
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Biosimilar and High-Cost Medicines
Band 8a
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.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Job overview
The Pharmacy Department at Bart’s Health covers a population of 2.5 million. We provide clinical pharmacy, medicines management and medicines optimisation services from our four hospital sites across the City of London and East London.
We are looking for a motivated and dynamic pharmacist with clinical and management experience to join the Biosimilar Switch team at the Royal London Hospital (RLH). The post holder will be supporting RLH and Mile End Hospital (MEH) in delivering biosimilar switches and medicines efficiencies within the specialist medicine division. The role may adapt depending on the requirements of the hospital agenda.
The post holder will be managing the Biosimilar Switch team to deliver transformational projects. You will work closely with the pharmacy team, homecare team and the wider specialist medicine
multidisciplinary team to support Royal London Pharmacy department and specialist division team in delivering biosimilar switches and medicines efficiencies across the RLH and MEH sites.
As part of this role, you will be leading the Biosimilar Switch team to identify, plan, implement, track and report various biosimilar
switches within the specialist medicine division. You will be required to assess outcomes and oversee the tracking of key metrics to help
support the cost improvement strategy.
Main duties of the job
• To support Royal London Pharmacy department and clinical teams in delivering biosimilar switches and medicines efficiencies within the specialist medicine division.
• To assist with the identification and facilitate the implementation of high-cost medicine efficiencies and to help share across the trust to ensure consistency.
• To contribute to the work to deliver transformation projects, and to be the project lead for selected projects.
• To manage the biosimilar switch team and oversee the project progression.
• To lead on the delivery of biosimilar switches, tracking and report on progress.
• To manage and review financial aspects of the projects to assess outcomes and to assist in the development and interpretation of key metrics.
The biosimilar switch project is anticipated to run over the next few years, after completion of the projects, the biosimilar team will be moved into a role within The Royal London/ Mile End Hospital pharmacy team based on the operational and clinical needs. This will be undertaken following consultation with the post holder.
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 are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.”
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
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of carrying out audit and project management work
- • Experience of working with clinical directorates
- • Experience of managing and developing staff
- • Experience of providing a hospital-based service to gastroenterology, rheumatology and dermatology patients.
- • Experience working with high-cost medicines and biologics.
- • Understanding of the pharmacy homecare process
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Excellent interpersonal skills
- • 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
- • Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others
- • Ability to negotiate with and influence others.
- • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of healthcare professional.
- • 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.
- • Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones.
Desirable criteria
- • Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work / service.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
- • Understanding of high-cost and biologic medicines.
- • 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 gastroenterology, rheumatology and dermatology 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
- • Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- • Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- • Independent prescribing qualification (or willing to work towards)
Desirable criteria
- • Management qualification or equivalent experience
- • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sunita Alexandrou
- Job title
- CIPS Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
List jobs with Barts Health NHS Trust in Health Science Services or all sectors