Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (including weekends, late duties, on-call, bank holidays)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends, late duties, on-call, bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7122587
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum inclusive of HCAS Outer London
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist Virtual ward and community wards
Band 8a
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced hospital pharmacist with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledge of the medicines optimisation agenda.
Main duties of the job
This post is 50/50 split between virtual ward and community wards
In this role you will:
- Lead, manage and develop clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to virtual and community wards
- Provide regular, direct, patient facing clinical pharmacy services within virtual wards and other clinical areas
- Provide medicines related training to healthcare professionals
- Participate and contribute to the relevant governance, quality and safety meetings, and help deliver the medicines safety agenda within virtual /community wards and pharmacy services
- Liaise with primary care to ensure seamless transfer of care for patients
Working for our organisation
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Completion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Independent prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Clinical Practice qualification or working to or equivalent
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy may be contentious or complex
- Ability to innovate and implement change
- Ability to supervise the work of junior staff
- Ability to work with other colleagues as part of a team
- Ability to resolve conflict
- Ability to show Initiative
- Time & project management skills
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience post registration in a hospital based clinical post
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Recent Clinical Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process
- Experience of teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others eg Trainee pharmacists/Foundation training pharmacists/other staff gorup
- Ability to critically review services and Processes
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Able to communicate complex information effectively using clear and spoken English
- Good team worker
- Assertive and diplomatic
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Shows empathy towards patients/carers
- Interest in development of others
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self development
- Enthusiastic, self-motivating, hardworking and conscientious
- Reliable with a good attendance record
- Ability to work under pressure
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities
Other requirments
Essential criteria
- Able to do Late duty, Weekend duties, bank holidays or oncall duties as rostered
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
- Clara Lai
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088873409
- Additional information
Allan Stein
Deputy chief pharmacist
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