Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (late duties, oncall, weekends and Bank Holidays)
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7230630
- 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
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Women's and Children's pharmacist and POSCU Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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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 postholder will lead the POSCU service and will be an integral member of the women and childrens team to provide a clinical pharmacy service to our patient cohort . You will ideally be a current hospital pharmacist with experience of working in multidisciplinary environment, who is ready to take the next step and lead a team. You will be part of a dynamic and supportive team providing a high level of care.
Main duties of the job
- Assist in the development and maintenance and delivery of a comprehensive clinical Pharmacy service to the Trust and provide operational and professional support to the Lead pharmacist for oncology and Lead Pharmacist for Women’s and Children.
- The post holder is responsible for providing high level of clinical and pharmacy services to Paediatrics/Oncology areas.
- To provide training and supervision to pre-registration and rotational pharmacists
- To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients within Women and Children’s Directorate ensuring the safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the specialty
- To support the maintenance, clinical use and development of chemotherapy e- prescribing and administration system (Chemocare®) across the Paediatric Oncology Service.
The post holder will have designated areas of responsibility, which will vary from time to time according to needs of the service.
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 see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role
Person specification
ATTRIBUTES/SKILLS
Essential criteria
- MRPharm or equivalent
- Diploma/ MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or working to equivalent
- Current GPhC registration as a pharmacist
Desirable criteria
- Independent Non-Medical prescribing qualification
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Relevant Hospital Experience
- Ability to manage staff
- Leading and Implementing change
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service staff
- Recent Clinical Pharmacy/Ward Pharmacy Experience
- Ability to work under pressure
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage process
- Computer literate
- Ability to work with the colleagues as part of a team
- Ability to show Initiative
- Able to lead service
- Flexibility with regard to changes in work schedule
- Enthusiasm
- Paediatric experience
Desirable criteria
- Familiar with Chemocare
- Paediatric haematology-oncology experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to critically review services and processes
- Effective organization and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
Trust values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
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
- Niketa Pandya
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist for Womens and Children.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 3132
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Certificate of Sponsorship
- Telephone
- If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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