This is a fantastic opportunity for a pharmacist to work within our Specialist Care Division (SCD) & West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH) Directorate at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital covering a wide range of different specialties (including NICU, Paediatric HDU, Paediatric Gastroenterology, NICU and paediatric TPN, as well as complex maternity and gynaecology patients).
We are looking for an enthusiastic and suitably experienced pharmacist to join our team on a permanent basis as 1.0 WTE band 7 pharmacist.
There will be training given for the provision of tailored parenteral nutrition and training/supervision for involvement in guideline production, financial reporting and other core directorate work.
This is an ideal opportunity for a pharmacist who is keen to build on their women's and children's experience, as well as their management skills to
help the ongoing development of a patient focused clinical pharmacy service to help meet the changing needs of the organisation.
To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Specialist Care Division (SCD) & West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH) Directorate to ensure the safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the speciality and to support and supervise less experienced pharmacists on rotation.
The post holder must be organised, efficient and be able to provide operational and professional support to the Specialist Care Division (SCD) & West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH) Directorate lead
clinical pharmacist in order to provide a high quality, efficient pharmacy service to patients and staff within Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
To provide training and supervision to trainee and rotational pharmacists rotating through Specialist Care Division (SCD) & West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH) Directorate.
To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Specialist Care Division (SCD) & West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH) Directorate ensuring the safe, effective, legal and
accurate use of medicines within the speciality.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children's services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.
We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.
The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven't heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.
To act as a clinical role model for junior pharmacists and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of
medicines in all patients within Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
* Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to a sub-specialty within the Women & Children's Directorate
on a rotational basis.
* Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems.
* Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if applicable.
* Ensure the effective outcomes of treatment with medicines.
* Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines.
* Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the
optimal use of their medicines.
* Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication, including the transcription of requests for dispensing.
* Demonstrate professional accountability to patients.
* Liaise with the Lead Directorate Pharmacist to provide and develop clinical pharmacy services to the Directorate including ward pharmacy and medicines management.
Aim to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in the patients as allocated.
* Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients' pharmaceutical needs to other
pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care environments.
* Demonstrate and apply general pharmaceutical knowledge, and where applicable, specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge in core areas
in order to plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes for patients allocated, thereby ensuring the quality of patient
care.
* Work across traditional boundaries, including the transcription of discharge medication.
* Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds for the Neonatal Unit, Paediatrics and others within the directorate where appropriate, to
integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant level.
* Provide and be competent to formulate and assure stability of parenteral nutrition solutions for neonatal, paediatric and adolescent
patients.
* Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and judgement.
* Be readily available and keen to answer any general medicine related pharmaceutical queries from patients, pharmacists and other
members of staff within pharmacy as well as from other health care professionals including medical staff.
* Proactively provide advice and information on any pharmaceutical issues within the Women & Children's directorate to pharmacy staff
and other healthcare professionals as needed.
* Demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trust's Clinical Governance Agenda.
* Support the maintenance and development of Medication Management Initiatives including use of patients own medicines and selfmedication.