Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity for a committed, innovative and experienced clinician to join the Haemostasis and Thrombosis team. Applications are invited for a full-time pharmacist or specialist nurse to lead in anticoagulation development and VTE prevention at Guy's and St Thomas'.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to work with this specialist group of patients. This post is within the multidisciplinary Haemophilia and Thrombosis team which manages patients with complex thrombotic and haemostasis problems within the Trust and from all over the UK.
The postholder must be a fully qualified pharmacist or nurse with experience in this area.
Interested? Contact the leads to find out more about the post.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will take on a split role including anticoagulation lead, cancer VTE specialist and VTE prevention lead for the trust. For complete information about this role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please see the Job Description and Person Specification.
• Lead anticoagulation role: Act as system manager. Lead on service reporting, evaluation and development in line with Trust and NHS agendas.
• VTE prevention: Leading on change and quality improvement in VTE prevention policies and reporting.
• Clinical Practice: Provide expert clinical care to cancer-associated thrombosis and anticoagulation patient, offering specialist advice to clinicians.
• Training & Development: Deliver and assess training for pharmacy and nursing staff in anticoagulation and all staff on VTE prevention.
• Quality & Evaluation: Monitor anticoagulation and hospital-acquired VTE incidents, lead audits, prepare reports, and support regulatory inspections.
• Research & Innovation: Contribute to relevant clinical research, audit, and the development of new protocols, guidelines, and best practices.
•To work as part of an integrated clinical team responsible for co-ordinating the care of adults with thrombotic and bleeding disorders.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age. See .
Organisational Strategy and Values:
The Trust strategy sets out what we will do, the values help us to define how we do it. The post holder will be:
·Caring - Put patients first.
·Ambitious – Innovate and strive for excellence.
·Inclusive - Respect others and work collaboratively.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about this role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please seethe Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Degree in Pharmacy/Nursing plus pre-registration training
2. Evidence of GCP training
3. Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
Desirable criteria
4. Independent prescribing
5. Research qualification
6. Other clinical practice qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Experience of having led a clinical service for patients receiving or requiring anticoagulation
8. Experience of managing and making appropriate referrals
9. Experience of multidisciplinary team working
10. Demonstrable independent decision making and expert clinical knowledge
11. Experience in VTE prevention requirements and medicines safety incidents
12. Experience in clinical audit or service evaluation to improve practice
Desirable criteria
13. Experience of managing clinical services and delivering patient care for any speciality
14. Senior member of recognised pharmacy organisation ( UKCPA HAT or Thrombosis Network) (2)
15. Experience of out-patient clinic work
16. Experience of co-ordinating/delivering the undergraduate or post-registration student clinical education
Skills
Essential criteria
17. Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty
18. Plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes/services.
19. Demonstrates advanced level of clinical knowledge, reasoning and judgement
20. Enhance the quality of patient care
21. Demonstrate a whole-system patient-focused approach.
22. Demonstrate professional accountability to patients.
23. Demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trust’s Clinical Governance Agenda.
24. Identify and promote best practice
25. To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical services
26. Work collaboratively with, the multidisciplinary team and management
Desirable criteria
27. Proactively develop clinical services in line with local and national objectives
28. Manage difficult and ambiguous problems
29. Make decisions with limited information
30. Demonstration of active participation in multi-disciplinary health care research/publication of research
31. Ensure delivery and monitoring of the clinical governance agenda in relation to medicines use
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.