Job overview
Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months.
Barking, Havering and Redbridge have a growing ageing population, with around 18% now aged 65 or over. As this number rises, the need for proactive, coordinated care becomes more urgent. Older adults are at higher risk of frailty, long term conditions and complications from hospital admission, such as deconditioning, infections, delirium and loss of independence.
BHRUT aims to transform care by shifting from reactive crisis management to early identification and intervention. Central to this is a multi professional Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, rapid same day or next day urgent appointments, and the ability to deliver short term IV therapies outside hospital to prevent avoidable admissions.
The Trust is building integrated pathways across acute, community and primary care and is recruiting skilled staff to deliver this vision. The specialist clinical pharmacist will play a key role in medicines optimisation, patient reviews, education, and service improvement within frailty services. This is an opportunity to help shape innovative, high quality care for the region’s ageing population.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for providing and developing comprehensive, patient orientated services for frailty across Barking Havering and Redbridge University Trust. They will work closely with the lead Pharmacist for Frailty and out of hospital care to further innovate and develop the frailty service with the aim of reducing attendances to the emergency department, reduce acute admissions into hospital and ensure the safe and effective use of medicines for our elderly population.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. First 18 months of the JBP (UCL) Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent qualification) working towards full completion.
Desirable criteria
2. Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
3. Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner – this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice.
Desirable criteria
5. Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice
6. Change management and quality improvement experience and direct involvement of redesign within a service, including promoting evidence-based practice.
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.