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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to play a pivotal role in Medicines Safety and Clinical Governance across Whittington Trust.
Are you up for the challenge in building excellence?
Are you passionate about working with a wide range of healthcare processionals to promote a positive safety culture? If so, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.
We are looking for an experienced Pharmacist with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge, excellent communication skills and a strive for excellence.
The post holder will be expected to forge strong professional relationships across the trust and be responsible for the leading on patient safety and clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines management including Controlled Drugs. They will be pivotal in the ongoing development and delivery of the trust medication safety programme.
The post holder will need to have the ability to work with a wide range of multidisciplinary teams and be a key member of a number of groups and committees concerned with patient safety internally as well as externally.
We look forward to taking these next steps of this journey with you!
Apply today.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details
Main duties of the job
For more information relating to the main duties of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information relating to the main duties and responsibilities of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
* MPharm (or equivalent)
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
* Membership of the RPS and relevant professional clinical group (e.g. Meds Safety Network or UKCPA)
* Independent prescriber
* Leadership or Management qualification
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
* High-level clinical skills sufficient to engage in appropriate dialogue with senior clinicians around complex clinical cases.
* Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing).
* Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
* Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members
* Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors.
* Good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
* Good problem-solving & numeracy skills
* Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments
* Understand, articulate and apply the principles of change management to the healthcare setting
Desirable criteria
* Demonstrates abilities to drive quality improvement and digital innovation to support medicines safety
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
* Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work.
* Good understanding of the role of medication safety & clinical governance within the acute setting and how this supports patient care.
* Good understanding of the role of medication safety & clinical governance within the community setting and how this supports patient care.
* Good working knowledge of clinical governance and medicines management issues.
* Relevant clinical experience from working in an acute hospital setting.
* Appropriate knowledge of the legal requirements when dealing with and processing Controlled Drugs
* Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and medicines policies.
* Experience as a line manager.
* Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback.
* Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical supervisor.
* Experience of conducting medicines management audits and producing action plans and reports, based on data.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of coordinating drug recalls/MHRA alerts/CAS and clinical alerts.
* Knowledge of national bodies responsible for supporting clinical governance and medicine safety in the acute hospital setting.
* Experience of conducting medication error investigations and producing action plans linked to service improvement.
* Experience of contributing to, or leading quality improvement projects.
* An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy.
* Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities.
* An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting.
* Working within the PSIRF and CQC Framework.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* Reliable, Self-motivated.
* Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team.
* Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
* Able to work on own initiative or as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post.
* Commitment to continuing personal development.
* Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda.
Desirable criteria
* Ability to articulate their own leadership style
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
* Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
* Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
* Participate in required training and supervision.
* Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
* Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
* In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
For further support on submitting an application please refer to the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit: https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1
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
* JD&PS (PDF, 360.4KB)
* Functional requirements (PDF, 211.9KB)
* Welcome from the Chief Pharmacist (PDF, 189.7KB)
* Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
* Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)
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