Job overview
We are excited to offer this opportunity to develop your skills in two different spheres of pharmacy - Homecare and Biologic medicines.
As a speciality pharmacist for Homecare, you will lead an experienced team of technical and administrative staff and will be responsible for delivering and developing the medicines delivery service we provide to our patients in their homes. You will be supported to advance your specialist knowledge and utilise your non-medical prescribing skills within a chosen specialty.
You will work collaboratively with our clinicians, specialist nurses and pharmacists to manage the use of Biologic medicines and ensure that we offer the best value biologic medicines to our patients, leading on switch programs where appropriate. You will also ensure compliance with local and national guidance, including Quality Targets.
Main duties of the job
To lead, develop, deliver and evaluate the Trust’s homecare services in line with the Department of Health’s strategy “Homecare Medicines: Towards a vision for the future” and the NHS Long Term Plan to support treatment of people in their own homes.
To manage the Trust’s Pharmacy Homecare Team consisting of technical and administrative staff. To lead and manage the Trust’s use of biologic medicines, including biosimilar switches, through liaison with Specialist Consultants and Nurses, and Finance colleagues.
To assist the Lead Speciality Pharmacists, Associate Director of Pharmacy and senior managers in providing a comprehensive clinical pharmaceutical service for the patients of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT).
To act as an Independent Non-medical Prescriber, in accordance with the Health & Social Care Act 2001, specialising in specific clinical area.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search or .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide pharmaceutical input into specialist teams in relation to Homecare and biologic medicines by attending team meetings and providing pharmaceutical advice. Role includes teaching, training, audit and research.
To lead the Homecare service, including set up and co-ordination of service review meetings for homecare medicines management, working closely with homecare companies, healthcare professionals and patients. Working with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to review existing and develop new homecare service specifications and set realistic demand projections. And investigating incidents in relation to homecare and biologic medicines and responding to national alerts.
To support the delivery of the Trust’s Homecare and biologic medicines strategy ensuring that there are robust clinical governance systems in place.
To develop and co-ordinate pathways ensuring all homecare prescriptions are processed via the pharmacy dispensing system.
The arrangements for reporting any patient related incidents, performance activity and monitoring.
To clinically check Homecare prescriptions in line with the pharmacy department SOP for clinical checking.
To provide monthly reports to pharmacy leads, business managers and finance representatives that details status of homecare expenditure and service development plans for the forthcoming year.
To forge links nationally and regionally with other pharmacists/technicians in homecare services to share best practice.
Line managing designated pharmacy staff. Responsible for staff supervision, annual appraisal, managing attendance and performance, identifying and facilitating staff training needs.
To act as lead for a clinical team within the clinical pharmacy team, responsible for the planning and organisation of the available workforce and rotas to ensure that the work is completed is safe and meets the high standards of the department.
Day to day professional and clinical supervision of pharmacy staff or students both in the department and in clinical areas. Referring any concerns of performance, attendance or conduct to their line manager.
Line manager with responsibility for direct reporting staff for the delivery/management of all or most of the following: Appraisals, sickness absence, capability, conduct and grievance matters, recruitment and selection decisions; departmental workload and allocation (i.e. allocation and reallocation of blocks of work or responsibilities for areas of activities not just allocation of tasks to individuals); formal stages of the application of a range of HR policies.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
1. GPhC registration
Qualifications
Essential criteria
2. Postgraduate diploma
Desirable criteria
3. Independent prescribing
Experience
Essential criteria
4. Hospital Pharmacy Experience
Desirable criteria
5. Previous experience of managing Homecare team