Barts Health NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Specialist Medicine
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Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated clinical pharmacist to lead our Specialist Medicines Pharmacy Service. You will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to patients at Newham Hospital.
The successful candidate will join a supportive, integrated pharmacy team, committed to delivering high quality patient care. You will have access to further educational opportunities and senior clinicians within Pharmacy and other disciplines who can provide mentorship and aid professional development.
Roles And Responsibilities Include (but Not Limited To)
- To provide a highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to the Specialist Medicine Service department as part of the multidisciplinary team which includes the following:
- To provide clinical pharmacist ward cover as per the rota.
- Optimisation of medication for the individual patient ensuring medicines reconciliation, appropriate clinical screening as well as discharge support via drug listing.
- To provide clinical advice and care to specialist medicine inpatients when required.
- Provision of homecare prescription management
- Contribute to virtual biologic clinics and other multi-disciplinary meetings
- Development of evidence based prescribing guidelines
- To manage a Pharmacist-led specialist medicine Clinic:
- To prescribe medication within scope of practice
- To develop external links, local primary care organisations and any other relevant local and national specialist interest groups.
- To promote high-quality, cost-effective prescribing for patients
- To provide the Associate Director of Pharmacy and Clinical Services Manager with details of output, performance and activity at specified time intervals in an agreed format.
- To lead on the implementation and continuation of biosimilar switch schemes and ensure that patients are switched and within the required timeframe.
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Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
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Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nasira Makan
- Job title: Clinical Services Manager
- Email address: n.makan@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02070555684
For further information and an informal chat or visit, please contact: Nasira Makan Clinical Services Manager (n.makan@nhs.net), 0207 055 5684
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