Band 8a Lead Pharmacist- Patient Services

The Senior Pharmacist for patient services will assist in leading, delivering, developing and evaluating a high quality clinical and pharmaceutical service to inpatients and outpatient services.

This includes the responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day service provision, including allocation of staff and provision of cover in the event of sickness.

The Trust takes pride as one of the major specialist centres for infectious diseases, liver and renal transplants, breast and plastic surgery, myeloma, and neuroendocrine tumours. Working in one of the main speciality centres brings exciting opportunities to see a range of patients at different levels of complexities. Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this internationally renowned teaching hospital. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do.

This post holder will be responsible for promoting governance and the safe use of medicines across the Trust alongside providing a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within a defined clinical specialty.

To work closely with the multidisciplinary teams, clinical leads, and divisional managers for inpatient MDTU and outpatient services. To oversee the operational, clinical and strategic components including being responsible for optimising digital pathways related to Patient Services. To have overall responsibility for Patient Services, including ensuring compliance with relevant local, Trust, professional, ethical and regulatory standards.

To assure compliance of Patient Services with relevant Key Performance  involved in quality improvement projects which aim to improve performance within patient services

To support with education and training activities of all pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals in the context of patient service activities

To support with compliance with external governance requirements relating to patient services

Develop tools to capture and analyse performance and report this month. Leading on the training and induction of pharmacy staff, ensuring they are adequately trained and supported to carry out their duties.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

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Please see the attached job description for a detailed job description and responsibilities for this role

• GPhC registration
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered supplementary or independent prescriber
• Advanced qualification in specialist area

• Considerable experience working in hospital pharmacy and proven experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist
• Experience of contributing to policy, planning and service development
• Experience of managing own workload
• Experience of managing change and leading service developments
• Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure and high cost drugs
• Experience of writing / implementing clinical guidelines and government directives
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Evidence of clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence based practice
• Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
• Experience as a clinical pharmacy…