Walk-in Interview for Specialist Surgery Pharmacist- 24th and 25th July 2024

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Closing Date: 14 July 2024
Location: London, UK

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Job Summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Specialist Surgery Pharmacist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. This role offers a unique chance to develop a career in Surgery, working across three hospitals, and collaborating with dynamic pharmacy and surgical teams. The successful candidate will engage in a clinical role across various surgical specialties, deliver education and training, and gain valuable experience in audit, quality improvement, and medicine safety.

Main Duties of the Job

• Rotating between St Mary's, Hammersmith, and Charing Cross hospitals to provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to surgical wards.
• Ensuring the safe, clinically effective, and cost-efficient use of medicines.
• Undertaking quality improvement projects to enhance efficiency in surgical admissions, discharges, and medicine safety.
• Conducting medicine expenditure surveillance and ensuring appropriate use of medicines through audits and service evaluations.
• Supporting and developing trainee pharmacists, band 6 pharmacists, and medicines management pharmacy technicians.

About Us

At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, you will achieve extraordinary things alongside extraordinary people. Our trust is renowned for delivering elective and emergency surgical care across multiple specialties, including major trauma, orthopaedic, colorectal, and vascular surgery, among others. We are committed to fostering a vibrant, expert, kind, collaborative, and aspirational team environment.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements and a focus on wellbeing.
• Staff recognition schemes.
• Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loans, and membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Job Description

The full job description outlines key tasks and responsibilities, while the person specification details the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. Both documents are available as attachments with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Essential: Master's Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent, CPD portfolio maintenance, Certificate in Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent postgraduate experience, and General Pharmaceutical Council membership.
• Desirable: Full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate qualification, non-medical prescribing qualification.

Experience

• Essential: Post-registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy, with a solid grounding in all aspects of practice.
• Desirable: Experience in drug expenditure reporting and delivering training and education.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Essential: Ability to organise and prioritise work, influence senior staff, and use computer systems proficiently.
• Desirable: Experience with electronic prescribing systems.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post requires a Disclosure submission to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers requiring current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Interviews: Scheduled for 24th and 25th July 2024 at St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London, W2 1NY.

Join us at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and be a part of a team that pushes the boundaries in patient care. Apply now and fast-forward your career with us!

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