Job summary
Are you ready for a new challenge? We are looking for an experienced pharmacist to join our friendly paediatric pharmacy team at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
What you'll do
- Deliver high-quality pharmaceutical care for children and young people with haemoglobinopathies as part of our stem cell transplantation programme.
- Develop and advance the haemoglobinopathies gene therapy service.
- Develop and review clinical guidelines and procedures.
- Help manage medicines governance and support cost-effective prescribing.
- Provide training and teaching for pharmacists and the wider team.
- Get involved in risk management, audit, and quality improvement.
- Support new drug applications.
- Provide clinical and specialist support to the outpatient pharmacy partnership.
- Deputise for the Senior Lead Pharmacist and other Leads, when needed.
Who we're looking for
- Solid foundation experience with hospital paediatric pharmacy.
- Specialist experience in stem cell transplantation (training can be supported)
- Someone motivated, enthusiastic, and keen to develop advanced practice skills.
- Systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) accreditation in paediatrics.
What we offer
- A welcoming, enabling environment where everyone is valued.
- Strong support for your education and training.
- Opportunities to broaden your experience and progress your career.
Main duties of the job
- To lead, deliver, and develop clinical pharmacy services for children within the haematology specialty, including those undergoing stem cell transplantation and autologous gene therapy treatments.
- To lead and deliver pharmacy services relating to apheresis of patients undergoing stem cell collection.
- To be an expert on pharmaceutical care for children.
- To check and verify systemic anti-cancer treatments (SACT) and conditioning cytotoxic therapies.
- To work collaboratively with the Senior Lead Pharmacist Paediatrics to develop services.
- To work collaboratively with other Lead Pharmacists to deliver care to stem cell transplant patients.
- To facilitate and support the safe, efficient and cost-effective use of drugs and to generate ideas for drug expenditure savings and quality improvement.
- To support and develop the women & children's rotational band 7 pharmacists.
- To actively contribute to the development, monitoring and integration of written policies/guidelines/PGDs to align with EBMT/JACIE accreditation requirements.
- To provide a comprehensive ward clinical pharmacy service within children's service and to train other pharmacists in these specialties.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits
- Career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.
- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
- Environmental sustainability commitments and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045.
Equal opportunities
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.
Pay and contract
Pay scheme: Agenda for changeBandBand 8aSalary 66,274 to 73,496 a year pa Inclusive ContractPermanentWorking pattern Full-time
Job locations
St Mary's HospitalLondonW2 1NYUnited Kingdom
Person specification – Education
- Essential: Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Active registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy practice or equivalent
- Undertakes continuing professional development (CPD) and maintains a CPD portfolio
- BOPA SACT passport accreditation or equivalent experience
- Desirable: Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) membership, Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) membership, Non-medical prescriber annotation with GPhC UK BMT passport accreditation
- Management/Leadership qualifications
Experience
- Essential: Post-registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy including substantial experience in paediatric pharmacy.
- Evidence of experience in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines Information, ward services and dispensing).
- Evidence of experience in haematology/oncology, stem cell transplantation and verification of cytotoxics.
- Multi-disciplinary ward round experience.
- Evidence of experience in dealing with high cost drugs and NHSE commissioning (e.g. Blueteq).
- Desirable: Previous experience in managing staff and conducting appraisals, financial reporting and management of appropriate clinical medicines expenditure, Paediatric TPN experience, aseptics experience.
Skills
- Essential: Able to work under pressure and make clinical decisions with limited information.
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and senior management.
- Computer literacy to effectively use computer systems including Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to analyse and provide valuable insight from drug usage reports.
- Desirable: Microsoft Office applications at an advanced level, Communicates best practice both inside and outside the organisation, Demonstrate leadership skills, Practice research.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
St Mary's Hospital
London
W2 1NY
United Kingdom
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