Highly Specialist Cardiac (Critical Care) Pharmacist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the cardiac team at Barts Heart Centre at Barts Health NHS Trust. This is an exceptional career opportunity for an experienced, high calibre pharmacist looking to develop their career, leadership as well as clinical skills to cardiovascular medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Main duties of the job:

• You will work closely with pharmacy colleagues, alongside medical and nursing staff on a wide range of medicines management matters.
• Gain valuable experience in managing staff to optimise medicines use within the trust to patients with cardiovascular disease.
• You should have extensive cardiology experience and have a clear vision of how you see the future of clinical pharmacy services within the speciality.

Job responsibilities:

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required.

Experience:

• Significant experience of working as a registered clinical pharmacy practitioner in an acute hospital NHS setting.
• Appropriate experience in providing a hospital-based pharmacy service within cardiac services, including experience managing level 2 or level 3 patients.
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care.
• Ability to undertake and facilitate quality improvement, reflective practice, teaching and CPD.
• Experience appraising staff and giving feedback.
• Experience of leading and supervising research, quality improvement or audit projects.
• Clinical experience in critical care.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail.
• Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure.
• Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.
• Good analytical & organisational ability.

Knowledge:

• Sound knowledge of drugs and therapeutics in cardiology at Diploma level or equivalent.
• Thorough understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk management.
• Knowledge and awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to cardiology.
• Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation.
• Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives.

Qualifications:

• MPharm or equivalent.
• Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC.
• Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum postgraduate diploma level).
• Independent prescribing qualification, or willing to undergo training to become an IP.

Other:

• Leads by example, promoting the Bart's health values.
• High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.
• Committed to the continuous development of staff and self.
• Decisive, using sound judgement in decision making in a timely and confident manner.
• Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.