Advanced Pharmacist-Sleep Medicine NHS AfC: Band 8a Speciality: Sleep Medicine Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 pro rota Weekly working pattern: Part time - 22.5 hours per week in East Grinstead

Welcome to Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and thank you for your interest.

In addition to receiving tertiary referrals from across the South East of England, we have a network of ‘spoke’ sites at district general hospitals enabling our consultants to offer their expertise with routine treatments and consultations as close to patients’ homes as is possible. With the recent addition of video led ‘virtual’ consultations we also enable patients who have some distance to travel to avoid the additional stress and worry of a long journey.

Working at QVH combines the excitement, challenge and career opportunities of many larger organisations with the satisfaction of delivering excellent patient care that really does re-build our patients’ lives.

We also offer attractive benefits such as

• tailored personal development to support career aspirations, including accredited clinical and management development programmes
• flexible working arrangements for a work-life balance that suits you and your needs
• a dedicated reward programme, offering a range of national and local discounts, cashback and tax relief schemes

The Trust is committed to offering a range of flexibleworking options to support employees to balance work and personal commitments, and the delivery of high quality and cost effective services.

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Sustainability

At Queen Victoria Hospital we want to be the first Net Zero Hospital in England, and to achieve that wants every member of staff to be a green champion. The way in which the Trust works has a significant impact on the organisation’s carbon footprint and that of our patients. From the heat, light and power supplies within the hospital to avoiding unnecessary patient journeys, the Trust is empowering all staff to create a sustainable health and care environment for future generations. The Trust expects all staff to reuse and recycle more, to use energy and water efficiently, to walk or cycle to work if you can, and to have a focus on sustainability in the workplace.

Sleep disorders affect millions of people in the UK, yet Sleep Medicine remains an underserved specialist area that is rapidly growing in demand. Due to an unprecedented increase in activity, we are expanding our multidisciplinary team and looking for a pharmacist to join us who has an interest in this truly fascinating and rewarding specialism. Helping someone reclaim their ability to sleep soundly can be genuinely challenging work, but few things in clinical practice are more satisfying.

Sleep medicine remains a niche specialism that few pharmacists have the chance to practise, since meaningful exposure depends on access to a dedicated sleep centre. At QVH, we are one of the biggest sleep centres in the country and one of very few that offer the full spectrum of sleep services, from respiratory sleep-disordered breathing to insomnia and complex neurological sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, parasomnias, and limb movement disorders in sleep. Our team is continuously looking to innovate and improve, and contribution from all members of the MDT is sought in order to deliver the best possible care to the patients referred to our service.

Main duties of the job

As a prescribing pharmacist, you will lead independent follow-up clinics where medication initiation, titration, and optimisation are core activities. You will also contribute to service development, improvement, audit, and guideline and pathway development, and you will maintain broad clinical pharmacy skills across hospital pharmacy services as part of the role.

We are looking for someone with a genuine interest in, and the ambition to build real expertise in, sleep medicine, someone with an appetite for a specialist caseload, a willingness to learn new skills, and the ability to bring experience gained across a previous career in mental health, neurology, neuroscience, general medicine, or respiratory practice to help build that expertise in this role.

We are looking for an excellent pharmacist ready to take the step into specialist practice. Informal enquiries and visits to the department can be arranged before applying.

Working for our organisation

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

We specialise in conditions of the eyes (corneoplastics), hands, head and neck cancer and skin cancer, reconstructive breast surgery, maxillofacial surgery and prosthetics, providing regional and national services in these areas of clinical expertise.Our world-leading clinical teams also treat more common conditions of the eyes, hands, skin, and teeth for the people of East Grinstead and the surrounding areas. In addition, QVH provides a minor injuries unit, expert therapies, a sleep service, and a growing portfolio of community-based services.Patients consistently rate QVH amongst the top hospitals in the country for quality of care.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Lead independent prescribing follow-up clinics for patients with sleep disorders, including medication initiation, titration, and optimisation within your scope of practice
• Work as an integral member of the sleep multidisciplinary team, contributing pharmacy expertise to patient management discussions and shared care planning
• Contribute to the development, review, and implementation of clinical guidelines, protocols, and care pathways for sleep medicine
• Participate in service development, quality improvement projects, and clinical audit within the sleep service
• Provide medicines information and support to colleagues across the MDT and wider clinical teams
• Undertake general clinical pharmacy duties as part of the wider hospital pharmacy service, maintaining broad clinical skills alongside specialist practice
• Support the training, supervision, and development of junior pharmacy staff and students as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in line with professional and organisational standards
• Engage in continuing professional development, working towards advanced and eventually specialist-level practice in sleep medicine

Person specification

Qualifications

• MPharm in Pharmacy or equivalent
• GPhC registered
• Post graduate certificate in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Independent prescriber
• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent practical experience
• RCPharm Faculty accreditation

Experience

• Extensive experience in the optimisation of medicines
• Working in a multidisciplinary team, able to collaborate successfully
• Extensive experience in independent prescribing in clinical practice
• Experience of service evaluation and audit
• Experience in pharmacy-led clinics
• Specialist expertise in either neurology/neurosciences, mental health, general medicine, care of the elderly or respiratory medicine
• Involvement in service improvement and change project management
• Involved in research

Skills

• Effective problem solving
• Can plan and deliver pharmaceutical care
• Able to negotiate and influence senior staff and multidisciplinary team
• Ability to build rapport with patients
• Effectively communicate both verbally and written patient treatment plans
• Able to teach and train others
• Staff management

Knowledge

• Broad clinical knowledge of medicines and pharmacology with ability to apply in practice
• Extensive delivery of pharmaceutical care to acute medical and surgical patients

Attributes

• Self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Good analytical and organisation ability
• Vision to improve self and services
• Able to adapt communication style to suit audienceDecisive, sound clinical judgement in a timely and confident manner

The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 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.

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