This Lead Pharmacist post sits in the paediatric pharmacy team at St Mary's Hospital, within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, covering haematology. The work centres on clinical pharmacy for children with haemoglobinopathies, spanning stem cell transplantation and the gene therapy service, along with medicines governance, cost-effective prescribing and training other pharmacists. It is a senior role that includes deputising for the Senior Lead Pharmacist and checking anti-cancer and conditioning therapies. Applicants need paediatric SACT accreditation, and stem cell transplant training can be supported.
What the job involves
- Lead, deliver and develop clinical pharmacy for children in haematology, including stem cell transplant and autologous gene therapy patients, as the paediatric pharmaceutical care expert
- Develop the haemoglobinopathies gene therapy service
- Lead and deliver pharmacy services for apheresis of patients undergoing stem cell collection
- Check and verify SACT and conditioning cytotoxic therapies
- Provide a comprehensive ward clinical pharmacy service within children's services, and clinical and specialist support to the outpatient pharmacy partnership
- Work with the Senior Lead Pharmacist Paediatrics and other Lead Pharmacists to develop services and care for stem cell transplant patients
- Develop, review and monitor clinical guidelines, procedures and PGDs, aligned to EBMT/JACIE requirements
- Support safe, efficient, cost-effective drug use, medicines governance and prescribing, and generate ideas for drug expenditure savings
- Train and teach pharmacists and the wider team, and support and develop rotational band 7 pharmacists
- Get involved in risk management, audit and quality improvement
- Support new drug applications
- Deputise for the Senior Lead Pharmacist and other Leads when needed
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy practice or equivalent
- BOPA SACT passport accreditation in paediatrics, or equivalent experience
Registration & licences
- Active registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
- Post-registration training and substantial experience in paediatric hospital pharmacy
- Experience in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice, including medicines information, ward services and dispensing
- Experience in haematology/oncology, stem cell transplantation and cytotoxic verification (stem cell training can be supported)
- Multi-disciplinary ward round experience
- Experience with high cost drugs and NHS England commissioning, such as Blueteq
Skills & knowledge
- Working under pressure and making clinical decisions with limited information
- Influencing senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and senior management
- Computer literacy, including Microsoft Office applications
- Analysing drug usage reports and providing useful insight from them
Other
- Undertakes continuing professional development and maintains a CPD portfolio
- Motivated, enthusiastic and keen to develop advanced practice skills
Nice to have
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society or Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group membership
- Non-medical prescriber annotation with the GPhC
- UK BMT passport accreditation
- Management or leadership qualifications, and demonstrated leadership skills
- Previous experience managing staff and conducting appraisals
- Financial reporting and management of clinical medicines expenditure
- Paediatric TPN and aseptics experience
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, practice research and communicating best practice inside and outside the organisation
What’s offered
- Strong support for education and training
- Career development and opportunities to broaden experience
- Flexible working and wellbeing support
- Staff recognition scheme
- Optional Cycle to Work scheme
- Optional car lease scheme
- Optional season ticket loan
- Optional membership of onsite leisure facilities
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