Pharmacist Advanced Endocrinology and Sustainability

Job summary

We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Endocrinology and who has an interest in sustainability who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist to work with the diabetes and endocrinology consultants, specialist nurses and clinical pharmacy team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused service to gastroenterology patients.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with Lead Clinicians and nurses in a truly MDT setting.

The ideal candidate will use their non-medical prescribing qualification to optimise individual patient's drug therapies as appropriate.

You will also be supported to develop their leadership and management skills.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Provide a high-profile lead role in the provision and development of pharmaceutical services to the diabetes and endocrinology department

Lead on the pharmacy sustainability agenda and work closely with the Chief Pharmacist on the ICB sustainability plan .

Develop and maintain a role as a non-medical prescriber (NMP).

Play an integral role in the multidisciplinary team that delivers a high quality clinical service to endocrinology patients within the Trust. This will include regular attendance of consultant-led ward rounds, independently prescribing to optimise individual patients' medicines and leading a team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to deliver an effective pharmacy service.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Relevant post registration experience in acute hospital pharmacy
• Experience of working in Endocrinology
• Supervision of staff
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in training and development of junior staff
• Proven experience of audit
• Experience in writing policies/guidelines/PGDs

Desirable

• Analysis and management of drug expenditure
• Presentations at local/regional level
• Experience prescribing in specialist area
• Quality, service and/or cost improvement projects and report writing
• Investigation of incidents and risk management
• Management of staff
• Tutoring of post graduate or foundation trainee pharmacists
• Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management

Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Masters Degree MPharm
• Registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist
• Evidence of CPD to maintain fitness to practice
• Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2)

Desirable

• Qualified and registered as a non-medical prescriber (or working towards completion of NMP qualification)

Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent general and endocrinology clinical knowledge
• Able to use clinical knowledge at senior level
• Specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialised area
• Knowledge of healthcare systems, guidance and NHS change
• Able to critically appraise research data
• Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists
• Confident user of Excel, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
• Good working knowledge of NHSE directives e.g. NICE and commissioning policies
• Clinical Governance

Skills

Essential

• High level of professionalism
• Wide ranging clinical skills
• Good communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to motivate others
• Able to negotiate with staff at all levels
• Able to use initiative and lead on clinical projects including audit, medicine switches and change management
• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Good organisational skills and ability to manage own time
• Able to work independently
• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
• Able to analyse and interpret a wide range of clinical and non-clinical information
• Able to cope with stress and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines
• Effective training skills and ability to teach a range of staff groups
• Good oral and written presentation skills
• Good problem solving skills
• Lateral thinker who is able to develop ideas

Other Requirements

Essential

• Professional attitude
• Enthusiastic, innovative and self-motivated
• Conscientious and reliable
• Able to be flexible and work as a team player
• Polite and courteous
• Able to demonstrate reflective practice
• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff

Role model our Trust values every day

Essential

• Include
• Respect
• Improve