Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Young People
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 395-BD186-24
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Child and Family Centre
- Town
- Barking
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 plus HCAS per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Children and Young People
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
We are excited to be able to offer a post for an experienced pharmacist to work with our children and young people’s services in Barking and Dagenham.
This post would appeal to those who are ambitious and would like to develop their service development and leadership skills in a supportive environment. The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Lead Nurse andÌý consultant pharmacists in NELFT as part of a multidisciplinary team, addressing the needs of service users.
The post holder will be responsible for managing patients across Barking and Dagenham as part of the Emotional Wellbeing Mental Health Services (EWMHS), 0-19 and neurodevelopmental services to children and young people in the geography.
Successful applicants will be required to ensure safe and effective medicines management processes within the Barking and Dagenham Directorate in addition to other duties specified within their job description. This will include compliance with regulatory medicines management standards, implementation of medicines safety alerts, and provision of specialist expert pharmaceutical information and advice to multidisciplinary teams (e.g., nurses, school nurses, health visitors and consultants) particularly within children and young people services and where applicable to others involved in a patient’s care
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Main duties of the job
- Take the senior clinical pharmacist lead role for children and young people services across the Barking and Dagenham integrated care directorate.
- Cover some adult/specialist services, but its focus is on children and young people’s services.Ìý
- Provide specialist expert pharmaceutical information and advice to multidisciplinary teams (e.g., nurses, school nurses, health visitors and consultants) particular within children and young people services and where applicable to others involved in a patient’s care.
- Lead on and provide complex medicines management advice and specialist direction as well as regular clinical pharmacy input into children respite/residential facilities.
- Focus on outcomes delivering improved benefits and value for patients through improved patient experience, increased patient safety, medication reviews, and mitigating of risks related to medicines.
- Support and contribute to clinical audits.
- Develop and deliver the pharmacy relevant training packages to assist medical, nursing and pharmacy staff across their area.
- Work with quality and patient safety teams to review quality and risk management issues related to pharmacy and medicine management.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationaryÌý period or currently a bank member of staff).Ìý
High Cost Area Supplement - London
This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.Ìý
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
The post holder must possess excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), have strong clinical and organisational skills and be able to effect change.Ìý They need to be able to work independently, be self driven and highly motivated. The primary role of the post holder will be to progress services for our community services within the Trust, supporting the Chief Pharmacist and Consultant Pharmacists in developing and implementing the Trust Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation strategy in the children and young people (CYP) specialist area.
The post holder will be expected to have current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, Clinical Pharmacy and/or Psychiatric Therapeutics (up to diploma level) postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience, and significant post registration experience in a mental health setting.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GPHC registration
- Clinical diploma or equivalent
- Non-medical prescriber (V300)
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent literacy and numeracy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 5 years post-registration experience, with 2 yrs relevant as clinical pharmacist working in MDT
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Awareness and experience of safeguarding children
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in mental health services
- Expereince of wokring in more than one health care setting
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates the Trust values
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Demonstrates leadership skills
- Computer skills (microsoft office etc)
- Awarenes of safeguarding policies
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Denise Edwards
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976427966
- Additional information
Rizwana Dudhia
Lead Pharmacist for Learning Disabilities and Autism
07590806024
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