Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Emergency and Acute Medicine

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust • Full-time • United Kingdom, England, London • £53.70k - £59.80k / year • 3w ago

This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our ward based clinical pharmacy services. In this key post you will be working as part of an established multidisciplinary team and be responsible for providing a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to our ED and Admissions wards.

The post holder will work closely with the Pharmacy Lead - Emergency and Acute Medicine, Pharmacy Lead - Clinical Services, Deputy Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Directors to monitor and control the drug use within Emergency and Acute Medicine. They will lead on the strategic development of the pharmacy clinical and ward based services and lead on reducing risks associated with medicines within

As an enthusiastic and patient oriented pharmacist, you will combine expert opinion and expert practice at the bedside to benefit patient care, and work at the forefront within the multidisciplinary team to help us implement, deliver and continually improve medicines management. Overall, you will be responsible for optimizing medicines prescribed on admission, make timely pharmaceutical interventions and facilitate rapid discharge; thereby facilitating high quality patient outcomes whilst ensuring patient safety.

This position offers the opportunity to build on your management experience and specialise in ED and Admissions. You will need excellent communication, interpersonal and time management skills and will need to enjoy working as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will need post-registration experience relevant to hospital pharmacy and will have the Post Graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification.

The London North West Hospitals NHS Trust consists of Northwick Park andSt Mark’shospitals in Harrow, Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, and Ealing Hospital. Between Northwick Park, St Mark’s and Central Middlesex Hospitals we care for more than half a million people living across Brent and Harrow as well as patients from all over the country and internationally atSt Mark’s, our specialist hospital for bowel diseases. This makes us one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the capital.

The Pharmacy Department offers comprehensive pharmaceutical services across site including a well-respected clinical pharmacy service supported by a dedicated TDM pharmacist, specialist clinical pharmacists and a well-equipped Medicines Information centre integrated into the Regional Medicines Information Centre. A large licensed ‘specials’ manufacturing unit complements these services

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