Outpatient Optimisation Pharmacist

Site University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street (formerly the Heart Hospital) Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAS, pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/04/:59

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Job overview An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with excellent clinical and interpersonal skills to support a high-quality service to the Surgical Specialist Division based at Westmoreland Street. As the post is part time and there will be an opportunity for flexible working, but which needs to help support the Andrology team within the Urology Division and rest of the Pharmacy team.

Over recent years the challenges for outpatient services have increased, with a growing backlog in all services, despite some of the highest service activity across London. Increased capacity tied to transformation is vital to reduce the growing waiting list.
As a senior clinical pharmacist, you will be responsible for supporting your Division in ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. As a centre of excellence, you will offer a person-centred approach towards patients' treatment.

The successful candidate will be joining the largest and most prestigious Urological Department in the UK. We are a highly specialist department seeing referrals from across the UK and abroad as well as being a center for excellence and research, you will have an opportunity to contribute to service development and quality improvement projects within the Urology Services Division.

Main duties of the job This new role will:

1. Set up triage for new GP ED referrals and give advice on medication to GPs on first line treatments, diverting significant number of referrals that could be managed in primary care.
2. Provide guidance to GPs and patients about their eligibility for future treatments.
3. Work with the operational team and NCL ICB on procurement and prescription process for vacuum pump devices.
4. Aim to standardise post prostatectomy erectile dysfunction pathways and identify workforce needed due to increase in robotic prostatectomies at UCLH.
5. Support operational team with demand and capacity modelling and workforce review, and how the changes to the service will be maintained after this trial period.

You will work as part of the Surgical Speciality multidisciplinary team (MDT), delivering the highest quality service for both inpatients and outpatients, working closely with the Urology consultants, clinical fellows, clinical nurse specialists, managers and other healthcare professionals.

Your duties will include collaborating closely with Andrology team within the Urology Division and providing specialist advice to optimise patient care. You will use your independent prescribing skills in both the inpatient and outpatient setting to optimise the prescribing of specialist or supportive medications.

Working for our organisation University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

1. University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
2. National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
3. Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
4. University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
5. Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
6. University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
7. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
8. University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities The department offers comprehensive care for the whole spectrum of Urology services and is split into 6 sub-groups, the teams work together closely along with Outpatients at Westmoreland St. Where possible, you will work to develop and enhance our existing systems, particularly where efficiency and productivity can be improved through our Electronic Health Records System, EPIC.

Additional management and leadership responsibilities for the Surgical Speciality will include governance, medicines expenditure analysis and reporting, audit and service evaluation, multi-professional education and training, and other strategic projects as required. You will also represent the UCLH Pharmacy Department at directorate and divisional clinical governance meetings.

You will work as part of our broader clinical pharmacy team and contribute to local and national initiatives to develop and enhance the pharmacy service. You will also contribute to the delivery of educational and developmental programmes, including the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.

Person specification Qualifications, knowledge & competence

• Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
• Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Minimum of five years' experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
• Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy
• Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses

Management & leadership skills

• Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
• Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues

Clinical & interpersonal skills

• Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects
• Demonstrable use of clinical audit and quality improvement to improve practice
• Previous experience in delivering education and training within pharmacy
• Identifies and meets own training needs
• Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
• Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
• Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
• Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in acute medicine
• Maintains a portfolio of practice
• Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
• Integrates research evidence into practice

At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

At UCLH we take equality of opportunity seriously and are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer, with a culture that creates a real sense of belonging and trust. It is our fundamental aim, to recruit, retain and promote a diverse mix of people who are representative of our local communities. Applications are encouraged from candidates of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to support our world class research, innovation and creativity.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment. For more information please go to: .

We offer our permanent staff an interest free season ticket loan for travel, all our staff have access to free independent and confidential support, large retail discounts, a staff discount platform, cycle to work scheme and on-site accommodation to name a few.

Additionally, UCLH Arts and Heritage's staff wellbeing programme, Creative Comfort, offers a variety of ways to engage with the arts as a member of UCLH staff. You can try out the weekly choir, weekly art club and join the Culture Club for exclusive access to free and discounted tickets for opera, exhibitions, theatre and more.

We recognise, reward and thank colleagues by nominating them for our annual Celebrating Excellence Awards, which are funded by UCLH Charity.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

Please note that if you are at present in a training position on the 2016 new junior doctor's contract and are applying for a Trust doctor role your salary will not be pay protected.

You will be placed on the appropriate point of the Trust Doctor pay scale based on your previous experience.
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