clinical pharmacist London, England
Job description
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join the pharmacy team at Barnet Hospital. You will be leading, delivering and developing a high-quality pharmacy service to North London Hospice, in close partnership and support from the Royal Free hospital pharmacy team. This will require you to work closely with the multidisciplinary palliative care team.
The principal role of this post holder is to lead on the management and provision of a comprehensive, high quality pharmacy service to patients requiring palliative care at the North London Hospice, and to patients receiving treatment at the Royal Free London.
The principal role of this post holder is to lead on the management and provision of a comprehensive, high quality pharmacy service to patients requiring palliative care at the North London Hospice, and to patients receiving treatment at the Royal Free London. The post holder will lead on the provision of education to healthcare professionals in all pharmaceutical aspects of palliative care services.
The post holder will be responsible for leading on the development of policies, guidelines, audits, research and promoting cost effective use of drugs. Working with senior clinicians and managers, the post holder will help to manage the hospice budget, ensuring the cost-effective use of medicines through new drug evaluations, financial reporting, and adherence to protocols and policies.
The post holder will identify areas where improvements in both the quality and cost effectiveness of pharmaceutical care and prescribing may be encouraged.
To work with all senior staff in specialist palliative care to review and develop policies
and procedures to ensure the safe and effective handling of medication at the hospice.
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This large scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients. Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
The Pharmacy department Barnet Hospital is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do.
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
