Job summaryAre you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team? We would like to invite you to consider joining us in delivering our Pharmacy Vision of excellence with efficient, safe and compassionate care. You will be working with our enthusiastic and dynamic team in providing the best clinical service for patients by working closely with other healthcare professionals.An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacist with vision and leadership skills to join the Trust as part of the Critical Care team and lead on the trust formulary.The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced, capable with teaching and clinical skills. They will have good interpersonal, leadership and managerial skills. You should possess a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent; have hospital pharmacy experience in critical care.Main duties of the jobTo manage, deliver, develop and monitor the pharmacy critical care service in the Trust working along side the wider MDT.To develop and maintain the web based hospital formulary, netFormulary in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines informationTo provide training in critical care skills to clinical staff.To act as a trainee pharmacist tutor/ diploma mentor when requested by the E&T Lead.To co-ordinate and contribute to writing/checking pharmacy information bulletins.To be responsible for providing a highly specialist service to critical care by ensuring appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety/ governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines.Be responsible for advising in this area, managing drug budget and for leading, developing and evaluating the clinical pharmacy service provided to this area.Provide a regular ward pharmacy commitment and provide a safe, effective and efficient clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services including training and implementation of relevant policies and risk management initiatives.Provide support as requested to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicines management programme.Regularly lead on / initiates / contributes to relevant practice research or audit projects within the Pharmacy and to publish the results of such work, as appropriate.About usNMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesPlease see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.Person SpecificationQualifications and TrainingEssentialMRPharmS or equivalent and registered with GPhCCompletion of post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalentMandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practiceDesirableIndependent Non-Medical prescribing qualificationMember of the Royal Pharmaceutical SocietyManagement qualification or equivalent experienceKnowledgeEssentialRelevant Hospital ExperienceRelevant staff Management experienceCRC experienceAbility to manage and supervise staffLeading and Implementing changeAbility to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staffExperience of managing or advising on drug expenditureUnderstanding of Formulary & DUR and clinical trial issuesUnderstanding of risk management with medicines usage processDesirableProject Management ExperienceExperienceEssentialAbility to critically review services and ProcessesEffective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplaceAbility to work unsupervised and aloneManagement experienceIntegrate research evidence into practiceIdentify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles requiredUse of search engines/medical dataKnowledge of the requirements of national organisations involved in critical carebases to retrieve informationDesirableFormulary ExperienceExperience in carrying out Literature EvaluationsUnderstanding of risk management with medicines usage practiceSkillsEssentialAbility to work under pressureEffective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skillsAbility to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy maybe contentious or complexAbility to innovate and implement changeAbility to carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysisComputer literateAbility to lead serviceAbility to motivate, influence and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team and management.Ability to work with the colleagues as part of a teamAbility to resolve conflictAbility to monitor service provision and use performance indicators pro-activelyDemonstrate analytical and reasoning skillsOther attributesEssentialFlexibility with regard to changes in work ScheduleAble to work flexible and unsocial hours including Late duties , Weekend duties and bank holidays as rosteredAble to do participate in out of hours serviceEnthusiasmAwareness of Equal OpportunitiesValuesEssentialDemonstrable ability to meet Trust valuesDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameNorth Middlesex University Hospital NHS TrustAddressNorth Middlesex University Hospital NHS TrustSterling WayLondonN18 1QXEmployer's websitehttps://www.northmid.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)