Principal Pharmacist - Renal Medicine

Main area: Pharmacy
Grade Band: 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day and Bank Holiday working applies)
Job ref: 213-CAY-6774307-A
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £70,387 - £80,465 per annum, including HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/12/2024 23:59
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.
The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overviewKing's Renal Unit is a busy tertiary referral centre, renowned for its high standards.
The unit provides:
specialist inpatient care to patients with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease and end stage renal failureoutpatient care, plasma exchange, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis servicesThe successful candidate will lead the renal pharmacy service including both inpatient and outpatient care at the Denmark Hill site and will be responsible for onsite and satellite dialysis units, situated across South East London.
This post will offer the opportunity to gain significant experience in service development to ensure that renal therapies are prescribed safely and medicines optimisation opportunities are realised.
The post holder will play an active role in developing and monitoring treatment pathways with colleagues across South East London.
Candidates must have excellent interpersonal, communication, organisational and leadership skills.
They will need to be highly motivated and be able to demonstrate initiative and enthusiasm to develop the renal pharmacy service while providing high quality, evidence-based, clinically led care to patients while improving processes for managing patients on long-term therapies.
Previous experience of renal medicine is essential.
The role is based within the Pharmacy department at the Denmark Hill site but the post-holder will be expected to attend the satellite dialysis units located across South East London.
Main duties of the jobThe post holder leads, delivers, develops, manages and evaluates the clinical pharmacy services to the Renal Care Group.
The focus of the post is on ensuring the provision of high quality, safe, comprehensive (clinical, supply, financial and operational) pharmaceutical services to the care group.
The post holder is expected to:
Act as a specialist role model and as an expert in the clinical field and demonstrating an advanced level of knowledge in the field of renal medicine.Ensuring the safe, efficacious and cost-effective use of drugs within the Care Group.Ensuring a high level of clinical input across the Care Group.Development and implementation of guidelines and policies for the use of drugs.Regular financial reporting, drug usage and expenditure forecasting.Developing the pharmacy service to the Care Group.Identifying a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services to the Care Group.Working for our organisationKing's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London.
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites.
The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.
In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.
Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible. Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesPlease refer to the job description for further information around the main duties and responsibilities:
Clinical ResponsibilitiesPeople Management and PerformanceResearch and Service DevelopmentPerson specificationQualificationsRegistered Pharmacist MRPharmS (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration)Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy PracticeRegistered independent prescriber or willingness to completeSkills and ExperienceExpert clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practiceDemonstrate high organisational skills - identifying, planning, organising and developing systems to improve service deliveryExperience of supervising others, including for research and audit projectsExperience of protocol/guideline developmentAbility to work well under pressure by prioritising and managing time effectivelyAbility to implement and manage changeAbility to motivate self and othersAble to identify a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services to the Care GroupDemonstrates an advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgementDemonstrates an awareness and commitment to the clinical governance agendaExperience of managing othersExperience of working with senior healthcare professionals outside of pharmacyDemonstration of advanced practice using evidence mapped to the RPS Advanced Practice FrameworkIMPORTANT Check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with youIf you delete the job from any of your accounts, you may be prevented from accessing further communicationsTo enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances, please contact the named person on this advertPlease provide email addresses for referees where possiblePlease review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust's criminal records checking policyAll staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.Please note that the closing date is given as a guide.
On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received.
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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.
Name: Nicola Torrens
Job title: Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services
Email address: ******
Telephone number: 02032999000
Alternative contacts:
Nicola Torrens (Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services) 02032999000 extension: 39885 or via email: ******
Caroline Cheng (Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services) via email: ******

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