Job Description

Job Title: Specialist Pharmacist - Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Division: Unplanned & Integrated Care

Band: 8a

Salary: £50,952 - £57,349 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: Week Commencing 6th June 2023

We are recruiting for aSpecialist Pharmacist - Gastroenterology and Hepatology who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

The post holder will be the Specialist Pharmacist for the Gastroenterology and hepatitis C service at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will be the department lead for all activity relating to Gastroenterology and Hepatitis C prescribing as part of the King’s Hepatitis C Operational Delivery Network (ODN). They will be a role model, working to a high level within the pharmacy department.

Specialist Pharmacists are expected to have a key leadership role, acting as a role model for others. They will communicate and maintain excellent working relationships with all those that use, commission and work within the services delivered.

Join our pharmacy department and you will work as part of an innovative and well respected team within the Trust. You will have the opportunity to contribute to transformational changes leading to better care for our patients and better experience for our staff. Here within pharmacy, we have a strong and forward thinking senior leadership team and our transformational work has been presented at national and regional events, most recently at the Health Education England regional Workforce and Quality day.

Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today. Full training will be provided.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

To be responsible for providing and overseeing the pharmacy clinical service provided to the gastroenterology/endocrinology wards within the hospital

Carry out education and counselling of new patients at the start of direct acting anti-viral therapy (DAA) for hepatitis C.

Ensures the provision of a proactive, high quality, cost effective, safe and responsive service to gastroenterology and hepatology.

To actively develop the gastroenterology and hepatitis C pharmacy service, exploring opportunities for clinically advanced services, such as review of patients in clinic.

To provide a clinical ward pharmacy service to the gastroenterology wards and lead on the education and training of other members of pharmacy and MDT in the pharmaceutical management of these patients.

Check the clinical accuracy and appropriateness of prescriptions for patients

Ensure funding is in place for patients prior to the supply of DAA medications.

To ensure the appropriate ordering of medicines for gastroenterology and hepatitis C to ensure medicines are available for patients and to minimise wastage from unused or expired medicines.

To provide expert pharmacist support to the Trust’s hepatitis C/gastroenterology clinics with the specialist CNS.

Attend a weekly MDT with the hepatitis C team, providing expert pharmaceutical advice.

To actively lead on biologic switches for gastroenterology to ensure CIPs and gain share savings where appropriate are realised.

To support with leadership of the homecare department in the absence of the Lead Homecare pharmacist and with the screening of Homecare prescriptions, especially but not exclusively with the screening of gastroenterology and hepatology patients.

Prescribing for hepatitis C patients in clinic and following the recommendations of the MDT.

To be the pharmacy department liaison with the wider MDT for gastroenterology and hepatitis C.

To identify and implement opportunities for the efficient use of medicines in gastroenterology and hepatology.

To support with the late night, weekend and bank holiday rota as part of the department’s 7 day services.

To develop a personal audit and research portfolio within heptatitis C, gastroenterology or pharmacy practice.

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