This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) services. In this key post you will be working as part of an established multidisciplinary team and be responsible for providing a high quality pharmacy service with IBD.
The successful candidate will be expected to work Monday – Friday and participate in weekend (Saturday and Sundays) and Bank Holiday rotas.
As an enthusiastic, patient-centred Pharmacist, you will combine expert clinical knowledge with exemplary professional practice to enhance patient care and support the continued development of our Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) service.
Working at the forefront of the IBD multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will play a key role in implementing, delivering, and continuously improving medicines optimisation and management for patients with IBD. Your responsibilities will include medicines reconciliation, promoting and undertaking medication reviews, and supporting the discharge process to facilitate high-quality patient outcomes. Through these activities, you will help reduce prescribing errors, optimise treatment, and ensure patient safety.
The London North West Hospitals NHS Trust consists of Northwick Park and St Mark’s hospitals in Harrow, Central Middlesex Hospital in Park Royal, and Ealing Hospital. Between Northwick Park, St Mark’s and Central Middlesex Hospitals we care for more than half a million people living across Brent and Harrow as well as patients from all over the country and internationally at St Mark’s , our specialist hospital for bowel diseases. This makes us one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the capital.
The Pharmacy Department offers comprehensive pharmaceutical services across site including a well-respected clinical pharmacy service supported by a dedicated TDM pharmacist, specialist clinical pharmacists and a well-equipped Medicines Information centre integrated into the Regional Medicines Information Centre. A large licensed ‘specials’ manufacturing unit complements these services.
We are a department that believe in equipping our Band 7 Pharmacists with skills to carry out senior roles to aid their career progression. Posts have been developed to ensure leadership roles are key with a high emphasis on delivering teaching and training to a wide range of healthcare professionals as well as managing teams. You will be able to develop senior roles and responsibilities and we encourage individuals to take on any new responsibilities to meet their development needs.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information on the key responsibilities and person requirements for this role.
