An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to continue our work within integrated neighbourhood teams to optimise medicines for people living with multiple long term conditions including cardiovascular, renal and metabolic disease across South East London. The role will work collaboratively with primary and secondary care colleagues to create a person-centred, holistic integrated model of care for people with multiple long-term conditions to improve patient experience, change ways of working, improve outcomes and increase efficiencies.
The role will work across South East London for the first year with a primary focus within Lambeth and Southwark boroughs thereafter.
This post will lead on medicines optimisation and support integration of services and pathways across the interface for people living with multiple long term conditions.
The successful candidate will:
- have significant experience as a specialist clinical practitioner in multiple long term conditions including chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes
- be able to demonstrate a commitment to patient care
- act as a role model in the cardio-renal metabolic field
- be able to demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and senior leadership level
- be able to demonstrate experience of service development and improvement across a system wide multi-disciplinary environment
- have excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills
- be able to demonstrate the ability to work innovatively
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts, providing specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Organisational Values:
Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.
The post holder will be:
Caring put patients first
Ambitious innovate and strive for excellence
Inclusive respect each other and work collaboratively
In liaison with the Consultant Pharmacist for Diabetes and Consultant Pharmacist, renal and transplant and under the accountability of the Chief Pharmacist, the post holder will work across boundaries with a focus on multiple long term conditions (LTCs), including CVRM within neighbourhood teams in South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) to:
B e a role model and national expert in one or more of CVRM pharmacy field; they will accept case referrals and provide expert opinion on medicines issues to primary, intermediate and secondary care clinicians where appropriate. They will undertake research and ensure a consistently high clinical service is provided to patients
Develop strategic intentions, and stakeholder engagement to establish clear priorities for service transformation for the management of multiple LTCs within Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs).
Work in a collaborative manner as part of neighbourhood teams including secondary care and pharmacy departments as well as South East London Integrated Care Board medicines team, primary care networks and LTC teams to enable the delivery of safe, effective and informed medicines optimisation in the context of patient care pathways
Use clinical and change management skills to undertake and implement care pathway redesign including provision of an overview of medicines usage and transfer of care issues across multiple patient pathways (and multiple providers and commissioners)
Monitor, interpret and predict drug expenditure against budget
Work with the Consultant Pharmacists and lead education and development in medicines management for the multidisciplinary team
Provide expert advice to INTs including GPs, clinicians and managers to ensure that national guidance and best practice underpin and medicines usage and ensure compliance with the legal framework governing medicines use to ensure patient safety
The role will work across SEL for the first year with a primary focus on Lambeth and Southwark boroughs thereafter.
See the JD and PS for more details and the full range of duties
