Lead Specialist Pharmacist, Homecare & IBD

• Lead the development and delivery of a specialist Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) pharmacy service across the Trust, working closely with primary and secondary care providers to optimise patient outcomes.
• Provide expert advice on the prescribing, monitoring and optimisation of biologics, biosimilars, small molecules, immunomodulators and other therapies used in IBD.
• Lead pharmacist-led outpatient clinics to initiate treatment, assess treatment response, safety, adherence and therapeutic optimisation.
• Oversee and coordinate pharmaceutical care for patients with IBD across inpatient, outpatient and day-unit settings.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

Essential

• Master's degree in Pharmacy
• Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma Pharmacy Practice
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice

Desirable

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Evidence of formal management training.
• Independent prescriber within Inflammatory Bowel Disease and biologics

Essential

• Significant clinical experience in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and high cost drugs.
• Excellent knowledge of commissioning and specialist medicine.
• Experience of managing a small team.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking.
• Experience of identifying training needs and delivering education and training programmes for all clinical staff groups.
• Evidence of evaluating own and pharmacy staff's work to drive and deliver improvements in service quality.
• Excellent ability to manage change within the pharmacy department and within medical and nursing teams to drive service improvements.

Desirable

• Evidence of collaborative regional work.
• Experience of delivering research projects and influencing changes in practice.
• Evidence of managing and developing a pharmacy service or section

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise, persuade and influence the executive team, senior managers, and senior clinical staff.
• Ability to manage services provided by homecare by rigorous review and the ability to identify and manage risks.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills (oral and written).
• Demonstrate excellent problem solving skills and demonstrates the integration of research evidence into practice.
• IT literate, including use of spreadsheets to capture and manipulate data, search for evidence-based practice.
• Excellent ability to prioritise a complex workload and work accurately under pressure.

Desirable

• Excel skills