Lead Pharmacist – Immunotherapy Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Lead Pharmacist to work in Jersey on a full-time basis.

The salary for this permanent Lead Pharmacist job is £67,874 – £74,599 per annum.

Duties:

• Act as the lead for Pharmacy services and medicines optimisation in Immunotherapy. Assure and provide effective supervision and continuous improvement of, Immunotherapy services to a national standard, and participate in delivery
• Plan, provide, develop, and share in delivering, an effective, timely and patient focussed specialist pharmacy service in Immunotherapy
• Promoting safe, economical and evidenced based use of medicines
• Maintain, develop and implement systems of good practice to ensure that the service complies with legislation and current standards, with particular reference to competence and audit
• Work with other clinical staff on the wards/departments to identify opportunities to enhance systems and/or modernise practice, and to act as the link in planning and implementing this
• Assure compliance with medicines management policies, current legislation and local, regional or national standards and guidance
• Monitor, audit and report on medicines management in Immunotherapy, including drug use, prescribing and expenditure trends, and clinical governance issues, and make appropriate recommendations to support improvements in these areas
• Develop and support implementation of systems for providing assurance of adherence to NICE guidance and Technology Appraisals for patients receiving Immunotherapy and other high-cost medicines
• Undertake horizon scanning work, including consideration of biological switches, to support budget forecasting
• Work collaboratively across the Dermatology, Gastroenterology, and Rheumatology Multi- Disciplinary Teams supporting the provision of an integrated clinical pharmacy service to these areas

Requirements of the Lead Pharmacist:

• Vocational (four year) master’s degree in pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (obtained by completing one-year post- graduate pre-registration training with final examination)
• Post-graduate MSc or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Independent prescribing qualification
• Specialist knowledge of therapeutics of common disease states and frequently used therapeutic regimes
• Well-developed knowledge of pharmaceutical technical and clinical procedures acquired through training and experience
• Knowledge of checking dispensed prescriptions and supervising staff within the Pharmacy
• Post-registration experience in hospital practice, including experience in clinical pharmacy practice
• Completed comprehensive rotations in hospital pharmacy
• Experience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team

Contact:

This Lead Pharmacist job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Global Healthcare Jobstakes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobsis best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.