Specialist Pharmacist - ICU, Anaesthetics and Pain

Job description

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Ready for a new and rewarding challenge?

We're seeking a motivated and dedicated Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic team delivering high-quality pharmacy services across Critical Care, Theatres, and Pain Services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

In this pivotal role, you'll work closely with lead pharmacists and a multidisciplinary team across multiple sites, supporting a diverse patient population. Alongside developing your clinical expertise, you'll also have the opportunity to grow your leadership and management skills through:

• Active participation in multidisciplinary ward and board rounds, promoting safe, effective, and patient-centred prescribing and medicines use.
• Involvement in clinical audits, research, and service evaluation.
• Supporting the design and implementation of new pharmacy services, guidelines, and policies.
• Assisting Lead Pharmacists and Divisions in managing medication expenditure.
• Contributing to the education, training, and supervision of pharmacy, medical, and nursing staff.

Our Trust hosts three major Intensive Therapy Units (ITUs) across St Mary's, Hammersmith, and Charing Cross Hospitals, with approximately 95 beds and care provided to nearly 1,700 patients annually.

If you're passionate about innovation, collaboration, and delivering exceptional care, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a high quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service to critical care patients.
• Ensure the safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs.
• Identify and promote best practice.
• Actively contribute to the management of drug expenditure through analysis and reporting.
• Actively contribute to the management of Payment by Results (PBR) excluded drugs.
• Assist in incident reporting, investigation and implementation of actions/changes where needed.
• Assist with managing supply problems.
• Actively contribute to the development and monitoring of policies and guidelines.
• Carry out audits as required.
• Undertake training of other pharmacists on aspects of critical care.
• Undertake education and training to the pharmacy department, ICU nurses, ICU medical staff, theatres staff as required.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environme