Specialist Pharmacist, Homecare Services | Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

This is an exciting part-time role (18.75 hours per week) and requires an innovative individual who will be responsible for progressing the Pharmacy department’s Homecare Service as part of a team. It is for a 12-month fixed term contract. You will have the characteristics of a self-motivated, dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking individual with excellent communication skills, a background in acute hospital pharmacy service provision such that you can provide leadership and clinical expertise to support the existing Pharmacy Homecare Service.There will be opportunities to lead, undertake and publish research as part of an innovative Pharmacy team.Working closely with our consultants and nurses in rheumatology and metabolic bone disease amongst other teams, you will:

Provide clinical leadership and expertise for Pharmacy Homecare consultations and homecare queries

Maintain clinical knowledge in areas where the supply of medicines is available via the homecare route, with particular focus of new therapies and changes in clinical use of existing therapies and local treatment protocols

Coordinate processes for the introduction of homecare services for new medicines, including the development and implementation of local policies, in liaison with the procurement team and homecare providers

Lead the development and review of homecare service SLAs, service specifications, prescription forms and patient information

Participate in service review meetings between multidisciplinary clinical teams and homecare providers in relation to specific homecare service level agreements, and provide specialist pharmacy input to ensure compliance with professional, clinical and operational standards

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details of duties and responsibilities.Key relationships include:

Medical Director (and their Deputy)

Director of Nursing (and their Deputy)

Deputy Director of Quality

Chief Pharmacist (and their Deputy)

Senior Pharmacy Managers

Rheumatology and Metabolic Bone MDTs

Quality and Patient Experience Department

Quality Improvement Team

Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Team

Pharmacy Department

All other healthcare professionals, especially medical and nursing staff

Patients and their carers

Finance Department

NCL Medicines Optimisation Network

Other NHS organisations

Commissioners – ICB and NHSE

Homecare Service Providers

External customers/providers

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