Band 8a Lead Pharmacist ILD – at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Salary: £52,643- 58,558 pa
Location: Trustwide, London
Fast forward your pharmacy career at Imperial. With five world-renowned hospitals, we have an opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and forward thinking pharmacist to work with our Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Department.
The ILD service diagnoses and treats patients with interstitial lung disease. Our ILD service is one of 14 nationally specialist commissioned services in England. As the successful candidate you will support the ILD service by managing your own patient caseload, reviewing patients’ medicines in both patient facing and telephone ILD clinics.
You will also contribute to Multidisciplinary Team meetings as well as providing clinical & directorate support relating to medicines prescribed in ILD. You will also manage the ILD advice line and email inbox for patients, HCP queries & primary / secondary interface issues. A good understanding of the PbR excluded drugs process is required as you will be expected to monitor & manage funding applications for PbR excluded drugs within the specialty. As well as the patient facing part of the role, you will contribute to education & training events and represent Imperial at Pharmacy ILD network events.
You will be self-motivated and organised with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will need to be able to develop effective working relationships with a wide range of professionals. You will need good IT skills and be able to work with many different IT programs & databases.
Applicants should be a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. You should have a postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent experiential learning. Ideally you will have a non- medical prescribing qualification.
At Imperial you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people. You’ll be working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant pharmacy team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early should we receive 50 applications prior to the advertised closing date. Please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will aim to consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.
Interviews are likely to be 6th May 2021.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Simone Brackenborough
Email: address simone.brackenborough@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0203 312 5258
