Highly Specialist - Antimicrobial and Infection Control Pharmacist

Job overview

Barts Health Pharmacy Department are looking for a motivated individual who is ambitious and forward-thinking with clinical experience in antimicrobials to join our Pharmacy team at Newham University Hospital. This post is a fixed term post to cover a 12 month maternity leave period. The Trust is one of the largest and busiest in the UK and at the leading edge of medicine. It provides a full range of local and tertiary hospital services across its different sites.

The post holder will be supporting the Clinical Services Manager in leading a team of staff in promoting high quality, cost-effective and safe prescribing.  They will lead on the provision of Antimicrobial services to the Newham University Hospital site.

The post holder will participate in the education and training for staff in the pharmacy team at Barts Health and will assist in the provision and development of clinical pharmacy within the service.

You will be supported to further develop your abilities as a senior leader via a combination of internal and external training programmes, alongside developing your clinical acumen.

We welcome applications from individuals with excellent communications skills who demonstrate a patient-centred focus and compassionate and collaborative leadership. You will require excellent prioritisation skills and have a passion for service review and quality improvement.

Main duties of the job

Roles and responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Lead for antimicrobial stewardship and Infection control at Newham University Hospital, co-ordinating rounds and attendance at MDT meeting to optimise antimicrobial usage and support pathway for OPAT.
• Optimisation of medicine use in individual patients
• Close working with the multidisciplinary antimicrobial and Infection control team and wider pharmacy team to optimise patient flow
• Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to patients receiving or being considered for OPAT. (This includes evaluating medication of individual patients for interactions, duplication etc, using medicines information and research findings to manage therapeutic problems, reduce risks and advise other healthcare professionals).
• Provide specialist advice to patients, medical and multidisciplinary care teams on antimicrobial treatment by attending ward rounds or the OPAT MDT meeting as deemed appropriate.
• To develop and implement formulary guidance, based on the available evidence
• To proactively support the team in identifying and delivering medication-related cost- improvement plans
• To ensure the safe transfer of prescribing and monitoring as patients are transferred between care settings.
• To support the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager in achieving Pharmacy Quality Performance Targets

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.