Lead Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention Pharmacist (CVD & diabetes)

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 12-month fixed term role for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to continue our work within integrated neighbourhood teams to optimise medicines for people living with cardio-renal metabolic conditions across South East London. The project is a collaboration between primary and secondary care colleagues to create a person-centred, holistic integrated model of care for people with multiple long-term conditions to improve patient experience, change ways of working, improve outcomes and increase efficiencies.

This post is one of two roles hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust however will work across primary and secondary care sites across South East London.

This post will lead on medicines optimisation and support integration of services and pathways across the interface for renal, diabetes and cardiovascular specialties.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• have significant experience as a specialist clinical practitioner in chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes
• be able to demonstrate a commitment to patient care
• act as a role model in the cardio-renal metabolic field
• be able to demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and senior leadership level
• be able to demonstrate experience of service development and improvement across a system wide multi-disciplinary environment
• have excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills
• be able to demonstrate the ability to work innovatively

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In liaison with the Consultant Pharmacist for Diabetes and Consultant Pharmacist, renal and transplant and under the accountability of the Chief Pharmacist, the post holder will work across boundaries with renal, diabetes and cardiovascular services in Guy’s and St. Thomas’, King’s, Lewisham, primary care networks and South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) to:

• Be a role model and national expert in one or more of renal, cardiovascular or diabetes pharmacy field; they will accept case referrals and provide expert opinion on medicines issues to primary, intermediate and secondary care clinicians where appropriate. They will undertake research and ensure a consistently high clinical service is provided to patients
• Develop South East London (SEL) strategic intentions, and stakeholder engagement to establish clear priorities for service transformation in the field of renal, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
• Work in a collaborative manner as part of Guys and St Thomas’, King’s, Lewisham renal, diabetes cardiovascular and pharmacy departments as well as South East London Integrated Care Board medicines, primary care networks and LTC teams to enable the delivery of safe, effective and informed medicines optimisation in the context of patient care pathways
• Use clinical and change management skills to undertake and implement care pathway redesign including provision of an overview of medicines usage and transfer of care issues across multiple patient pathways (and multiple providers and commissioners)
• Monitor, interpret and predict drug expenditure against budget
• Work with the Consultant Pharmacists and lead education and development in medicines management for the multidisciplinary team
• Provide expert advice to GPs, clinicians and managers to ensure that national guidance and best practice underpin and medicines usage and ensure compliance with the legal framework governing medicines use to ensure patient safety

See the JD and PS for more details and the full range of duties