Lead Pharmacist - Interstitial lung disease

Job overview

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 help manage patient advice, HCP queries & primary / secondary interface issues. A good understanding of the high-cost drugs process is required as you will be expected to monitor & manage funding applications for high cost 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.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure the smooth running, day to day management and development of the pharmacy service  to the ILD speciality.
• To take active part in the multidisciplinary team meetings for ILD patients prescribed antifibrotics or other drugs to ensure prescribing & doses are appropriate.
• To act as a clinical role model to all pharmacists and ensure the safe, clinically effective, evidence based and cost efficient use of drugs.
• To train and work as an Independent Prescriber according to Trust Policies and within your identified scope of practice, as appropriate to the role.
• To provide a high quality, patient focused pharmaceutical service to in-patients, outpatients, discharge patients and other patients as required by the ILD service.
• To be able to use the computerised e-prescribing & medical notes system used in the Trust.
• To act as a post-graduate certificate/diploma tutor according to needs of the department.
• To participate in education and training of other healthcare professionals.

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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.