Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Immunoglobulins and East Midlands SRIAP

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic pharmacist to join our well-established medicines finance team by providing maternity leave cover for the substantive post holder. The role offers development opportunities around medicines finance, procurement, project management, working at local/regional/national MDT level whilst maintaining specialist clinical pharmacy skills.

You will work closely alongside the Lead Pharmacist: High Cost Medicines and wider HCM/immunoglobulins team, whilst also linking with the wider medicines finance, homecare, procurement, ICT and specialist clinical teams.

You will act as Specialist Pharmacist for immunoglobulins at NUH and the EM-SRIAP.  NUH are the Lead (Hub) Trust in the East Midlands for managing the safe and appropriate use of immunoglobulins and host the EM-SRIAP, mandated by NHS England to provide governance and assurance over immunoglobulin use in the region.

What we offer:

Supportive and friendly team of colleagues covering a wide range of expertise.

Opportunity to lead on the management of a specialist medicine across a number of clinical specialties and act as the Professional Secretary for both the NUH IAP and EM-SRIAP.

Support to advance your specialist knowledge of high cost drugs, commissioning, medicines finance and implementation of medicines value schemes.

Opportunity to apply and further develop clinical pharmacy expertise, through delivering clinical pharmacy services to a defined area.

Main duties of the job

In addition to this summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification.

Key Responsibilities:

Specialist Pharmacist for Immunoglobulins at NUH and the East Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel (EM-SRIAP), including:

Support the oversight of immunoglobulin usage across the East Midlands and act as the Professional Secretary for the East Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel.

Provide specialist clinical pharmacist oversight of the management of immunoglobulins across NUH, in line with national commissioning criteria, governance arrangements, product allocations, and nationally mandated reporting requirements.

Act as Professional Secretary to the NUH Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel.

To line manage and support the EM-SRIAP Co-Ordinator and the Pharmacy Immunoglobulin & Reimbursement Scheme Officer.

Partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken whilst delivering against the NUH medicines optimisation strategy.

Provide support to the High Cost Medicines Team on a regular basis, and the wider Medicines Finance Team as necessary. Support the team with implementation of medicines value schemes.

You will be required to partake in general clinical pharmacy duties, work across both City Hospital and QMC campuses of NUH and to take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties and senior support rota for the on-call pharmacist

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The ideal candidate will be a highly capable, dynamic clinical pharmacist with a broad experience of working in the hospital sector and an enthusiasm to be involved with the complex, specialist and ever developing area of immunoglobulins and high cost medicines.

Specialist knowledge around immunoglobulins, high cost medicines and commissioning pathways would be preferable, however full support would be given to advance the development and knowledge base of an appropriate candidate.

Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Someone who can work well independently whilst also being an active team player.

Experience in project work and implementation of changes to prescribing practice, including MDT working.

Experience in collating, analysing and presenting complex clinical/financial data.

Please see the attached detailed job description and person specification for further details.