Highly Specialist Cardiac (Critical Care) Pharmacist

Job overview

"An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic senior clinical pharmacist to join the cardiac team at Barts Heart Centre, part of Barts Health NHS Trust.  This is an exceptional career opportunity for a high calibre pharmacist with vision, excellent organisation and leadership skills looking to develop their career, both clinically and professionally.

Barts Heart Centre is one of the country’s leading cardiac centres and the largest of its kind in Europe. We treat patients from across the UK for a wide range of complex conditions including coronary heart disease, arrhythmias and heart failure. Our expanding critical care service includes management of post-operative cardiothoracic surgical patients, as well as an ECMO service.

The post holder will work closely with medical and nursing staff to ensure the continued provision and development of high quality, comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to patients, influencing change at a divisional level, as well as managing junior pharmacy team members. Contribution to the research agenda working with staff across the Pharmacy departments and supervising student placements will also be integral to this role.

The successful applicant will be expected to be a team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Experience in cardiology, as well as the management of level 2 or 3 critical care patients is essential, along with a clear vision of the future of clinical pharmacy within the specialty."

Main duties of the job

To support the Lead Pharmacist for Critical Care and Theatres in providing responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing within the networks to:

- optimise patient outcomes

- minimise adverse reactions

- improve medicines safety

Help to deliver the broader medicines optimisation and governance strategy across the Trust. These outcomes will be achieved primarily through leadership of clinical staff, and the publication and implementation of guidelines and procedures to encourage best practice

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

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

The successful applicant will be expected to be a team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Experience in cardiology, as well as the management of level 2 or 3 critical care patients is essential, along with a clear vision of the future of clinical pharmacy within the specialty.