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Location

Harrow, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

A Vacancy at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced pharmacist to join the innovative and friendly Anti-infectives Pharmacy Team at
Northwick Park Hospital. We are looking for an individual with a passion in anti-infectives as well as working within hospital pharmacy. The majority of your role will be dedicated to the Virtual Ward and Early Supported Discharge service for the acute infection pathway
but will also include working alongside other members of the Pharmacy Anti-infective Team to provide a service to the infectious disease
department and carrying out the Trusts antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. As the role is a fixed term position, monitoring key performance indicators and collecting outcome measures will be essential from the outset to support the business case development for a substantive post.

• To lead, deliver, develop, and evaluate clinical pharmacy services to the virtual ward and early supported discharge (ESD) service for
the acute infection pathway in accordance with the objectives and priorities agreed between the post holder, Chief Pharmacist, Lead
Anti-infective Pharmacist and the leads for the virtual ward and ESD service, in order to ensure safe, clinically effective, and cost
efficient use of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) and other anti-infective therapy including prescribing services when
required.
• To provide a consistently highly specialist pharmaceutical service for patients seen within the virtual ward and ESD service on the acute
infection pathway in line with Trust and national standards in order to meet all Clinical Governance requirements.
• To lead on Medicines Management for the virtual ward and early supported discharge (ESD) service for patients on the acute infection
pathway.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:
• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

This advert closes on Tuesday 12 Mar 2024

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