Lead Pharmacist for Clinical Haematology & Anticoagulation

To cover anticoagulation clinic, triaging patients, including seeing patient, initiating and reviewing treatment, working closely with consultant haematologist.

Working hours- Three days per week, 7.5 hours per day.

1. To communicate with the multidisciplinary healthcare team (doctors, nurses, dieticians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, ward managers, and site practitioners), to intermediate care, general practice support and community pharmacists in the provision of medicine related information and assessment of patients treatment.

To work with appropriate staff to support development of services and facilitate theimplementation of strategies to improve safe medicines use throughout the Trust., To lead specialist anticoagulation clinics. This includes the promotion of safe, effective and cost-effective anticoagulants use to facilitate patient admission and enhance continuity of care across the primary and secondary care interface.

To act as a role model and provide a consistently high standard of pharmaceutical service to patients in line with the Trust and Departmental objectives.

To educate healthcare professionals on the costs associated with medicines within clinical haematology and in particular anticoagulant therapies and promote the use of evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing within divisions.

To participate in the preparation of business cases to support service developments in Pharmacy, Clinical Haematology and Anticoagulation services as necessary.

To actively participate in the Thrombosis Committee and division meetings as necessary.

To support the divisions across the Trust in managing their anticoagulants expenditure and act as the point of liaison for any service developments that involves anticoagulation services.

Staff Management and Training

To support the education and training of other healthcare professionals

To participate in and contribute to clinical training programmes at a local and national level e.g. summer students, pharmacy undergraduates.

To undertake CPD to ensure that knowledge is continually updated.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley.

With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Marys Hospital in Sidcup.

The Trust has 7,500 staff and we have recently invested in our workforce to grow our establishment across a number of key services. In 2020 we won a London NHS Parliamentary Award in recognition of a wide range of initiatives to make the organisation a great place to work. We are accredited as a flexible working employer offering a number of flexible working options for staff. We are also accredited as a London Living Wage employer for our substantive, bank and contractors