Specialist Pharmacist - Cardiovascular and Lipid Disorders

The Pharmacy Service at St George's is highly regarded across the Trust and South West London region, with around 270 staff members working closely with multi-disciplinary teams. The department is innovative, dynamic, forward thinking and constantly expanding. We are proud of the clinical pharmacy services we deliver and our patients are at the centre of everything we do.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist with a passion for high quality patient care to support the provision, development and evaluation of our Cardiovascular and Lipid Disorder services. This is an exceptional career opportunity for a high calibre pharmacist looking to further advance their career and develop leadership, autonomy, clinical and prescribing skills at a fast paced, challenging and rewarding environment., The post holder will need to be flexible and organised, be able to align their values with those of the organisation and work well within a team. The successful candidate will work to ensure the continued provision and development of high quality, comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to patients as well as influence senior managers and clinicians within the Cardiovascular and Lipid services.
Key activities:
· Act as the Specialist Pharmacist for Cardiovascular Diseases and Lipid Disorders directorates including pharmacist led clinics and cardiovascular homecare services.
· Provide expert advice and support in their specialist field to colleagues to identify, stratify and optimise treatment pathways.
· Contribute to the strategic planning of Cardiovascular Services and Lipid Disorders.
· Deputise for the Principal Pharmacist and represent the team within the organisation and across interface boundaries.
· In conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist, manage and implement services designed to improve the pharmaceutical care to patients and extend the boundaries of clinical practice.
· Identify, support and participate in financial reporting and drug budget management within the relevant directorate.
· Progress service improvement initiatives through multi-disciplinary working to ensure safe and timely provision of medicines.
To participate in service metric collection, clinical audit, research, risk management and clinical guideline development

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totaling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.