Job Description

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. The Trust comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, North Middlesex Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital and several additional services in community. Our mission is to deliver World Class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives; excellent outcomes excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.The Pharmacy department of the Royal Free London NHS Trust is a friendly, progressive and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this large, internationally renowned teaching hospital. The Pharmacy Department also offers a number of education and development opportunities.



This is an exciting opportunity to drive the pharmacy medicines optimisation agenda in conjunction with the Group Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Lead and senior leadership team in the Trust.

Key duties will include:

To support harmonisation of medicines use across all trust sites To critically appraise new medicines applications, and provide medicines optimisation advice to the MDTs and stakeholders Promote evidence-based, safe, and cost-effective use of medicines and driving harmonisation of medicines- related use across the RFL Group Support in the management and co-ordination of the RFL Trust Formulary and Drugs & Therapeutics Committee activities, including Secretariat support, review of new medicine applications, drug-related clinical guidelines, SOPs, policies and patient group directions (PGDs) and medicines-related documents Support to the RFL DTC and North Central London (NCL) Joint Formulary Committee (JFC) and contribute to the development, implementation and updating of the sector- wide Formulary, treatment pathways and medicines related guidelines Support medicines optimisation activities in the NCL sector, working with the JFC support team to ensure adoption of sector-wide decisions as applicable to the RFL Support the RFL Medicines Efficiency programme at Trust sites, as part of a co-ordinated scheme of work across North Central London STP Facilitate the implementation of Formulary decisions through ePMA systems, digital clinical systems and the NCL NetFormulary To act as a support Pharmacist for one or more specific clinical specialties

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.



Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.



For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/



Please see the attached Job description and person specification for more information on working at The Royal Free London.