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Main area
B8 Pharmacist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-7666172
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Barnet Hospital
Town
Barnet
Salary
£61,631 - £68,623 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/01/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 8a Lead Pharmacist- Patient Services

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

The Senior Pharmacist for patient services will assist in leading, delivering, developing and evaluating a high quality clinical and pharmaceutical service to inpatients and outpatient services.  This includes the responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day service provision, including allocation of staff and provision of cover in the event of sickness. 

The Trust takes pride as one of the major specialist centres for infectious diseases, liver and renal transplants, breast and plastic surgery, myeloma, and neuroendocrine tumours. Working in one of the main speciality centres brings exciting opportunities to see a range of patients at different levels of complexities. Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this internationally renowned teaching hospital. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do. 

Main duties of the job

This post holder will be responsible for promoting governance and the safe use of medicines across the Trust alongside providing a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within a defined clinical specialty.
To work closely with the multidisciplinary teams, clinical leads, and divisional managers for inpatient MDTU and outpatient services.  
To oversee the operational, clinical and strategic components including being responsible for optimising digital pathways related to Patient Services.  
To have overall responsibility for Patient Services, including ensuring compliance with relevant local, Trust, professional, ethical and regulatory standards. 
To assure compliance of Patient Services with relevant Key Performance Indicators. 
Be involved in quality improvement projects which aim to improve performance within patient services
To support with education and training activities of all pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals in the context of patient service activities
To support with compliance with external governance requirements relating to patient services
Develop tools to capture and analyse performance and report this month.  Leading on the training and induction of pharmacy staff, ensuring they are adequately trained and supported to carry out their duties.

Working for our organisation

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/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for a detailed job description and responsibilities for this role

Person specification

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
  • GPhC registration
  • Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Registered supplementary or independent prescriber
  • Advanced qualification in specialist area

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Considerable experience working in hospital pharmacy and proven experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist
  • Experience of contributing to policy, planning and service development
  • Experience of managing own workload
  • Experience of managing change and leading service developments
  • Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure and high cost drugs
  • Experience of writing / implementing clinical guidelines and government directives
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working
  • Evidence of clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence based practice
  • Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
  • Comprehensive band 6/7 rotation
  • Experience as a clinical pharmacy tutor
  • Experience of clinical risk and clinical governance
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of on call commitments

Personal Qualities & attributes

Essential criteria
  • Identifies own training needs actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice
  • Demonstrate team work

Skills and aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and pharmaceutical care skills in the specialist areas
  • Demonstrates written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrates good negotiation skills and the ability to influence medical, pharmacy and management staff
  • Ability to communicate with patients and staff of all levels
  • Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous situation
  • Demonstrates good teaching and training skills
  • Demonstrates good management skills
  • Ability to justify and reason any advice given should this be challenged
  • Ability to communicate with patients/carers and staff of all levels
  • Ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver timely outcomes
  • Ability to work accurately under pressure
  • Ability to integrate in a multidisciplinary forum
  • Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving
  • Ability to identify and implement best practice using critical appraisal skills
  • Ability to identify and manage risk and understands clinical risk and clinical governance
  • Ability to contribute to business plans, policies and clinical protocols
  • Understanding of NHS national and local priorities
  • Understanding of processes and commissioning of medicines and services
Desirable criteria
  • Undertakes own research
  • Previous experience of electronic prescribing system

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Daud
Job title
Hiring Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02082164882
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