Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 259-7483218SBH
- Employer
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Bartholomew's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £85,431 - £97,148 per annum inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/10/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Pharmacist (ATMP)
Band 8c
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
Job overview
Consultant Pharmacist – Haemato-Oncology and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) - 8C
Barts Health has an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced and motivated individual to join the pharmacy department in a Consultant Pharmacist for Haemato-Oncology and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP).
This post will have leadership and management responsibility for the development and delivery of effective pharmacy services for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs). The post holder will work in conjunction with the specialist clinical leads, clinical trials (R&D), pharmacy aseptic staff and Quality Assurance specialists to develop the provision of an efficient, high quality, professional and well-coordinated service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements relating to ATMPs including clinical trials. In line with national guidance, the Consultant Pharmacist has four main functions relating to expert practice; professional leadership; education, mentoring and overview of practice; and research, evaluation and service development
The position is based at St Bartholomew’s Hospital but you will also visit other sites within Barts Health.
Interview date: 10th October 2025
Main duties of the job
Key duties
• To strategically lead and develop pharmacy services for ATMPs and Haemato-Oncology for the Trust.
• To act as a role model and national expert in ATMPs, ensuring a consistently high level of pharmacy input in line with corporate objectives and NHS England policy.
• To provide expert advice to the Trust and pharmacy clinical trials teams in respect of all aspects of ATMP manufacture, procurement and use of and adherence to associated legislation
• To promote the safe use of medicines management for ATMPs across the Trust and act as an expert resource in these practice areas across the Trust, the region and nationally.
• To work with the relevant stakeholders in developing a model of care delivery for the introduction and management of ATMPs, including prescribing, preparation, storage, dispensing, administration and patient monitoring, initially for CAR-T cells and then other ATMPs as they become available, working closely with clinical trials colleagues and NHS England.
• To lead education and development in ATMPs and Haemato-Oncology for Trust staff and other staff working in these therapeutic areas regionally and nationally.
• To accept referrals from clinical staff regarding introduction of ATMPs, providing expert opinion and consultancy support where appropriate.
• Ensuring delivery of cost-effective prescribing across trust by working with commissioners to manage budgets, formulate cost improvement plans and monitors any potential savings.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • MPharm or equivalent
- • Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- • Postgraduate Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experience (minimum Postgraduate Diploma level)
- • Specialist competencies in area relevant to practice or relevant short courses taught at postgraduate level
- • Independent prescribing qualification and actively using the qualification.
- • Have evidence demonstrating competencies that meet the RPS Consultant Pharmacist Curriculum (incl. the RPS Advanced Pharmacy Practice Framework competencies)
Desirable criteria
- • Management qualification
- • MSc in pharmacy practice or equivalent
- • Credentialed as a consultant pharmacist
- • Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives to time in previous posts
- • Extensive post registration hospital experience, including the provision of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services with previous accountability for service delivery
- • Significant experience and knowledge in ATMP delivery
- • Demonstration of majority of competencies in expert professional practice, building working relationships and leadership clusters at a mastery level in the RPS Advanced Practice Framework
- • Demonstration of majority of competencies in management, education, training and development and research and evaluation clusters at an intermediate level in the RPS Advanced Practice Framework
- • Experience of contributing to national policies and consultations
- • Demonstrate experience of working with Senior healthcare professionals outside of Pharmacy to achieve Trust developments.
- • Demonstrable experience and ability to project manage and supervise a range of projects (e.g. clinical audit, QI, research)
- • Experience of conducting own research project and presentation of abstracts at conferences
- • Experience of managing staff (including performance management, CPD facilitation, learning needs assessment, appraisals and feedback)
- • Experience of coaching other to reach potential
- • Experience in successfully leading and managing a clinical pharmacy team delivering high quality clinical pharmacy services
- • Experience of successfully managing change and leading projects in a complex environment
- • Experience of developing and delivering strategic plan for own team and critical care agenda in organisation
- • Experience of developing and delivering training programs for a multi-professional team
- • Successful working in a multidisciplinary team
- • Experience in delivering policy implementation and development of a service in order to advance clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of innovative working which extends the boundary of current practice
- • Experience in working with service user groups
- • Experience of contributing to national policies and consultations
- • Has published in peer-reviewed journals
- • Experience of leading or contributing to national projects
- • Experience of training (incl. in collaboration with academic institutions) / education and teaching / education skills
- • Experience of contributing to national decision making E.g. NICE, UKCPA
- • A portfolio of work that has been published / presented at a national level.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills relevant to Haemato-Oncology and ATMPs including CAR-T cells
- • Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
- • Demonstrate innovation
- • Demonstrates expert knowledge covering a range of services
- • Knowledge of and ability to apply all aspects of regulatory legislation and guidelines
- • Knowledge of GMP. GDP. GCP and GTP
- • Excellent understanding of potential risks involved with sharing care of medicines at the healthcare interfaces
- • Good understanding of the key literature relating to pharmacy practice
- • Good understanding of clinical governance, clinical risk management and patient safety initiatives
- • Demonstrates a good awareness of current national standards, guidelines, and service delivery issues as appropriate.
- • Demonstrates ability to interpret overall health service policy and strategy in order to establish goals and standards for others within the defined area(s)
- • Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
- • Able to analyse highly complex information relating to pharmaceutical and medication safety issues
- • Able to make sound judgments and act as the expert for ATMPs
- • Able to make complex arguments to negotiate with and influence senior managers and clinicians
- • Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
- • Able to communicate in highly pressurised and emotive environment
- • Able to chair and lead Trust level committees and boards
- • Has advanced quality improvement skills
- • Ability to manage staff resource and delegated financial budget
- • Ability to manage development of staff according to needs, working with partners in and out of the department
- • Able to write business cases
- • Able to develop and review options appraisals and identify the most appropriate option
- • Ability to apply knowledge in clinical practice and influence others to do the same
- • Able to apply of critical evaluation skills in the context of working practice
- • Ability to create evidence via research and lead on implementing recommendations in practice
- • Able to collaborate with multi-professional colleagues to conduct, contribute to and supervise research
- • Able to evaluate clinical evidence and clearly summarise to decision makers
- • Able to manage services and effectively enact and manage change
- • Able to use skills to manage difficult and dynamic situations
- • Able to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups of patients, clinicians and senior managers
- • Able to make decisions in the absence of evidence or data or where there is conflicting evidence or data
- • Able to motivate and act as a role model, with mentoring and coaching skills
- • Able to move easily between the detail and the big picture on issues in understanding and explaining the complexity of challenges and possible solutions
Desirable criteria
- • Demonstrated ability to successfully present research at a national level
Other
Essential criteria
- • Advanced IT skills – including MS Word, Excel, email and PowerPoint
- • Able to act as a role model
- • Effective leadership skills
- • Training skills
- • Ability to deliver lectures, workshops and formal presentations
- • Required to work on a weekend and bank holiday rota
- • Able to participate in the pharmacy on-call backup rota
- • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
- • Decisive, using sound judgment in decision making in a timely and confident manner.
- • Works across boundaries to build relationships and share information, plans and resources
- • High self-awareness, understanding own emotions, strengths and limitations
- • Leads by example, promoting the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, integrity and probity.
- • Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sotiris Antoniou
- Job title
- Divisional Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information please contact Sotiris Antoniou [email protected]
and Raliat Onatade [email protected]
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