Job overview

Barts Health Pharmacy Department has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic pharmacist to join us as a Specialist Pharmacist for Stroke and Care of the Elderly at the Royal London Hospital. Barts Health NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest trusts in the UK, delivering care across multiple sites in East London and hosting the London Air Ambulance at The Royal London Hospital. The Royal London Hospital provides a full range of local and specialist services, including hyper-acute stroke care and complex medicine for older people, serving the population of East London.

This post offers the opportunity to work closely with the multi-disciplinary team to deliver and develop a high-quality clinical pharmacy service across Stroke and Care of the Elderly/Frailty pathways. You will provide senior clinical leadership, support medicines optimisation and safe transitions of care, and contribute to service development, governance and quality improvement.

You will join a supportive and integrated pharmacy team committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. The successful candidate will have access to education and development opportunities, with support and mentorship from senior clinicians within Pharmacy and across other disciplines.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will carry out the full range of duties as the Specialist Pharmacist in Stroke and Care of the Elderly to deliver patient focused, quality care, based at the Royal London Hospital.

To promote the responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing of medicines within medicine to optimise clinical outcomes, minimise adverse reactions and improve medicines safety. The post holder will be supporting the Lead Pharmacist in leading a team of staff in the delivery of high quality clinical pharmacy.

They will support the Lead Pharmacist in managing the professional, clinical and technical input of pharmacy into Medicine directorates at the Royal London Hospital and will help deliver the broader medicines optimisation and governance strategy across the Trust. These outcomes will be achieved primarily through leadership of clinical staff, and the publication and implementation of guidelines and procedures to encourage best practice.

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.