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Job summary

Main area
RLH SITE MANAGEMENT
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
259-8184525RLH
Employer
Barts Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal London Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/08/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Barts Health NHS Trust logo

Senior Pharmacist (Specialist Rotations)

Band 7

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. 

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

The Royal London Hospital is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Senior Pharmacist to join an innovative specialist rotational programme within our clinical pharmacy team. Undertaking 9 – 12 month rotations across specialist rotations at the Royal London, part of Barts Health NHS Trust, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to optimise medicines, improve patient flow and deliver safe, high-quality care.

 

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to build specialist expertise, lead quality improvement and service development projects, contribute to education and research, and develop the knowledge, leadership skills and professional credentials required for progression into highly specialist and advanced pharmacist roles.

Main duties of the job

The post is a structured rotational role, designed to provide experience across a variety of specialist practice areas within the Royal London Hospital. Through rotational placements, the post holder will develop advanced clinical knowledge, leadership skills and experience in service improvement, contributing to the delivery of high-quality pharmacy services across multiple specialist pathways.

 

The post holder will work on the wards and clinical areas and deliver quality care to patients through efficient medicines optimisation, medicines reconciliation, promoting cost effective prescribing, patient engagement and pathway development. This will include the assessment of patient’s own drugs, original pack dispensing at ward level, counseling patients about their medicines, supporting the medical/surgical team in evidence-based prescribing, supporting the nursing team in safe storage and administration of medicines and coordinating the supply of discharge medication. The post holder will work with their ward-based team to continually develop the service, while maintaining high standards and achieving best practice to meet the needs of patients and the Trust. The role will also involve dispensary-based responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

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.

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

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a high acuity unit such as acute medical admissions, acute surgical admissions or another rotational role
  • Proven experience of good performance in previous posts
  • Previous evaluations or reviews of medicines
  • Foundation knowledge in providing a hospital based pharmacy service to medical and surgical wards
  • Some experience of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. pre-registration / foundation training pharmacists / nurses / junior doctors
  • Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working on a high dependency unit
  • Successful experience of managing & leading projects
  • Experience of delivering professional training and education
  • Experience of being involved in managing medication incidents

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
  • Assertive, diplomatic, persuasive with ability to negotiate.
  • Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
  • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
  • Ability to manage time effectively and work to deadlines
  • Demonstrates initiative
  • Able to develop critical appraisal skills
  • Able to work unsupervised, follow written instruction and work under pressure
  • IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
  • Demonstrates effective customer service skills
  • Good team worker
  • Evidence of good ward practice
  • Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training
  • Effective pharmaceutical care skills.
  • Ability to motivate and act as a role model
  • Ability to motivate and act as a role model
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to motivate and act as a role model
  • Demonstrated ability to negotiate with and influence senior medical staff and senior management
  • Experience of working across a network to adopt best practices

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MPharm or equivalent
  • Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
  • Minimum of a post graduate certificate in clinical pharmacy or a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
  • Must have started working on the second stage of the diploma
  • Independent prescribing qualification or willing to work towards
  • RCPharm Advanced Framework Credentialed or will to work towards
Desirable criteria
  • GCP Trained in clinical trials

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Green@Barts HealthNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyLondon Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage FoundationPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Pregnancy Loss PledgeDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible Working

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

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sharan Suthakaran
Job title
Lead Pharmacist, Surgery and Anaesthetics
Email address
[email protected]
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