Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9589
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 p.a inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/06/2025
Employer heading

Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular (Vascular)
Band 8a
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
To support leading, delivering, developing and evaluating clinical pharmacy services to patients in cardiovascular in accordance with the objectives set between the Specialty Clinical Lead, Directorate General Manager and Principal Pharmacist Cardiovascular. To be a role model in the field of cardiovascular and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for patients in line with GSTT corporate objectives.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the team, you will support the delivery of clinical services to patients with cardiovascular disease. See JD and PS for further details.
Working for our organisation
The cardiovascular services at our foundation trust are one of the largest and most comprehensive in the UK. We are looking for an experienced and committed clinical pharmacist to deliver clinical pharmacy services to our directorates. Essentially you should be able to demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients with cardiovascular diseases. See JD and PS for further details.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorates targets. This will include delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a range of patients with cardiovascular conditions, supporting and training junior pharmacists, whilst also maintaining and developing the services further both within the primary and secondary care. This post may require cross site working across our partner organisations.
Candidates should have demonstrable competencies in hospital clinical pharmacy practice, excellent communication skills and commitment to pharmaceutical care. Furthermore candidates should be highly organised and have experience in delivering specialist pharmacist led clinics and clinical commissioning of high cost medicines. See JD and PS for further details.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm degree
- Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
- Successfully completed an approved course for non-medical prescriber
- Registration with GPhC
- Registered with the appropriate healthcare regulator as an non-medical prescriber
Desirable criteria
- RPS Faculty Membership
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in acute and/or specialist medicine
- Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine patients
- Deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
- Identify and promote best practice
- Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
- Motivate and inspire others
- Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 3 environment
- Clinical experience in the community setting
- Demonstrate innovation
- Extend the boundaries of the profession
- Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have managed an area of clinical pharmacy services
- Identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
- Ensure national and local agendas are delivered
- Establish processes for the setting of standards of care
- Identify and manage changes that need to occur to achieve these
- Identify and manage the risks involved
- Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
- To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
- To identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget
Desirable criteria
- To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
- Have managed clinical pharmacy services in cardiovascular
- Reconcile national priorities with local realities
- Work across traditional boundaries
- Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
- To promote Improvements in Working Lives
- To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
- To demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders and the profession
Experience
Essential criteria
- To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice
- Integrate research evidence into practice.
- Identify gaps in the evidence base
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
- Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
Desirable criteria
- To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a research component, or equivalent published evidence
- Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
- Undertake own research
- Guide and support others undertaking research
- Co-ordinate the undergraduate and preregistration student clinical activity
Skills
Essential criteria
- To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
- Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Provide education and training to pharmacy and other staff
- Evaluate the training provided
- Participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
- Identify own training needs
- Actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
- Maintain a portfolio of practice
Desirable criteria
- To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a teaching component, or equivalent evidence of teaching experience
- To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Develop strategies to meet the training needs of staff
- Previous experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
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
- Anoushka Jiwa
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07749400380
- Additional information
Via Bleep 1860 (via switchboard)
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