Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (Maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 309-UCLH-8198
- Employer
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Westmoreland Street
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of HCAS, (pro-rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Surgical Specialties
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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Job overview
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Essential criteria
- Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Minimum of five years’ experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
- Experience of clinical service provision to acute surgical patients
- Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others
- Maintains a broad knowledge of pharmacy practice
Desirable criteria
- Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to acute surgical patients in the outpatient setting Experience of clinical service provision to level 2 and/or 3 patients
- Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others Identifies best practice A, I
- Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses
Management & leadership skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in co-ordinating the day-to-day practice activities of others
- Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activity
- Collates data regarding service provision
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
- Demonstrates initiative
- Ability to work autonomously
- The ability to identify and manage risks
Desirable criteria
- Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in management of others
- Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Ability to utilise AI, data analysis tools, or other relevant applications to support and enhance work activity
- Evaluates service provision
- Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
- DemoDelegates authority appropriatelynstrates innovation
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures
Clinical & interpersonal skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
- The ability to identify and prioritise own clinical workload
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
- Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
- Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
- Maintains standards of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
- Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within acute medicine, and respects confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in gastroenterology patients
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures
Education & training skills
Essential criteria
- Education & training skills
- Identifies and meets own training needs
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
- Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
Research & development skills
Essential criteria
- Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
- Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in acute medicine
- Maintains a portfolio of practice
Desirable criteria
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Integrates research evidence into practice
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
- Dipty Joshi
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Surgical Specialties
- Email address
- [email protected]
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