Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (late duty, weekends, oncall and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 391-RFL-8321081
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- london
- Salary
- £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8a Highly Specialist Pharmacist - HIV and Infectious diseases
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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Job overview
The post holder will provide support as required to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicine information services and medicines management programme and assist in planning and delivery of education and training within the pharmacy department and HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health and Infectious Diseases teams
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for providing a highly specialist clinical and professional pharmaceutical service to HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health and Infectious diseases teams based North Middlesex University Hospital.
The post holder will be expected to work closely with the multidisciplinary team, consultants and service managers of these specialty areas.
The post holder is responsible for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety and clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines.
The post holder will advise on drug budget management in these areas and undertake clinical audit to continually improve the quality of the service provided.
The post holder is responsible for developing policies and guidelines as required to ensure safe clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines in these areas, and across the interface between primary and secondary care.
The post holder will provide support as required to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicine information services and medicines management programme and assist in planning and delivery of education and training within the pharmacy department and HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health and Infectious Diseases teams
Working for our organisation
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across four main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Education and professional qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRPharmS or equivalent
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it
- Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it
- Advanced qualification in specialist area or equivalent Good Clinical Practice
Desirable criteria
- Independent non medical prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
Trust committments
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant Hospital Pharmacy experience, including recent clinical/ward pharmacy experience
- HIV/ID, SRH Hospital pharmacy experience
- Ability to critically review services and Processes
- Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Use of search engines/medical databases to retrieve information
- Relevant staff management experience
- Integrate research evidence into practice
- Project management experience
- Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice
- Understanding of Formulary & Drug Use Review issues
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage and supervise staff
- Leading and Implementing change
- Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure
- Project Management Experience
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work under pressure
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Computer literate
- Ability to innovate and implement change
- Ability to carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysis
- Ability to lead service
- Ability to motivate, influence and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team and management.
- Ability to work with colleagues as part of a team
- Ability to resolve conflict
- Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
- Demonstrate analytical and reasoning skills
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy maybe contentious or complex
Personal qualities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic, well motivated, hardworking, punctual
- Identifies own training needs; actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice
- Flexibility to work weekends, Bank Holidays, late duties and oncall and potential 7 day working, potential cross site working
- Reliable with good attendance record
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
- Joyce Mahungu
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist HIV/ID
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 8872792
- Additional information
Clara Lai (Deputy chief pharmacist) 0208 8873410 [email protected]
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