Job summary
- Main area
- Health Science Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Job share - 15 hours per week (NA)
- Job ref
- 337-NP-8887KS
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park Hospital
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Pharmacist, Respiratory
Band 8a
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our ward based clinical pharmacy services. In this key post you will be working as part of an established multidisciplinary team and be responsible for providing a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to our Respiratory wards.
The post holder will work closely with the Pharmacy Team Lead for Medicine to monitor and control medicine use within the Respiratory service. They will support the strategic development of the pharmacy clinical and ward based services and lead on reducing risks associated with medicines within the Respiratory service.
Main duties of the job
As an enthusiastic and patient oriented pharmacist, you will combine expert opinion and expert practice at the bedside to benefit patient care, and work at the forefront within the multidisciplinary team to help us implement, deliver and continually improve medicines management.
Overall, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting the development and delivery of clinical pharmacy services within Respiratory.
- Providing a safe, efficient and cost-effective pharmacy service to the Respiratory wards.
- Contributing to the management of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working within the Respiratory service.
- Supporting and helping to deliver key performance targets within the Respiratory service, in particular those related to prescribing, optimising medicines and the turnaround times of discharge medicines.
This position is a job share and offers the opportunity to build on your management experience and specialism in Respiratory medicine. You will need excellent communication, interpersonal and time management skills and will need to enjoy working as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will need post-registration experience relevant to hospital pharmacy and will have the Post Graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification.
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please can you see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GPhC registered
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
- Management or leadership training / qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Hospital Pharmacy Experience
- Experience in Clinical Pharmacy
- Experience in Education and Training
Desirable criteria
- Experience within Respiratory Medicine
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience in Quality Improvement projects / audits
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communication skills
- Ability to prioritise workload under pressure
Desirable criteria
- Research / service improvement
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Mira Jivraj
- Job title
- Pharmacy Team Lead for Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8869 5422
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