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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
337-NP-9237DG
Employer
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northwick Park
Town
Harrow
Salary
£61,631 - £68,623 Per Annum Including High Cost Area Supplement
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/12/2025 23:59

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London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Senior Specialist Pharmacist

Band 8a

Careers at #LNWH

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

We are looking for enthusiastic and patient oriented pharmacist to help lead and deliver out-patient pharmacy and work with the specialist clinics providing services across the trust.

Main duties of the job

Key duties include: leading in the provision of out-patient pharmacy services for immunosuppressant and disease modifying drugs; collaboratively working with specialist teams for developing clinical pharmacy services including prescribing, facilitating training of permanent and rotating staff, supporting the lead patient services pharmacist in the roll out of patient centre consultations.

This position offers the opportunity to build on your clinical skills by collaborating with specialist clinics and the out-patient pharmacy team.

You will need to be a GPhC registered pharmacist with a diploma in General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent and broad hospital-based experience. You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will also need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development.

This is a full-time post. The post holder will be required to participate in the on-call (back up), weekend, bank holiday and late-night duty rotas.  

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

Refer to the attached JD and PS.

Key duties include: leading in the provision of out-patient pharmacy services for immunosuppressant and disease modifying drugs; collaboratively working with specialist teams for developing clinical pharmacy services including prescribing, facilitating training of permanent and rotating staff, supporting the lead patient services pharmacist in the roll out of patient centre consultations.

Person specification

registration

Essential criteria
  • GPhC Pharmacist registration
Desirable criteria
  • RPS member

post graduate qualification

Essential criteria
  • Post graduate diploma in General Pharmacy Practice
Desirable criteria
  • Independent prescriber

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Naina Patel
Job title
Lead Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 8869 2217
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