Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical pharmacist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 11 months (Maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (rostered weekend working (with weekdays off in lieu), and back-up on-call commitment from home as part of large Department rota.)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9591
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- cross-site working. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 p.a. inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Adult Clinical Nutrition-Maternity cover
NHS AfC: 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
There is a rare and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join the adult clinical nutrition pharmacy team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, covering the maternity leave of the postholder. The fixed term is expected to be 11months.
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated pharmacist with knowledge and skills in gastrointestinal surgery (including intestinal failure) and parenteral nutrition to join our supportive, integrated pharmacy team, committed to delivering high quality patient care to both in-patients and to patients at home.
You will be an integral member of the expert nutrition multidisciplinary team (MDT) comprising of gastro and GI surgery consultants, dietitians, clinical nurse specialists and rotational clinical pharmacists to co-ordinate the care of adult patients requiring parenteral nutrition, and contribute to the safe prescribing of parenteral nutrition, quality care, risk management, and research.
Main duties of the job
- You will deliver a highly specialist clinical nutrition service to surgical, medical, oncology, gastroenterology and intensive care wards within the Trust
- Negotiate with the nutrition MDT to ensure the service is delivered safely and meets the needs of the patients by promoting the safe and cost-effective use of parenteral nutrition
- Lead on medicines solutions for intestinal failure patients on home parenteral nutrition
- Act as the Trust pharmacy lead across the Central London intestinal Failure Partnership (CLIP) network in collaboration with peers from Barts Health NHS Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, delivering on projects/developing pathways for the prescribing and monitoring of drugs such as for treating short bowel syndrome
- Support the rotational clinical pharmacists within clinical nutrition by acting as a role model and section manager
- Promote best practice, utilising local and regional benchmarking groups for the generation and promotion of standards, clinical guidelines and efficiencies
- Participate in departmental and multidisciplinary audit/research activities, to ensure cost-improvement and quality targets are met
Working for our organisation
You'll work closely with specialist pharmacists in gastroenterology and GI surgery to individualise therapy for complex nutrition patients, including maintaining long term conditions despite reduced oral absorption. Your patients may be across both sites, though predominantly on St Thomas' site.
Working as part of a senior team (also including colleagues in orthopaedics, plastics, and anticoagulation safety) you'll deliver patient and pathway changes across surgical specialities to create quality care across all surgical patients, through training and support of a team of pharmacists and technicians.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- have experience as a clinical practitioner in nutrition support, several surgical specialities, and with broad experience in other general medical areas
- be able to demonstrate a passion for patient care
- demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and directorate level
- demonstrate experience of service development and problem solving in a multi-disciplinary environment
- have excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills
- have experience in training and supporting pharmacy and MDT staff
- candidates must have successfully completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent)
- being a registered Independent Prescriber is an advantage but is not essential
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration training
- Registered with GPhC
- Higher degree / diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of being able to deliver pharmaceutical services to general medical patients
- Evidence of being able to deliver pharmaceutical services to at least 2 surgical specialities of patients
- Clinical experience with nutrition support
- Clinical experience in GI surgery
- Clinical experience in intestinal failure/luminal gastroenterology
- Demonstrate the ability to make clinical decisions in complex surgical patients
- To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these
- Experience of clinical supervision of others
- Demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in Upper GI Surgery
- Clinical experience in Colorectal Surgery
- Demonstrate innovation proactively developing clinical pharmacy services
- Experience representing pharmaceutical care at directorate or equivalent level
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in long term conditions
- Demonstrate ability to implement local guidance, and commissioning policies.
- Experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates the ability to introduce changes needed to achieve local or national agendas
- Demonstrates the ability to provide evaluated financial information
- Demonstrates the ability to delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
- Demonstrates the ability to manage drug errors from IR1s and develop strategies to minimise these
- Demonstrates the ability to motivate and inspire others
- Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided
- Identifies training needs of junior staff and adapts to meet these
- Provides education and training to pharmacy and MDT
- Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
Desirable criteria
- Have managed clinical pharmacy services to surgical patients
- Identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on drugs budget
- Demonstrate ability to influence practice at a directorate level
- Demonstrable experience of influencing/improving prescribing pathways at a regional level
- To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
- Undertake own research
- Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services to surgical, GI Surgery or inpatients requiring nutritional support
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
- Caroline Broadbent
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist: Surgery, GI and Acute Pain
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071885019
- Additional information
Interviews are expected to be between 17-20th June.
If you would like more information please contact the current postholder, Raeesa ([email protected]) or the line manager, Caroline ([email protected]).
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