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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacist
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS9703
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Guys Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£56,276 - £63,176 per annum incl. HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/07/2025 23:59
Interview date
30/07/2025

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Pharmacist - HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health

Band 7

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

We are pleased to advertise a permanent full time Band 7 Pharmacist vacancy in the Harrison Wing HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) Pharmacy team.

The post will allow individual to further enhance their HIV knowledge, skills and experience necessary to develop towards becoming a highly specialist pharmacist in HIV and SRH.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic pharmacist with a specialist interest in HIV with demonstrable competencies in hospital pharmacy practice, excellent communication skills and a demonstrable commitment to the holistic pharmaceutical care.

A postgraduate certificate in Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent) is a pre-requisite. Experience of working in a HIV clinic is not a pre-requisite but your application should demonstrate activities indicating a strong passion for this specialist field.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached Job Description for full details of the post

Main duties

  • Outpatients - screening prescriptions, managing patient and staff enquiries, triaging unwell patients presenting to pharmacy for escalation in care, liaising with the outsourced pharmacy, undertaking pharmacist-led prescribing clinics to: start/switch ART, monitor recent ART starts/switches,  and stable patients
  • Inpatients - reviewing complex admissions, managing queries from nursing, medical and pharmacy teams of other specialties, attending HIV MDT ward rounds
  • MDT-working - participating in research and audits, leading on and participating in quality improvement projects, chairing ART MDT review meetings

Key qualities

  • Enthusiastic, driven, resilient, friendly
  • Patient-focused and going the extra mile where necessary
  • Naturally demonstrates the behaviours associated our Trust values
  • Passion for innovation, service r-design and quality improvement
  • Works collaboratively as well as autonomously (where appropriate) with the HIV Pharmacy team and the wider HIV MDT
  • Excellent time-management and prioritisation skills
  • Promotes equality, diversity and inclusion

Working for our organisation

About the HIV and SRH departments and teams

Locations and Services

The HIV department (Harrison Wing Department) is based at Guy's hospital in London Bridge opposite the Shard and the train station and provides a service to approximately 4500 patients. The Harrison Wing Department hosts over 18 specialist HIV clinics, in addition to the pharmacist-led clinics, including:

  • Neuro-cognition and psychiatric
  • Hepatitis 
  • Renal
  • Living Well (for ageing and metabolic conditions)
  • Young Adults
  • VIP (vulnerable patients)
  • Stigmatized patients (off-site clinic)

Adult inpatients can be on any site but are predominantly admitted to wards at the St. Thomas' Hospital site in Southbank opposite the Houses of Parliament. As a result, there will be cross-site cover, either virtually or in-person. Child/infant inpatients are cared for by the Evelina Children's Hospital.

The SRH department provides integrated sexual healthcare from three locations (Burrell Street Sexual Health Centre, Streatham Hill Clinic & Walworth Road Clinic). The post-holder will provide support virtually for the SRH department as necessary. The vacancy role is, in most part, focused on HIV services.

The Pharmacy department has three hubs onsite with several spoke sites throughout the Trust and the community. The HIV Pharmacy is one of these spokes, integrated into the clinic, and this is where the post-holder will be based.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This specialist pharmacist role is designed to provide the pharmacist with the specialist skills, knowledge and experience they need in order to develop into a Highly Specialist Pharmacist in HIV/SRH. The role will also develop skills and experience in quality improvement/service redesign. It is expected that the Specialist Pharmacist will ensure the safe and clinically effective use of medicines for patients living with HIV.

Please see the job description and person specification for the full range of duties for the role

Person specification

Professional Registration and Memberships

Essential criteria
  • GPhC registration
Desirable criteria
  • RPS member
  • HIVPA member
  • BHIVA member

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MPharm degree or equivalent
  • PGCert in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • PGDip or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
  • GPhC registered independent prescriber

Clinical Practice

Essential criteria
  • Experience in providing pharmaceutical care to a range of patient groups – general/acute medical/surgical patients
  • Ability to recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options to members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Ability to identify and manage risks
  • Demonstrates good level of clinical reasoning and judgement
  • Enhances the quality of patient care
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in providing pharmaceutical care to people living with HIV
  • Ability to identify and prioritise clinical and operational work
  • Holistic approach to patient care
  • Implement national guidance and other commissioning policies in practice
  • Ability to accept referrals from other practitioners and professionally resolve these

Education and Training

Essential criteria
  • Maintain a portfolio of practice
  • Identify own training needs
  • Evaluate the training provided
  • Provide education and training to pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals
Desirable criteria
  • Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
  • Experience of clinical supervision of others
  • Experience of delivery of education and training at graduate level

Research and Development

Essential criteria
  • Use of clinical audit to improve practice
  • Ability to develop an idea into a project
  • Ability to evaluate quality of own work
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in quality improvement project
  • Integrate research evidence into practice
  • Able to critically appraise clinical papers to produce evidence-based evaluation of treatments
  • Presented (oral or poster) at national or international conferences
  • Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided
  • Undertake own research
  • Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines

Teamwork and Management

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda
  • Meets set targets
  • Demonstrates the ability to deliver medicines optimisation
  • Works well in a team – support, flexibility, shared vision, shared workload
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities
  • Can work autonomously and take initiative
  • Experience in management of others
  • Experience in finance/commissioning reporting of drug-spend
  • Experience in working collaboratively with outsourced pharmacy providers (not including homecare)
  • Works adaptively across traditional boundaries

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Derick Ngai
Job title
Highly Specialist Pharmacist - HIV & SRH
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02071887682
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