Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (plus participation in late rota to release outsourced PN once a week (17:30-21:00))
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9679
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,806 - £53,134 p.a incl of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Releasing Pharmacist
Band 6
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 announce a vacancy in search of a Releasing Pharmacist at our St Thomas' site covering PN and CIVAS.
In this role, you'll be involved in the day-to-day operations of the PN and CIVAS units.
You will help support releasing activities of aseptically prepared products, sign off the aseptic unit for use, and support the senior teams with deviations, change controls, actions and quality risk assessments.
We're seeking a candidate with good attention to detail, a strong team player and an excellent communicator.
You will develop expertise in Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and use your understanding to inspire and ensure regulatory compliance across all preparation activities.
Joining our aseptic services team at Guy's & St Thomas' is an exciting proposition, with our CIVAS unit having recently undergone a refurbishment project. There is also significant aseptic estates development planned over the next five years and growing demand for clinical trials, cancer treatments, CIVAS and advanced therapies.
This role represents a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your skills in GMP, aseptics and quality management. Don't miss out on being part of our dynamic journey forward!
Main duties of the job
Main duties and summary of key performance areas:
- Act as an authorised pharmacist responsible for the provision of CIVAS products prepared and released under Section 10 exemption.
- Help develop product monographs, lifecycle and stability assessments for CIVAS products.
- Understand and support clinical trials requiring aseptic preparation from the St Thomas' aseptic unit for GSTT- and commercial-sponsored trials.
- Take part in the Quality Management system with the support of the Senior Aseptic Pharmacist.
- Oversee the outsourcing of Parenteral Nutrition (PN) to ensure this is a safe and efficient service.
- Ensure accurate ordering of bespoke PN for paediatric, neonate and adult patients.
- Understand the importance of each component of PN, including macronutrients, electrolytes, trace elements and vitamins, to assist with stability and ordering queries.
- Ensure safe dispensing of standard and bespoke PN.
- Checking of PN orders.
- Understand safe operating parameters of the air handling unit, clean air devices, and staff cleaning and monitoring activities to sign off the unit as safe for use.
- Oversee changes within the unit to progress the development of the service, and review of new products and requests in conjunction with the Accountable Pharmacist and Associate Chief Pharmacist.
- To be able to raise Datix reports and assist in the identification, escalation and management of risk.
Working for our organisation
Guy's & St Thomas' Technical Services has one of the country's largest manufacturing facilities, split across a number of sites and involves around 140 staff working in licensed manufacturing and named patient dispensing areas. Services include sterile and non-sterile manufacturing, clinical trials, quality control and quality assurance as well as aseptic preparation of CIVAS and chemotherapy.
There is a wide range of expertise throughout the department and many opportunities to learn and develop from technical experts. We have cultivated a culture that actively promotes patient safety as a top priority. This ethos is ingrained in our team's values and everyday practices, fostering an environment where every member is committed to upholding the highest standards of care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description/person specification for full details on the role and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Releasing pharmacist (community based, dispensary or other relevant experience)
Desirable criteria
- CIVAS, Chemotherapy, TPN or sterile/non sterile manufacture
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated ability to organise own time and the time of others
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with all grades of staff
- Knowledge of GMP
- Knowledge of QA/QC
- Demonstrated ability to identify training needs of self and others
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- GPhC registration
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
- Francesca Lewis
- Job title
- Senior Aseptic Services Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 188 9486
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