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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
12 months (Fixed term 12 months)
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
196-LIS9665
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Thomas Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£61,927 - £68,676 p.a. inc. HCA pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/07/2025 23:59
Interview date
24/07/2025

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Highly Specialist Pharmacist Paediatric Nutrition

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

We are looking for a committed Highly Specialist Pharmacist with excellent paediatric, pharmaceutical and Paediatric Nutrition skills for a fixed term position at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. The successful applicant will be working with a team of highly motivated and experienced pharmacists and technicians providing patient-centred pharmaceutical care to paediatric patients. 

Main duties of the job

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services within ELCH to the Paediatric Nutrition service in accordance with the objectives set by the Clinical Lead Pharmacist. To act as a role model in the paediatric nutrition pharmacy fields. To provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service in line with GSTFT corporate objectives and NHS Plan.

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate the processes for approval, appropriate use and audit of high cost medicines commissioned by NHS England (NHSE) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) in accordance with the objectives set by the Paediatric Clinical lead Pharmacist.  

Working for our organisation

Evelina London

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’.

We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life for children, young people and for women from London, South East England, and – for some rare conditions – around the UK and the world.

As the only NHS Trust in London with women’s and specialist children’s services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. We operate through four clinical directorates: Neonatology and Medical Specialties, Surgical Services, Theatres and Paediatric Intensive Care, Children’s Community Services and Women’s Services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be leading on the provision of the paediatric pharmacy nutrition  service to within the Evelina. For a comprehensive overview, please consult the attached job description.

Person specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters Degree in Pharmacy
  • Higher Degree / diploma in clinical practice
  • GPHC Registration
Desirable criteria
  • RPS Faculty Member
  • RPS membership

Skills

Essential criteria
  • - Identify and promote best practice
  • - Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
  • - Motivate and inspire others
  • - Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
  • Identify and manage the risks for the service
  • To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via IFRs
Desirable criteria
  • - Extend the boundaries of the profession
  • - Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level

Experience

Essential criteria
  • -Evidence of delivering pharmaceutical services to paediatric patients
  • - Identify and manage the risks for the service
  • - Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
  • - To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
  • Deliver pharmaceutical services to a medical speciality including the preparation, submission and monitoring of high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests (IFRs)
  • - Demonstrate innovation
Desirable criteria
  • To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
  • Have managed clinical pharmacy services in nutrition
  • - Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
  • - To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
  • To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a research component, or equivalent published evidence.
  • To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty

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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
William Thornhill
Job title
Clinical Lead Pharmacist Women's & Children's
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02071885049
Additional information

Sian Gaze - [email protected]

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