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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 7
Contract
1 permanent and 1 x 9 month fixed term
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
Job ref
196-LIS9680
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Pharmacy - Paediatric Services
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 p.a inc. of HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/07/2025 23:59

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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Paediatrics

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

To deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services to paediatric services at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital in accordance with the objectives set by the Lead Pharmacists. To act as a role model in the paediatric pharmacy field and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for paediatric areas in line with placement site corporate objectives and NHS Plan. There are a number of rotations available, including, cardiology,  renal, neurology, respiratory, metabolic, general paediatrics, PICU and surgery. The rotations may be cross site between the Royal Brompton and the Evelina Children's Hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

To deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services to different clinical areas within the Royal Brompton and Evelina London Children’s Hospital and to act as a role model in the paediatric pharmacy field and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for paediatric areas in line with placement site corporate objectives and NHS Plan.

Working for our organisation

Evelina London Children's Hospital is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

We provide hospital care and treatment at both our purpose-built children’s hospital on the St Thomas’ Hospital site and at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital.  We care for families in our local areas and provide an extensive range of specialist services for children with rare and complex conditions from across south London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

 

The Evelina Children's Hospital site

Based in a stunning purpose-built building at St Thomas', our hospital includes:

  • 151 inpatient beds, including 30 intensive care beds
  • 52-cot neonatal unit
  • 5 operating theatres, plus 1 cardiac theatre in East Wing, St Thomas'
  • a full children's imaging service with MRI scanner, x-ray and ultrasound
  • a kidney dialysis unit
  • an outpatients department and a medical day care unit
  • a hospital school
  • a day surgery unit

This  hospital includes its own stand alone dispensary and pharmaceutical services.

Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals sites

Provide specialist children’s services for heart and lung conditions at Royal Brompton Hospital and children’s heart and lung outpatient services at Harefield Hospital.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Leadership

To assist in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to Children’s Services in accordance with the priorities set by the Lead Pharmacists in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.

2. Management of Service

To provide clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to Children’s Services in accordance with the priorities set by the post holder, and Lead Pharmacists in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.

3. Evaluation of Service

To contribute to monitoring of clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to Children’s Services in accordance with the objectives set by the post holder and Lead Pharmacists in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of drugs in these patients.

4. Clinical Practice

To act as a clinical role model for paediatric pharmacists and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients

5. Research and Development

To develop clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted in Children’s Services in accordance with the objectives set by the post holder and Lead Pharmacists in order to advance the safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.

6. Education and Training
To participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
To identify own training needs
To actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
To maintain a portfolio of practice

7. To maintain a Broad Level of Pharmacy Practice
To participate in other areas of clinical pharmacy practice in order to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge
To undertake duties over the weekend and bank holidays and be involved in 7 day a week working .
To participate in the paediatric back-up service
To liaise with other clinical pharmacists to ensure efficient transfer of drug related care.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Clinical experience in paediatric medicine and surgery
  • Previous experience in delivering training and education
  • Experience of multidisciplinary health services working
  • Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical experience in obstetrics and neonatology
  • Previous experience in delivering training and education at undergraduate or post graduate level
  • Demonstration of active participation in multi-disciplinary health care research
  • Registered Independent Prescriber
  • Previous experience of using electronic prescribing software

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Masters degree in Pharmacy
  • Pre-registration training
  • Specialist pharmacy knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent training or experience
Desirable criteria
  • Independent Prescribing qualification.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Meets set targets and expected levels of practice as defined by others
  • Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
  • The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work
  • Understanding of national and local priorities
  • The ability to identify and manage risks
  • Can work autonomously
  • Ability to evaluate quality of own work
  • Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
  • Demonstrates competent level of clinical reasoning and judgement
  • Enhances the quality of patient care
  • Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
  • Integrates research evidence into practice
  • Ensures ward pharmacists training needs are identified and met and evaluates service provision
  • Identifies own training needs and maintains a portfolio of practice
Desirable criteria
  • Identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services to the Medical/Surgical Specialities
  • Identifies and implements best practice and demonstrates innovation
  • Demonstrated ability to influence practice at a directorate level
  • Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
  • Demonstration of the ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities
  • Demonstrates ability to implement risk management procedures
  • Can delegate authority appropriately
  • Manages difficult and ambiguous problems and tolerates uncertainty
  • Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focussed approach
  • Undertakes own research
  • Evaluates the training provided and actively seeks novel opportunities to meet training needs
  • Actively seeks to improve the ward and clinical services provided

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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
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02071885049
Additional information

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