Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1985
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 Inclusive pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacist Emergency, Acute & Elderly Medicine
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you a motivated and dynamic pharmacist looking to steer your career in a diverse and rewarding clinical environment? Seeking a change and new opportunities? Then you have reached the right place! We are looking for a dedicated Band 7 Pharmacist to join our multidisciplinary team and want to hear from you.
Join one of London's leading Trusts and be part of a progressive and dynamic environment where you can build a rewarding career in pharmacy as a Pharmacist working within our Acute Medical Units (AMU), Acute Assessment Units (AAU) and Elderly Medicine wards at Charing Cross and St Mary’s hospitals. You will be part of one of the largest teams in our Pharmacy Department, already comprising of a group of extremely friendly and aspirational people.
You will play a pivotal part in our services, providing support and working closely with medical, nursing, pharmacy staff and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) on a regular basis. Alongside attending ward rounds, you will also have the opportunity to partake in various MDT teaching, audits and service improvement projects. This is a unique oppurtunity to work at the forefront of patient care and support some of our most vunlerable populations. Each site will also provide unique insights and opportunities for your own development and to collaborate with our fabulous teams.
Apply now and let your passion for clinical pharmacy shine!
Main duties of the job
• Attend regular consultant-led Post-Take Ward Rounds and Medicine for the Elderly ward rounds
• Provide an extended hours clinical pharmacy service to the AMU and AAU wards which includes working early and late shifts as well as regular weekends
• Be a key member of the multidisciplinary team
• Provide education and training to the multidisciplinary team
• Give advice at the point of prescribing thereby ensuring adherence to Trust policies and promoting antimicrobial stewardship
• Supervise and train junior pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, Medicines Management Pharmacy Technicians (MMPTs) and Assisstant Technical Officers (ATO's)
• Further develop your clinical and management skills
• To lead on medicine management initiatives for Emergency, Acute and Elderly Medicine patients
• To prepare expenditure reports for Emergency, Acute or Elderly Medicine directorates and attend directorate meetings if required.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Member of the GPhC
- FS1 of the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice (UCL) or other certificate equivalent
Desirable criteria
- FS2 of the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice (UCL) or other equivalent certificate
- Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- This must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines information, aseptic services, ward services and dispensing)
- Experience in delivering training and education
- Experience in management of others. Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients
- Practical clinical experience including attendance of consultant-led ward rounds Previous experience in delivering training and education
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of managing specialist services
- Clinical guidelines development
- Planning and developing services
Skills/ Knowledge / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate complex information
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems in the relevant specialist area
- Good understanding of complex medicines use at ward level; effective policies and risk within the relevant specialist area
Desirable criteria
- Word and Excel at an advanced level
- Communicates best practice outside the organisation
- Demonstrated ability to identify training needs of others
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Seham Hussein Jama
- Job title
- Senior Lead Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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