Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2329
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist- Virtual Wards
Band 8a
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 an experienced clinical pharmacist ready to lead innovative care pathways and shape the future of medicines optimisation across both virtual and acute settings? We are recruiting a Lead Pharmacist for Virtual Wards, with a key leadership role supporting Acute Medicine across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
In this dynamic and forward looking role, you will lead the delivery of a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service for our expanding Virtual Wards programme, supporting patients to receive safe, effective hospital level care in their own homes.
You will provide clinical leadership, medicines governance expertise and strategic input to the Virtual Wards Steering Group.
Alongside this, you will work closely with the Senior Lead Pharmacist to strengthen clinical pharmacy services within the Acute Medical Units and Urgent & Emergency Medicine. Your contribution will be central to ensuring cohesive, high quality medicines optimisation across busy acute care pathways.
If you are passionate about advanced clinical practice, digital innovation, multidisciplinary collaboration and delivering exceptional patient care, this role offers the platform to make a meaningful impact.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the specialist clinical pharmacy service for Virtual Wards, ensuring safe and effective medicines optimisation for patients receiving hospital level care at home.
- Provide advanced clinical reviews, identify and resolve complex prescribing issues, and contribute to MDT decision making.
- Support timely medicines reconciliation, discharge planning and continuity of supply to enable seamless patient care.
- Work alongside the Senior Lead Pharmacist to strengthen clinical pharmacy services across the Acute Medical Units and Urgent & Emergency Medicine.
- Contribute to developing clinical guidelines, medicines related policies and safe prescribing initiatives aligned with Trust and national standards.
- Promote evidence based, cost effective use of medicines and positively influence prescribing practice across clinical teams.
- Lead or support quality improvement, audit and service development projects that enhance patient outcomes and pharmacy practice.
- Provide clinical leadership and mentorship to pharmacy colleagues and help support the training and education of the wider MDT.
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
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent relevant experience).
- Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced clinical practice modules or equivalent advanced training.
- Leadership or management training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience as a clinical pharmacist in a hospital setting.
- Experience delivering clinical pharmacy services in acute or general medicine.
- Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience supporting service development, clinical governance or quality improvement initiatives
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Virtual Wards, remote monitoring or integrated care models.
- Experience developing clinical guidelines, PGDs or policies.
- Experience in research, audit or medicines safety initiatives.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical reasoning, problem solving and decision making skills
- Strong clinical knowledge relevant to acute, general and emergency medicine.
- Ability to influence prescribing and negotiate constructively with clinicians
- Ability to lead and support service development across teams and sites
Desirable criteria
- Project management or formal quality improvement skills.
- Understanding of integrated care pathways and ICS/ICB medicines optimisation priorities.
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]
- Telephone number
- 07825022191
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