Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 308-CORP-3177
- Employer
- London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Waterloo HQ, Hither Green, IUC sites and Trust-wide.
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Governance Pharmacist
Band 8a
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.
We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city. We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.
We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.
We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time
Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.
Job overview
We are excited to offer a rare opportunity for a pharmacist to join the Pharmacy team at the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust and lead medicines governance across the organisation. This is a unique, cross-cutting role that works with operational, clinical and corporate teams to ensure consistent medicines governance practice across the Trust. The post holder will be expected to work on-site.
We are an inclusive and well respected team. We will support you to develop and grow your pharmacy skills both practically and strategically. We are looking for a GPhC registered pharmacist who is dynamic and willing to learn in a new and developing environment.
Main duties of the job
• Delivery of medication governance across the Trust. They will provide managerial support to the Pharmacy Technician Specialists.
• The post-holder will be involved with work streams of project management, stakeholder engagement, creation and critical review of innovative developments to enable seamless medicines management across the LAS.
• The Medicines Governance Pharmacist will require a detailed understanding of medicines use, patient safety, a record of experience in pre-hospital medicine, non-medical prescribing and urgent care pathways.
• The post-holder will act as a role model to the LAS, promoting the training and development of Trust staff in the field of medicines management and governance, embracing innovative ways of working and provide a consistently high-quality service on behalf of the LAS in line with corporate objectives and national policy.
• Due to the nature of the role, it may be expected that the post-holder will frequently travel between stakeholder organisations and across Trust locations.
Working for our organisation
Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
- Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
- Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Leadership
- To apply core and specialist pharmaceutical skills in order to plan, support, monitor and review medicines management initiatives
- To work closely with the Associate Chief Pharmacist and Medication Safety Officer in providing safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines across a range of relevant clinical areas, promoting the image of LAS by working in accordance with our vision and values.
- Responds to technical medicines information enquiries, and provides complex information in a format that is suitable for healthcare professionals and patients; regarding storage,
handling and reconstitution doses of drugs in the ambulance service
Operational Delivery
- To apply core and specialist pharmaceutical skills in order to plan, support, monitor and review medicines management initiatives.
- To support the Chief pharmacist in providing safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines across a range of relevant clinical areas, promoting the image of LAS by
working in accordance with our vision and values.
Please see attached Job Description to see the full list of the responsibilities for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm) with one year pre-registration training
- Currently registered with the GPhC
- Independent prescriber
- Post graduate degree in Management or equivalent training with applied experience
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant management experience at the same or similar level
- Significant experience in the pre-hospital setting and urgent care
- Previous work with or within a NHS Trust
- Significant experience in working in complex systems and evidence of contributing to systems’ or and service development
- Significant experience of providing clinical care and service delivery
- Significant experience of interprofessional and multi-disciplinary working
- Significant experience in developing, implementing and updating Standard Operational Procedures, specifications and other documents
- Significant experience in analysing and interpreting complex data
- Experience of writing highly complex reports often involving confidential and politically sensitive data
- Significant experience of analysing and interpreting Adastra® (or similar) and ePACT systems
- Significant experience of analysing and interpreting medicines usage data
- Experience of writing highly complex reports often involving confidential and politically sensitive data
- Experience of managing a team.
- Experience in leading service delivery for a function
- Experience in leading and managing the introduction of new medicines and services across a large organisation.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in an Ambulance Trust or equivalent experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates diverse clinical knowledge and extensive critical appraisal skills
- Specialist knowledge in undertaking human resource and budget management
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Demonstrable leadership, methodology design and participation in clinical audit
- Previous experience of delivering educational material to multidisciplinary colleagues and the ability to provide a range of options when opinions may differ
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sumithra Maheswaran
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07506650759
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
220 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8SD
- Telephone
- [email protected]
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