Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (maternity cover from September 2025 (expected start date))
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 309-UCLH-6506
- Employer
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University College London Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Critical Care
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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Job overview
We are looking for a proactive and dynamic individual with the requisite knowledge, skills, and experience, to support and further develop our high-quality clinical pharmacy service to the Critical Care Division at UCLH.
You will:
• have some experience in the field of critical care, with a broad base of more general clinical pharmacy skills for patients in a range of different specialties.
• be committed to developing your existing skills in critical care therapeutics & will strive for excellence in your provision of medicines-related support to our critical care units. You will also be confident in your leadership, taking colleagues of various professions with you on a clearly defined direction to service improvement.
• be capable in addressing governance challenges, including the development and introduction of guidelines, policies and procedures; incident, complaint and claim handling & the monitoring and evaluation of services.
• be competent with digital systems and data analysis, including the evaluation of financial reports, and will enjoy maximising the potential of our digital health record and prescribing systems.
Your passion for education & research will be evident, you will thrive on supporting others around you to reach and maintain their full potential. Your thirst for knowledge will drive you to work collaboratively with colleagues in formulating new programmes of research and supporting the delivery of clinical trials within critical care.
Main duties of the job
You will support the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Critical Care on the provision of clinical pharmacy services to the Critical Care Division.
You will act as an expert resource on the safe and effective use of medicines for the Critical Care Division.
As an independent prescriber, you will optimise medication regimens, and apply your specialist pharmaceutical and therapeutic knowledge within the scope of your professional practice. You will also act as a Designated Prescribing Practitioner for others undertaking non-medical prescribing qualifications.
You will support a range of medicines-related clinical governance functions for the Critical Care Division, and will identify and lead on quality improvement projects to enhance the safety, efficacy and/or efficiency of critical care services. You will also lead on audit, service evaluations, and research projects, including the implementation and monitoring of relevant clinical trials.
You will support critical care medicines-related functionality and ongoing development of the UCLH implementation of Epic, the Trust’s digital health record system.
You will provide and comment upon relevant evaluated financial data for medicines expenditure, income, and cost saving or avoidance initiatives.
You will be a role model for junior staff, and support their learning and development, and support education initiatives for pharmacy and other multidisciplinary staff groups on relevant medicines-related matters.
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
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University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
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National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
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Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
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University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
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Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
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University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
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The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
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University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
Person specification
Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Essential criteria
- Bachelor or Masters of Pharmacy degree
- Minimum of three years’ experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner
- Six years post-registration with the GPhC
- Postgraduate Diploma and/or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy and/or General Pharmacy Practice
- Full current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification(s) in critical care
- Undertaken management training courses
Management & leadership skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
Clinical & interpersonal skills
Essential criteria
- Able to identify and undertake clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
Education & training skills
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in delivering education and training within pharmacy
- Identifies and meets own training needs
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
- Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
Research & development skills
Essential criteria
- Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
- Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in acute medicine
- Maintains a portfolio of practice
Desirable criteria
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Integrates research evidence into practice
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
- Nishma Gadher
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Critical Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Nishma Gadher, Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Critical Care, via Microsoft Teams or email ([email protected]), or
Robin Offord, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, via Microsoft Teams or email ([email protected])
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