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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
309-UCLH-7596
Employer
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
University College London Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£64,156 - £71,148 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/04/2026 23:59

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University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Medical Specialties

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced senior clinical pharmacist to join our Medical Specialties Division at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).

This new role offers the opportunity to lead and coordinate clinical pharmacy services across outpatient Medical Specialties areas including rheumatology, endocrinology, dermatology, respiratory and cardiology. You will play a key role in ensuring safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines across a diverse and complex patient cohort.

Working closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist – Rheumatology and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to service development, medicines optimisation, governance and quality improvement initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinical pharmacist looking to further develop leadership, independent prescribing and service development skills within a dynamic teaching hospital environment.

Closing date: Two weeks after advertisement

Main duties of the job

You will lead and coordinate the day-to-day clinical pharmacy service to outpatient Medical Specialties, ensuring safe, effective and patient-centred medicines optimisation across rheumatology, endocrinology, dermatology, respiratory and cardiology services. Working in close partnership with consultants, nursing colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality clinical care and support service development within the Division. This will include active participation in MDT meetings, governance forums and clinical discussions to promote high-quality, patient-centred care.

You will act as a senior clinical resource for medicines use within Medical Specialties, promoting safe prescribing, high-quality documentation and seamless communication across care interfaces.

You will support the operational delivery of homecare services and high-cost drug processes, ensuring timely clinical screening, Blueteq registration and compliance with commissioning requirements. In collaboration with divisional and finance colleagues, you will collate and analyse medicines expenditure data to inform divisional reporting and value initiatives.

The role includes active involvement in medicines-related governance activity, including incident review, audit and service evaluation. You will lead and implement quality improvement initiatives to enhance safety, efficiency and patient experience, while supporting research within the Division.

 

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: 

  • University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) 

  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery 

  • Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals 

  • University College Hospital Grafton Way Building 

  • Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 

  • University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre 

  • The Hospital for Tropical Diseases 

  • 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.  

As part of the wider clinical pharmacy team, you will contribute to the implementation and evaluation of local and national initiatives to further develop our services. You will also support the delivery of educational and developmental programmes, including UCL School of Pharmacy undergraduate clinical placements, the JPB Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for Band 7 clinical pharmacists.

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
  • Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
  • Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • Minimum of five years’ experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
  • Experience of clinical service provision to acute medical patients
  • Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy
  • Registered Independent Prescriber
  • Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others
  • Maintains a broad knowledge of pharmacy practice
Desirable criteria
  • Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to acute medical patients in the outpatient setting Experience of clinical service provision to level 2 and/or 3 patients
  • Identifies best practice
  • Undertaken management training courses

Management & leadership skills

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities
  • Experience in co-ordinating the day-to-day practice activities of others
  • Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services A, I
  • Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
  • Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activity
  • Collates data regarding service provision
  • Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
  • Demonstrates initiative
  • Ability to work autonomously
  • The ability to identify and manage risks
Desirable criteria
  • Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
  • Experience in management of others
  • Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
  • Ability to utilise database or other software packages to support and enhance work activity
  • Evaluates service provision
  • Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
  • Demonstrates innovation
  • Delegates authority appropriately
  • Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures

Clinical & interpersonal skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
  • The ability to identify and prioritise own clinical workload
  • Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
  • Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
  • Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
  • Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
  • Maintains standards of patient care
  • Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
  • Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit
  • Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
  • Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within acute medicine, and respects confidentiality
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
  • Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
  • Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in gastroenterology patients
  • Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
  • Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
  • Enhances the quality of patient care
  • Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
  • Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures

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

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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
Sejal Amin
Job title
Deputy Director of Clinical Pharmacy
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Sejal Amin, Deputy Director of Clinical Pharmacy via [email protected], or
Robin Offord, Deputy Chief Pharmacist – Clinical Services via [email protected] 



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