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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Non Agenda for Change
Contract
Fixed term: 1 year (Full time - Monday to Friday 9-5:30, some weekend and bank holiday working required)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-3490
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Pharmacy CIC
Town
London
Salary
£57,782.40 - £67,204.80 per annum (Non Agenda for Change)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/11/2025 23:59
Interview date
19/11/2025

Employer heading

Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Outpatient Pharmacy manager - full time (12 month fixed term)

Non Agenda for Change

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

Job overview

We’re Hiring !

Whittington Pharmacy CIC (wholly owned subsidiary of the hospital) is a vibrant state of the art workspace based within The Whittington Hospital, North London.

Our aim is to provide the very best, efficient, safe and friendly service, tailored to the needs of our customers. 

You will be working in a busy but supportive environment alongside an experienced but friendly team, whilst maintaining a healthy work-life balance. This role is perfect for a pharmacist who is looking to expand their clinical knowledge and use it each day in an outpatient setting that has a focus on patient safety and patient experience.  No on-call hours.

This role is suitable for an experienced hospital Pharmacists. Full training and support will be provided to ensure you can confidently  lead the Outpatient Pharmacy team and safeguard our diverse patient cohort (Oncology, Thalassaemia, Dermatology, Paediatrics, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology, TB, General outpatient clinics and A&E).  

Main duties of the job

As a Pharmacy manager, you will be responsible for the provision of exceptional professional pharmacy services. The focus of your role will be to act as a role model and the Responsible Pharmacist and provide support to the Superintendent Pharmacist and help with the day to day running of the Pharmacy and line management duties. You will be working alongside 3 other Pharmacists as well as the rest of the pharmacy team. A comprehensive induction and onsite training will be provided with ongoing training opportunities and exposure to clinical settings. You will help in providing a consistent high quality, accurate, safe and timely  patient experience.

Summary of duties and Pharmacy services:

  • Clinically screening of prescriptions
  • Final accuracy checking of prescriptions
  • Counselling patients for their medication
  • KPI and workflow  management 
  • Line managements
  • Service rota management
  • Procurement oversight and management
  • Provision of Pharmacy services (TBC)

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust  believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information please see the attached JD document and for an informal discussion please contact the Superintendent Pharmacist - Delaram Salehifard

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • GPHC registration
  • Fluent written and spoken English including good numeracy
  • Strong ability to multi-task, prioritise, plan and organise
  • Evidence of clinical problem solving and customer care
  • Strong communication skills – must be able to recognise and overcome barriers to understanding e.g. language, deaf, learning difficulties
  • Strong people skills - able to work with and lead people
  • Good experience of meetings KPIs and managing workflow
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in outpatient Pharmacy

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
  • At least three years of UK Pharmacy experience
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of using JAC/CMM
  • Experience of using prescription tracking systems (PTS)
  • Experience of working in an automated dispensary environment

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Registered with the GPhC with no adverse Fitness to Practice record
Desirable criteria
  • Registered with the GPhC as an Independent prescriber

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Delaram Salehifard
Job title
Superintendent Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0207 288 3387
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