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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (November 2025 to November 2026)
Hours
Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref
392-RNOH-1277
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore, Middlesex
Salary
£61,631 - £68,623 Per annum (pro rata) including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/09/2025 17:00

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Specialist Pharmacist, Homecare Services

Band 8a

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 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

This is an exciting part-time role (18.75 hours per week)  and requires an innovative individual who will be responsible for progressing the Pharmacy department’s Homecare Service as part of a team. It is for a 12-month fixed term contract. You will have the characteristics of a self-motivated, dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking individual with excellent communication skills, a background in acute hospital pharmacy service provision such that you can provide leadership and clinical expertise to support the existing Pharmacy Homecare Service.

There will be opportunities to lead, undertake and publish research as part of an innovative Pharmacy team.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with our consultants and nurses in rheumatology and metabolic bone disease amongst other teams, you will:

•    Provide clinical leadership and expertise for Pharmacy Homecare consultations and homecare queries
•    Maintain clinical knowledge in areas where the supply of medicines is available via the homecare route, with particular focus of new therapies and changes in clinical use of existing therapies and local treatment protocols
•    Coordinate processes for the introduction of homecare services for new medicines, including the development and implementation of local policies, in liaison with the procurement team and homecare providers
•    Lead the development and review of homecare service SLAs, service specifications, prescription forms and patient information
•    Participate in service review meetings between multidisciplinary clinical teams and homecare providers in relation to specific homecare service level agreements, and provide specialist pharmacy input to ensure compliance with professional, clinical and operational standards

 

Working for our organisation

RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details of duties and responsibilities.

Key relationships include:

  • Medical Director (and their Deputy)
  • Director of Nursing (and their Deputy)
  • Deputy Director of Quality
  • Chief Pharmacist (and their Deputy)
  • Senior Pharmacy Managers
  • Rheumatology and Metabolic Bone MDTs
  • Quality and Patient Experience Department
  • Quality Improvement Team
  • Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Team
  • Pharmacy Department
  • All other healthcare professionals, especially medical and nursing staff
  • Patients and their carers
  • Finance Department
  • NCL Medicines Optimisation Network
  • Other NHS organisations
  • Commissioners – ICB and NHSE
  • Homecare Service Providers
  • External customers/providers

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Master’s Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
  • Current GPhC registration
  • Higher Degree / Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable criteria
  • Appropriate management or leadership course
  • Specialist courses in quality improvement methodologies
  • Independent Prescriber (or plan in place to work towards qualification)
  • Member of the RPS
  • Designated prescribing practitioner (or plan in place to work towards this)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience as a clinical pharmacist (post-qualification)
  • Experience of delivering a strategy / programme
  • Demonstrable use of clinical audit and/or quality improvement methodologies to improve practice
  • Directorate pharmacist experience, including working with key stakeholders to implement strategic objectives and deliver CIPs
  • Experience in delivering training and education
  • Practical clinical experience
  • Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of leading and managing teams and individuals
  • Experience of delivering a homecare service
  • Experience of managing funding applications for PbR excluded drugs
  • Experience with biologic medicines used to treat auto-immune conditions

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrates ability to negotiate successfully with key stakeholders to drive change
  • Good ability to organise and prioritise work
  • Analytical ability for problem solving (innovative approach i.e. ‘thinks outside of the box’)
  • Ability to analyse data and produce reports
  • Good ability in using computer systems including excel, word, and powerpoint
  • Demonstrates a collaborative attitude through working in a cross-functional manner
  • Demonstrates ability to give constructive feedback
  • Ability to identify and manage risks
Desirable criteria
  • Advanced experience with Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint, and Word
  • Digitally skilled (comfortable with using technology to enhance job role and outcomes)
  • Has coached/mentored/ line managed individuals/teams

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkBronze Trailblazer by Race Equality MattersDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldAccredited Menopause Friendly EmployerRoyal College of Anaesthetists AccreditedCareLeaver CovenantThe Employer Standards provide a clear framework to businesses of all shapes and sizes to maximise the impact of employer engagement with young people, ensuring mutual value and long-term business success

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
Gaurang Purohit
Job title
Deputy Chief Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 9095410
Additional information

Please contact Gaurang Purohit (Deputy Chief Pharmacist), should you require further information (0208 954 2300 - ext. 5445).

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