Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 343-7325707-FM-AG
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helier Hospital
- Town
- Carshalton
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 Pro-rata pa inc HCAS (Outer London)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Pharmacist, Outpatients Services
Band 8a
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to manage our busy team as Principal Pharmacist, Outpatients services.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to lead and develop the Trust’s outpatient pharmacy service.
Epsom and St Helier Hospitals have retained in-house outpatient dispensing, with the pharmacy team managing the supply of medicines across the full range of specialties seen in our clinics.
We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring leader who will transform the service for our patients. The successful candidate will re-invigorate and reinvent our processes, delivering a professional, efficient, and compassionate pharmacy service.
Main duties of the job
You will need to have had hospital experience to understand how hospital prescribing, hospital only and formulary medicines work and perhaps you will also have experience of community pharmacy from which you can bring your commercial skills.
This is a senior role requiring someone with proven managerial and change management skills and experience. You will be working with a team of pharmacy assistants, technicians and pharmacists on two sites who are passionate about delivering a high class service.
If you’d like to be a part of a team that offers a supportive and collaborative environment fostering growth and development, where your contributions are valued and recognised, we invite you to apply.
**Please note this vacancy is for our St Helier site with a 1-day a week commitment at the Epsom site.**
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The post includes participation in the late duty, seven day, bank holiday and senior on-call rotas.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Masters in Pharmacy Degree – MPharm
- 1 year pre-registration training Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Member of the faculty of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or working towards) at Faculty Advanced Stage II or Advanced level practice against the Core Advanced Curriculum
- Independent Prescriber
- Leadership/management qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration hospital experience at least Band 7 level
- Staff management Experience of clinical trials
- Demonstrates evidence of excellent clinical knowledge and skills
- Understanding of current national standards, guidelines and service developments linked to areas covered by Medicine.
- Staff training and appraisal and service development
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of CMM (formerly JAC) pharmacy computer system
- Risk management and assessment
- Complaint handling
- Experience using KPIs to monitor a servicectice in the hospital setting
Skills/abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational skills-self and others.
- Computer literate including familiarity with electronic prescribing systems
- Demonstrates initiative and ability to multi-task
- Excellent time management
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work
Desirable criteria
- Up to date on changes to pharmacy and hospital standards
- Ability to implement and manage change
- Appreciation of audit methods
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Iram Naseem
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Patient Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 296 4033
- Additional information
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact Iram Naseem on
07554 779030 or [email protected].
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