Highly Specialist Pharmacist (SCD & WLCH)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Site Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Town London. Job ref 289-WLCH-103. Contract Permanent plus oncall and weekend working allowance. Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week.
Salary £66,274 – £73,496 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro rata). Closing 30/06/2026 23:59.
Job overview
This is an opportunity to join a vibrant, forward‑thinking Specialist Care Division & West London Children’s Healthcare Directorate at a time of growth and innovation. If you’re passionate about delivering exceptional clinical pharmacy services and want to make a real impact across women’s, neonatal and paediatric care, this role offers the perfect platform. You’ll be at the heart of a specialist service that plays a key role in women’s health and paediatrics. Your clinical insight will directly influence the safe, effective and evidence‑based use of medicines across the Directorate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide and manage pharmaceutical services to the Specialist Care Division & West London Children’s Healthcare Directorate in accordance with the needs of the Division. They will work with senior clinicians to determine medicines related cost pressures, monitor and review prescribing practice, and help clinicians to ensure effective, safe, evidence‑based and cost‑effective prescribing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Senior Pharmacist will also maintain a regular clinical commitment to both women and paediatric wards, provide informational support for division and specialist pharmacists, deputise for the Lead Directorate Pharmacist when required, and have an interest in paediatric respiratory medicine beneficial for the role.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
- Vocational master’s degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent) + completion of pre‑registration training
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
- MSc. in Clinical Pharmacy
- Registered independent Pharmacist prescriber
Experience
- Experience as an advanced level clinical pharmacist practitioner, able to demonstrate a high level of competency e.g. equivalent to achieving Excellence in the majority of competency in all clusters within the Advanced Level Framework, except Management and R&D which may be at foundation level.
- Significant specialist experience in delivering Paediatric (or neonatal) services at an advanced level of practice
- Significant specialist experience in delivering maternity services at an advanced level of practice
- Variety of clinical practice to include medical and surgical rotations
- Experience of delivering education and training at a post‑graduate level
- Supervision of others
- Clinical Audit to improve practice
- Experience in paediatric respiratory medicine
- Multidisciplinary health services research
- Education and Training in a multidisciplinary environment
- Staff management e.g. recruitment, appraisal, training, sickness absence
Skills and knowledge
- Meets set targets
- Identifies and implements best practice
- Influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
- Advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and manages difficult and ambiguous problems
- Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
- Word processing, email and accurate data entry skills
- Understanding and implementation of Trust and national priorities
- Identify and manage risks
- Can delegate authority appropriately
- Evaluate quality of own work and service quality
- Expert clinical reasoning and judgement
- Advanced level of clinical knowledge and skills assessed through competency framework
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
- Integrates research into practice
- Good oral and written communication and presentation skills to convey highly complex and potentially highly sensitive information to patients, carers and other practitioners
- Service audit and evaluation
- Identifies own training needs. Actively seeks novel opportunities to meet training needs
- Maintains a broad level of pharmacy practice
- Ensures others training needs are identified and met
- Identifies appropriate measures of service
- Evaluation of team’s work
- A whole-system, patient‑focussed approach
- Integrates research evidence into practice
- Evaluates training provided
- Ensures others training needs are identified and met
- Enthusiasm for the position
- Lead by example
- Methodical with attention to detail
- Friendly, empathetic and reliable team worker able to relate to all grades of staff
- Ability to cope well within a busy environment
- Putting patients first
- Responsive to patients and staff
- Open and honest
- Unfailingly kind
- Determined to develop
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.
The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates.
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