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Job requirements
Essential
39 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Ability to manage and supervise staff
- Knowledge
Leading and Implementing change
- Knowledge
Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff
- Knowledge
Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure
- Knowledge
Project Management Experience
- Experience
Relevant Hospital Pharmacy experience, including recent clinical/ward pharmacy experience
- Experience
HIV/ID, SRH Hospital pharmacy experience
- Experience
Ability to critically review services and Processes
- Experience
Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace
- Experience
Ability to work unsupervised and alone
- Experience
Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
- Experience
Use of search engines/medical databases to retrieve information
- Experience
Relevant staff management experience
- Experience
Integrate research evidence into practice
- Experience
Project management experience
- Experience
Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice
- Experience
Understanding of Formulary & Drug Use Review issues
- Trust committments
Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to work under pressure
- Skills and aptitudes
Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills
- Skills and aptitudes
Computer literate
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to innovate and implement change
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysis
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to lead service
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to motivate, influence and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team and management.
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to work with colleagues as part of a team
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to resolve conflict
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively
- Skills and aptitudes
Demonstrate analytical and reasoning skills
- Skills and aptitudes
Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy maybe contentious or complex
- Personal qualities and attributes
Enthusiastic, well motivated, hardworking, punctual
- Personal qualities and attributes
Identifies own training needs; actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice
- Personal qualities and attributes
Flexibility to work weekends, Bank Holidays, late duties and oncall and potential 7 day working, potential cross site working
- Personal qualities and attributes
Reliable with good attendance record
- Education and professional qualifications
MRPharmS or equivalent
- Education and professional qualifications
Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Education and professional qualifications
Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it
- Education and professional qualifications
Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it
- Education and professional qualifications
Advanced qualification in specialist area or equivalent Good Clinical Practice
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education and professional qualifications
Independent non medical prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it
- Education and professional qualifications
Management qualification or equivalent experience
Job overview
The post holder will provide support as required to the clinical pharmacy services, dispensary, production and medicine information services and medicines management programme and assist in planning and delivery of education and training within the pharmacy department and HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health and Infectious Diseases teams
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for providing a highly specialist clinical and professional pharmaceutical service to HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health and Infectious diseases teams based North Middlesex University Hospital.
The post holder will be expected to work closely with the multidisciplinary team, consultants and service managers of these specialty areas.
The post holder is responsible for ensuring that appropriate mechanisms are in place to promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety and clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines.
The post holder will advise on drug budget management in these areas and undertake clinical audit to continually improve the quality of the service provided.
The post holder is responsible for developing policies and guidelines as required to ensure safe clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines in these areas, and across the interface between primary and secondary care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this role.
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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This advert is for Band 8a Highly Specialist Pharmacist - HIV and Infectious diseases with Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 Oct 2026.
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