# Band 8a Highly Specialist Pharmacist - HIV and Infectious diseases > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-highly-specialist-pharmacist-hiv-and-infectious-diseases/825f0b25-6d33-4672-8ef9-3039bb0fc5cd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-highly-specialist-pharmacist-hiv-and-infectious-diseases/825f0b25-6d33-4672-8ef9-3039bb0fc5cd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** North Middlesex University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 per annum inclusive of HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (late duty, weekends, oncall and bank holidays) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-06T11:25:37.983Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/london/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8321081 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8321081?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to manage and supervise staff - Leading and Implementing change - Ability to deal directly with public, senior clinicians & other health service & pharmaceutical industry staff - Experience of managing or advising on drug expenditure - Project Management Experience ### Experience **Essential** - Relevant Hospital Pharmacy experience, including recent clinical/ward pharmacy experience - HIV/ID, SRH Hospital pharmacy experience - Ability to critically review services and Processes - Effective organisation and prioritisation skills in the workplace - Ability to work unsupervised and alone - Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required - Use of search engines/medical databases to retrieve information - Relevant staff management experience - Integrate research evidence into practice - Project management experience - Understanding of risk management with medicines usage practice - Understanding of Formulary & Drug Use Review issues ### Trust committments **Essential** - - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments ### Skills and aptitudes **Essential** - Ability to work under pressure - Effective verbal and written communication skills with all disciplines, colleagues & patients and good presentation skills - Computer literate - Ability to innovate and implement change - Ability to carry out drugs usage review and drug expenditure analysis - Ability to lead service - Ability to motivate, influence and persuade senior pharmacy and medical staff, the MDT team and management. - Ability to work with colleagues as part of a team - Ability to resolve conflict - Ability to monitor service provision and use performance indicators proactively - Demonstrate analytical and reasoning skills - Ability to demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application including where therapy maybe contentious or complex ### Personal qualities and attributes **Essential** - Enthusiastic, well motivated, hardworking, punctual - Identifies own training needs; actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice - Flexibility to work weekends, Bank Holidays, late duties and oncall and potential 7 day working, potential cross site working - Reliable with good attendance record ### Education and professional qualifications **Essential** - MRPharmS or equivalent - Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) - Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it - Post graduate diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent, or currently working towards it - Advanced qualification in specialist area or equivalent Good Clinical Practice **Desirable** - Independent non medical prescribing qualification, or currently working towards it - Management qualification or equivalent experience ## Documents - [functional requirements (pdf, 392.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10646605) - [highly specialist pharmacist - hiv/id (pdf, 360.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10646603) - [ps - highly specialist pharmacist hiv/id (pdf, 214.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10646604) - [medical and dental - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 655.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2754) - [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 637.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.