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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.
This role will be to provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service within the Specialist Care (SCD) & West London Children’s Healthcare (WLCH) ensuring high quality, safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the speciality. The Senior Pharmacist will maintain a regular clinical commitment to both women and paediatric wards and will provide information support for division and specialist pharmacists and will deputise for the Lead Directorate Pharmacist when required. An interest in paediatric respiratory medicine would be beneficial for this role.
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.
Along with working with senior clinicians on determining medicines related cost pressures for the Specialist Care Division & West London Children's Healthcare Directorate.
The post holder will also monitor and review prescribing practice within the Specialist Care Division & West London Children's Healthcare Directorate and to work with clinicians to ensure effective, safe, evidence based and cost effective prescribing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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. Along with working with senior clinicians on determining medicines related cost pressures for the Specialist Care Division & West London Children's Healthcare Directorate. The post holder will also monitor and review prescribing practice within the Specialist Care Division & West London Children's Healthcare Directorate and to work with clinicians to ensure effective, safe, evidence based and cost effective prescribing.
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Person specification
Experience
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- 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
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
Trust values
Essential
- Putting patients first
- Responsive to patients and staff
- Open and honest
- Unfailingly kind
- Determined to develop
Personal qualities
Essential
- Enthusiasm for the position
- Lead by example
- Self-starter
- 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
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Meets set targets
- Identifies and implements best practice
- Can demonstrate innovation
- 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
- Works autonomously
- 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
Desirable
- Ensures others training needs are identified and met
- Identifies appropriate measures of service
- Evaluation of team’s work
- Tolerates uncertainty
- A whole-system, patient-focussed approach
- Integrates research evidence into practice
- Evaluates training provided
Education and qualifications
Essential
- Vocational master’s degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent) + completion of pre-registration training
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent general experience)
Desirable
- MSc. in Clinical Pharmacy
- Registered independent Pharmacist prescriber
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This advert is for Highly Specialist Pharmacist (SCD & WLCH) with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum incl. HCAS (pro rata). The contract type is Permanent: plus oncall and weekend working allowance. The application deadline is 30 Jun 2026.
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