# Highly Specialist Pharmacist (SCD & WLCH) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-pharmacist-scd-and-wlch/06afa2ab-a116-49e2-919f-2ef3fbda2fd3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-pharmacist-scd-and-wlch/06afa2ab-a116-49e2-919f-2ef3fbda2fd3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum incl. HCAS (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent: plus oncall and weekend working allowance - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-16T14:22:04.243Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Chelsea_Westminster_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacist/Pharmacist-v8042542 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8042542?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. 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. See attached document for further details. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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. See attached document for further details. ## 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 ## Documents - [recruitment pack (pdf, 2.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1313) - [policy statement (pdf, 144.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=891) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 85.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=890) - [functional requirements (pdf, 528.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10331125) - [staff benefits and wellbeing (pdf, 177.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1256) - [8a jd and person specification (docx, 554.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10381258) ## 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.