# Lead Neonatal Pharmacist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-neonatal-pharmacist/bfa476db-2696-4c9a-a2d8-246b5b991f0f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-neonatal-pharmacist/bfa476db-2696-4c9a-a2d8-246b5b991f0f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Salary:** £66274.00 to £73496.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-27T14:39:13.513Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8185561 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8185561?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated pharmacist to join the Women's and Neonatal Pharmacy Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. This Lead Specialist Neonatal Pharmacist post has been created as part of a wider service transformation programme, aimed at delivering an outstanding pharmacy service for neonatal patients in line with NHS England service specifications for neonatal care. As the Lead Neonatal Pharmacist, you will play a key role in developing and delivering high-quality clinical pharmacy services, ensuring the safe, effective and cost-efficient use of medicines within this complex and high-risk specialty. Working closely with the Senior Lead Pharmacist for Women's and Neonatal Services, multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders, you will contribute to service development, champion excellence in clinical practice, and build your expertise in neonatal care. The post also includes deputising for the Senior Lead Pharmacist for Women's and Neonatal Services when required. This will involve supporting the leadership and delivery of pharmacy services across both neonatal and women's health specialties. This role is ideally suited to a pharmacist with hospital pharmacy experience, particularly in neonatology, paediatrics and/or women's health, who is passionate about developing specialist expertise and contributing to the advancement of high-quality patient care within these services. ### Main duties of the job - To lead on clinical pharmacy services for patients within the Neonatal service, part of the Women's and Neonatal Pharmacy service. - To actively contribute to the management of drug expenditure through regular analysis and reporting; to monitor and audit the use of high cost / PBR excluded drugs within neonates. - To actively support medicines management requirements of the Neonatal service, including the provision of education and training to members of the multi-disciplinary team. - To support, develop and monitor the progress of pharmacy staff within the speciality. - To actively contribute to the development, monitoring and integration of written policies/guidelines and procedures covering all aspects of pharmaceutical care within women and neonates. - To provide a comprehensive ward pharmacy service within the Women and Neonatal (W+N) service and to train other pharmacists in this specialty. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant post registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy. - Solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines’ information, aseptic services, ward services and dispensing). - Practical clinical experience in neonatal and/or paediatric services. - Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients **Desirable** - Ordering of standard and/or bespoke PN for paediatric/neonatal patients - Practical clinical experience in Women’s Health - Project management and delivery experience. ### Education / Qualifications **Essential** - Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent - Registered with the GPhC. - Diploma in clinical pharmacy practice or equivalent. **Desirable** - Appropriate short Management courses - Independent / Supplementary prescriber (be willing to undertake as part of professional development) - Member of relevant professional bodies e.g NPPG, BAPM etc ### Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities **Essential** - Ability to communicate highly complex information. - Demonstrated expert clinical knowledge and skills in the relevant specialist area. e.g. paediatric/neonatal. - Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems in the relevant specialist area. - Demonstrate the ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities in the relevant specialist area. **Desirable** - Has clear examples of service change and project management - Has previous clear examples of innovation within clinical services ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 393.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10489446) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements form (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10489447) ## 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.