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Job overview
Are you ready for a new challenge? We are looking for an experienced pharmacist to join our friendly paediatric pharmacy team at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.
What you’ll do:
- Deliver high-quality pharmaceutical care for children and young people with haemoglobinopathies and bone marrow failure syndromes as part of our stem cell transplantation programme.
- Help manage medicines governance and support cost-effective prescribing.
- Provide training and teaching for pharmacists and the wider team.
- Support risk management, audit and quality improvement.
- Support new drug applications.
- Provide clinical and specialist support to the outpatient pharmacy partnership.
- Deputise for the Senior Lead Pharmacist and other Leads, when needed.
Who we’re looking for:
- Solid foundation experience with hospital paediatric pharmacy.
- Specialist experience in stem cell transplantation (training can be supported)
- Systemic anti-cancer treatment (SACT) or cytotoxic accreditation in paediatrics.
What we offer:
- A welcoming, enabling environment where everyone is valued.
- Strong support for your education and training.
- Opportunities to broaden your experience and progress your career
Why join us?
- Be part of a team delivering cutting-edge therapies to children undergoing stem cell transplantation.
- Lead and mentor junior pharmacists, including managing a band 7 W&C pharmacist and supporting trainees.
Main duties of the job
- Deliver high-quality pharmaceutical care for children and young people with haemoglobinopathies and bone marrow failure syndromes as part of our stem cell transplantation programme.
- Develop and advance the service.
- Develop and review clinical guidelines and procedures.
- Help manage medicines governance and support cost-effective prescribing.
- Provide training and teaching for pharmacists and the wider team.
- Support risk management, audit and quality improvement.
- Support new drug applications.
- Provide clinical and specialist support to the outpatient pharmacy partnership.
- Deputise for the Senior Lead Pharmacist and other Leads, when needed.
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.
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
Skills
Essential
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and senior management.
- Ability to analyse and provide valuable insight from drug usage reports.
- Able to work under pressure and make clinical decisions with limited information.
- Demonstrates good understanding of key NHS objectives and international standards relevant to the role
Desirable
- Microsoft Office applications at an advanced level
- Communicates best practice both inside and outside the organisation
- Demonstrate leadership skills
- Practice research
Education
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Active registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Completed Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy practice or equivalent experience
- Undertakes continuing professional development (CPD) and maintains a CPD portfolio
- BOPA SACT passport accreditation or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) membership
- Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) membership
- Non-medical prescriber annotation with GPhC
- UK BMT passport accreditation
- Management/Leadership qualifications
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration training and experience in hospital pharmacy including significant experience in paediatric pharmacy.
- Evidence of experience in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines Information, ward services and dispensing)
- Evidence of experience in haematology/oncology, stem cell transplantation and verification of cytotoxics
- Multi-disciplinary ward round experience
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, assimilate and communicate complex therapeutic options for patients.
Desirable
- Previous experience in managing staff and conducting appraisals
- Financial reporting and management of appropriate clinical medicines expenditure
- Paediatric TPN experience, aseptics experience
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This advert is for Lead Pharmacist Paediatric Haematology & BMT with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in St Marys Hospital. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 pa Inclusive. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 07 Sep 2026.
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