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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills and Competencies
Specialist competencies in areas relevant to practice
- Skills and Competencies
Be able to provide highly complex information on pharmacy and financial issues and impart knowledge to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor/executive director level)
- Skills and Competencies
Be able to provide highly complex information on medicines use and financial issues to multidisciplinary groups involving staff outside of Pharmacy (e.g. DTC, Non-Medical Prescribing Group, Divisional Management Teams, Clinical Effectiveness)
- Skills and Competencies
Be able to provide highly complex information on pharmacy business planning and emergency planning to national organisations and at national/international conferences
- Skills and Competencies
Be able to use presentational aids
- Knoweledge and Experience
Able to identify and deliver best practice
- Knoweledge and Experience
Able to demonstrate innovation
- Knoweledge and Experience
Demonstrates an advanced level of reasoning & judgment
- Knoweledge and Experience
Maintains a broad level of pharmacy practice
- Knoweledge and Experience
Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda
- Education and Qualification
Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)
- Education and Qualification
Registered Pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council)
- Education and Qualification
Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
- Education and Qualification
Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education and Qualification
Registered Independent Prescriber or willingness to complete
- Education and Qualification
Member of the RCPharm faculty
Job overview
The post holder will work alongside the Deputy Chief Pharmacist for Emergency Planning and Business Development to help provide professional and strategic leadership and advice to the Chief Pharmacist, and the Trust, on contingency planning necessary within Pharmacy to handle a range of emergency situations. They will be responsible for helping develop action plans, as well as preparing and conducting exercises to train staff as needed. The post holder will also support and deputise for the Deputy Chief Pharmacist for Emergency Planning and Business Development and in the completion of transformation work ensuring that departmental functions continue to meet business needs.
Main duties of the job
- Develop and implement plans within Pharmacy, aligned with Trust Policy, to handle a range of emergency situations including major incidents, pandemics & extremes of weather.
- Collect and analyze numerous data sets to support service delivery development.
- Accountability for preparing and conducting exercises in the department to ensure staff can carry on functioning in the event of an emergency and are familiar with Trust & Departmental procedures.
- Responding to incidents, helping assess the situation and level of response required liaising directly with the Chief Pharmacist, other Deputy Chief Pharmacists as required and / or Trust Site Team
- To be a representative for Trust Emergency Planning Group and a member of the NHSE Emergency Planning Pharmacy Group
- To develop and coordinate the implementation of Pharmacy Business Continuity Plans alongside the Deputy Chief Pharmacist for Emergency Planning and Business Development
- Helping ensure quality standards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are agreed and in place for any new service/ business developments in the department.
- Accountability for monitoring departmental functions and developing processes to meet business needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and personal specification for additional details regarding the role.
Please also contact Deputy Chief Pharmacist Emergency Planning & Business Development ( see contact information) for further insight into position.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Principal Pharmacist emergency Planning & Business Development with King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £75,328 - £86,114 per annum, inc HCA. The contract type is 6 months (Fixed Term 6 months). The application deadline is 24 Sep 2026.
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