# Principal Pharmacist emergency Planning & Business Development > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-pharmacist-emergency-planning-and-business-development/d9e63d9f-4903-47c9-8bac-f7e10de9a83a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-pharmacist-emergency-planning-and-business-development/d9e63d9f-4903-47c9-8bac-f7e10de9a83a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** King's College Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £75,328 - £86,114 per annum, inc HCA - **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed Term 6 months) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-24T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-10T13:21:08.457Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Kings_College_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8121220 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8121220?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills and Competencies **Essential** - Specialist competencies in areas relevant to practice - 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) - 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) - Be able to provide highly complex information on pharmacy business planning and emergency planning to national organisations and at national/international conferences - Be able to use presentational aids ### Knoweledge and Experience **Essential** - Able to identify and deliver best practice - Able to demonstrate innovation - Demonstrates an advanced level of reasoning & judgment - Maintains a broad level of pharmacy practice - Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda ### Education and Qualification **Essential** - Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) - Registered Pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council) - Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice - Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification **Desirable** - Registered Independent Prescriber or willingness to complete - Member of the RCPharm faculty ## Documents - [band 8b jd (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10604976) - [denmark hill site map (pdf, 1.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=606) - [princess royal (pruh) site map (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=607) - [visa and sponsorship information (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2817) ## 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.