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Principal Pharmacist, Outpatients Services

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Location
Salary
£61,631 - £68,623 Pro-rata pa inc HCAS (Outer London)
Profession
Pharmacist
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
27 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
14 Jul 2025

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to manage our busy team as Principal Pharmacist, Outpatients services.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to lead and develop the Trust’s outpatient pharmacy service.

Epsom and St Helier Hospitals have retained in-house outpatient dispensing, with the pharmacy team managing the supply of medicines across the full range of specialties seen in our clinics.

We are looking for a dynamic and inspiring leader who will transform the service for our patients. The successful candidate will re-invigorate and reinvent our processes, delivering a professional, efficient, and compassionate pharmacy service.

Main duties of the job

You will need to have had hospital experience to understand how hospital prescribing, hospital only and formulary medicines work and perhaps you will also have experience of community pharmacy from which you can bring your commercial skills.

This is a senior role requiring someone with proven managerial and change management skills and experience. You will be working with a team of pharmacy assistants, technicians and pharmacists on two sites who are passionate about delivering a high class service.

If you’d like to be a part of a team that offers a supportive and collaborative environment fostering growth and development, where your contributions are valued and recognised, we invite you to apply.

**Please note this vacancy is for our St Helier site with a 1-day a week commitment at the Epsom site.**

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

The post includes participation in the late duty, seven day, bank holiday and senior on-call rotas.