Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Medical Specialties

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced senior clinical pharmacist to join our Medical Specialties Division at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).

This new role offers the opportunity to lead and coordinate clinical pharmacy services across outpatient Medical Specialties areas including rheumatology, endocrinology, dermatology, respiratory and cardiology, while also supporting inpatient activity. You will play a key role in ensuring safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines across a diverse and complex patient cohort.

Working closely with the Lead Clinical Pharmacist – Rheumatology and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to service development, medicines optimisation, governance and quality improvement initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinical pharmacist looking to further develop leadership, independent prescribing and service development skills within a dynamic teaching hospital environment.

Closing date: Two weeks after advertisement Interview date: Ten days after closing date

Main duties of the job

You will lead and coordinate the day-to-day clinical pharmacy service to outpatient Medical Specialties, ensuring safe, effective and patient-centred medicines optimisation across rheumatology, endocrinology, dermatology, respiratory and cardiology services. Working in close partnership with consultants, nursing colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality clinical care and support service development within the Division. This will include active participation in MDT meetings, governance forums and clinical discussions to promote high-quality, patient-centred care.

You will act as a senior clinical resource for medicines use within Medical Specialties, promoting safe prescribing, high-quality documentation and seamless communication across care interfaces.

You will support the operational delivery of homecare services and high-cost drug processes, ensuring timely clinical screening, Blueteq registration and compliance with commissioning requirements. In collaboration with divisional and finance colleagues, you will collate and analyse medicines expenditure data to inform divisional reporting and value initiatives.

The role includes active involvement in medicines-related governance activity, including incident review, audit and service evaluation. You will lead and implement quality improvement initiatives to enhance safety, efficiency and patient experience, while supporting research within the Division.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

As part of the wider clinical pharmacy team, you will contribute to the implementation and evaluation of local and national initiatives to further develop our services. You will also support the delivery of educational and developmental programmes, including UCL School of Pharmacy undergraduate clinical placements, the JPB Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for Band 7 clinical pharmacists.

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* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

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