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Job overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with excellent clinical and interpersonal skills to support a high-quality service to the Surgical Specialist Division based at Westmoreland Street. The post is part-time, and offers scope for flexible working, as part of the wider UCLH Pharmacy team.
You will work as part of the Surgical Specialties multidisciplinary team (MDT), delivering the highest quality service for both inpatients and outpatients, alongside the Thoracic and Urology consultants, clinical fellows, clinical nurse specialists, dietitians and other healthcare professionals.
UCH at Westmoreland Street offers comprehensive care for a spectrum of Urology and Thoracic services and is split into six sub-groups. The teams work closely together, along with other services such as the Assisted Conception Unit and Uro-radiology. Where possible, you will work to develop and enhance our existing systems, particularly where efficiency and productivity can be improved through our Electronic Health Records System, Epic, and the development of GP Connect.
You will work as part of our broader clinical pharmacy team and contribute to local and national initiatives to develop and enhance the pharmacy service. You will also contribute to the delivery of educational and developmental programmes, including the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.
Main duties of the job
Your duties will include collaborating closely with the theatres, anaesthetics and pre- assessment teams, providing specialist advice to optimise patient care. You will use your non-medical prescribing skills in both the inpatient and outpatient setting to optimise the prescribing of specialist and supportive care medications.
The successful candidate will be joining the largest and most prestigious urology department in the UK. We are a highly specialist team, seeing referrals from across the country and internationally. As a centre for excellence and research, you will have an opportunity to contribute to service development and quality improvement projects within urology and thoracic surgery teams.
Additional management and leadership responsibilities for the Surgical Specialties Division include governance, medicines expenditure analysis and reporting, audit and service evaluation, multi-professional education and training, and other strategic projects as required. You will also represent the UCLH Pharmacy Department at directorate and divisional clinical governance meetings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job Description for more information
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* 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.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working
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Person specification
Education & training skills
Essential
- Education & training skills
- Identifies and meets own training needs
Desirable
- Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
- Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
Research & development skills
Essential
- Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
- Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in acute medicine
- Maintains a portfolio of practice
Desirable
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Integrates research evidence into practice
Management & leadership skills
Essential
- Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in co-ordinating the day-to-day practice activities of others
- Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activity
- Collates data regarding service provision
- Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
- Demonstrates initiative
- Ability to work autonomously
- The ability to identify and manage risks
Desirable
- Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Experience in management of others
- Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Ability to utilise AI, data analysis tools, or other relevant applications to support and enhance work activity
- Evaluates service provision
- Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
- DemoDelegates authority appropriatelynstrates innovation
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures
Clinical & interpersonal skills
Essential
- Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
- The ability to identify and prioritise own clinical workload
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
- Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
- Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
- Maintains standards of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
- Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within acute medicine, and respects confidentiality
Desirable
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in gastroenterology patients
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures
Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Essential
- Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Minimum of five years’ experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
- Experience of clinical service provision to acute surgical patients
- Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others
- Maintains a broad knowledge of pharmacy practice
Desirable
- Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to acute surgical patients in the outpatient setting Experience of clinical service provision to level 2 and/or 3 patients
- Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others Identifies best practice A, I
- Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses
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This advert is for Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Surgical Specialties with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of HCAS, (pro-rata for part time). The contract type is Fixed term: 10 months (Maternity leave cover). The application deadline is 26 Jul 2026.
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