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Essential
35 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Education & training skills
Previous experience in delivering education and training within pharmacy
- Education & training skills
Identifies and meets own training needs
- Research & development skills
Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
- Research & development skills
Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in acute medicine
- Research & development skills
Maintains a portfolio of practice
- Management & leadership skills
Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Management & leadership skills
Experience in co-ordinating the day-to-day practice activities of others
- Management & leadership skills
Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service
- Management & leadership skills
Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Management & leadership skills
Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activity
- Management & leadership skills
Collates data regarding service provision
- Management & leadership skills
Ability to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
- Management & leadership skills
Demonstrates initiative
- Management & leadership skills
Ability to work autonomously
- Management & leadership skills
The ability to identify and manage risks
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
The ability to identify and prioritise own clinical workload
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Maintains standards of patient care
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Ability to identify and undertake clinical audit
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to practice within acute medicine, and respects confidentiality
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Minimum of five years’ experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner Substantial post-registration experience
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Experience of clinical service provision to acute surgical patients
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in General Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Registered Independent Prescriber
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Maintains a broad knowledge of pharmacy practice
Desirable
24 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education & training skills
Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
- Education & training skills
Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
- Research & development skills
Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Research & development skills
Integrates research evidence into practice
- Management & leadership skills
Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Management & leadership skills
Experience in management of others
- Management & leadership skills
Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Management & leadership skills
Ability to utilise AI, data analysis tools, or other relevant applications to support and enhance work activity
- Management & leadership skills
Evaluates service provision
- Management & leadership skills
Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
- Management & leadership skills
Demonstrates innovation
- Management & leadership skills
Delegates authority appropriately
- Management & leadership skills
Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options in gastroenterology patients
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Enhances the quality of patient care
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
- Clinical & interpersonal skills
Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
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
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Identifies best practice
- Qualifications, knowledge & competence
Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses
Job overview
Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Surgical Specialties ICU and Thoracic
1 WTE (37.5hrs/week) – Fixed-term for10months
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 full-time, as part of the wider UCLH Pharmacy team.
You will work as full time within the Surgical Specialties multidisciplinary team (MDT), delivering the highest quality service for both inpatients and outpatients, alongside the ICU, 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.
Main duties of the job
Your duties will include collaborating closely with the Urology, Thoracic and ICU 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 thoracic & 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
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
You will also contribute to the delivery of educational and developmental programmers, including the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, and our rotational programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists.
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.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?
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 Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Thoracic and ICU Services with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is 8 months (Fixed term until 21st May 2027). The application deadline is 14 Sep 2026.
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