# Specialist Pharmacist ICU > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-pharmacist-icu/e76db99b-9c52-457b-bd89-2558c966832d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-pharmacist-icu/e76db99b-9c52-457b-bd89-2558c966832d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-14T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-28T11:30:53.044Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8262353 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8262353?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Ready for a new and rewarding challenge? We’re seeking a motivated and dedicated Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic team delivering high-quality pharmacy services across Critical Care, Theatres, and Pain Services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. In this pivotal role, you’ll work closely with lead pharmacists and a multidisciplinary team across multiple sites, supporting a diverse patient population. Alongside developing your clinical expertise, you’ll also have the opportunity to grow your leadership and management skills through: - Active participation in multidisciplinary ward and board rounds, promoting safe, effective, and patient-centred prescribing and medicines use. - Involvement in clinical audits, research, and service evaluation. - Supporting the design and implementation of new pharmacy services, guidelines, and policies. - Assisting Lead Pharmacists and Divisions in managing medication expenditure. - Contributing to the education, training, and supervision of pharmacy, medical, and nursing staff. Our Trust hosts three major Intensive Therapy Units (ITUs) across St Mary’s, Hammersmith, and Charing Cross Hospitals, with approximately 95 beds and care provided to nearly 1,700 patients annually. If you’re passionate about innovation, collaboration, and delivering exceptional care, we’d love to hear from you. ### Main duties of the job - Provide a high quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service to critical care patients. - Ensure the safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs. - Identify and promote best practice. - Actively contribute to the management of drug expenditure through analysis and reporting. - Actively contribute to the management of Payment by Results (PBR) excluded drugs. - Assist in incident reporting, investigation and implementation of actions/changes where needed. - Assist with managing supply problems. - Actively contribute to the development and monitoring of policies and guidelines. - Carry out audits as required. - Undertake training of other pharmacists on aspects of critical care. - Undertake education and training to the pharmacy department, ICU nurses, ICU medical staff, theatres staff as required. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - This must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice. - Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients within a MDT - Experience of delivering education and training - Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice or service improvements **Desirable** - Previous ITU ward experience - Previous experience of attending consultant-led ward rounds - Previous experience of managing specialist services ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent experience - Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council - FS1 of the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice (UCL) or other certificate equivalent **Desirable** - FS2 of the Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice (UCL) or equivalent - Independent Prescriber (Non Medical Prescriber) Pharmacist ### Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities **Essential** - Ability to communicate complex information and able to adapt communication style appropriately to the content and context - Good clinical practice knowledge - Ability to influence medical staff and the multidisciplinary team - Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda **Desirable** - Word and Excel at an advanced level - Demonstrated ability to evaluate and improve service quality ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 300.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10576308) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements form (pdf, 121.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10576309) ## 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.