Band 8a Lead Pharmacist- Patient Services | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Senior Pharmacist for Patient Services. You will lead a high-quality clinical pharmacy service, manage operational and strategic components, and ensure governance and compliance within patient care. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in clinical pharmacy, team collaboration, and quality improvement. This position offers a supportive work environment with flexible hours and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous benefits

Next-level training

Qualifications

• Must have experience with patient-focused clinical pharmacy service.
• Experience in quality improvement projects within health services is preferred.
• Strong leadership skills to manage pharmacy staff and services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver high-quality clinical and pharmaceutical service.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams and divisional managers.
• Oversee compliance with local and Trust standards.
• Support education and training activities for pharmacy staff.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy service

Team collaboration

Governance

Quality improvement

Education

Pharmacy degree

Registered with relevant pharmacy regulatory body

Job description

Overview

The Senior Pharmacist for patient services will assist in leading, delivering, developing and evaluating a high quality clinical and pharmaceutical service to inpatients and outpatient services. This includes the responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day service provision, including allocation of staff and provision of cover in the event of sickness.

About the Trust and Department

The Trust takes pride as one of the major specialist centres for infectious diseases, liver and renal transplants, breast and plastic surgery, myeloma, and neuroendocrine tumours. Working in one of the main speciality centres brings exciting opportunities to see a range of patients at different levels of complexities. Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this internationally renowned teaching hospital. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do.

Responsibilities

• Promote governance and the safe use of medicines across the Trust alongside providing a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within a defined clinical specialty.
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary teams, clinical leads, and divisional managers for inpatient MDTU and outpatient services.
• Oversee the operational, clinical and strategic components including being responsible for optimising digital pathways related to Patient Services.
• Have overall responsibility for Patient Services, including ensuring compliance with relevant local, Trust, professional, ethical and regulatory standards.
• Assure compliance of Patient Services with relevant Key Performance Indicators.
• Be involved in quality improvement projects which aim to improve performance within patient services.
• Support with education and training activities of all pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals in the context of patient service activities.
• Support with compliance with external governance requirements relating to patient services.
• Develop tools to capture and analyse performance and report this month.
• Lead on the training and induction of pharmacy staff, ensuring they are adequately trained and supported to carry out their duties.

About the Trust

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Career Opportunities

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.

More Information

For more information please follow https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

This advert closes on Friday 2 Jan 2026.