Band 8b Principal Pharmacist Surgery

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS trust in London seeks a Surgery Pharmacist (Grade B8b) for a permanent position, focused on high-quality clinical pharmacy care for surgical patients. Responsibilities include leading a pharmacy team, developing service initiatives, and ensuring safe medication practices. This role offers unique career opportunities within a diverse environment, reflecting the organization's commitment to delivering excellent healthcare.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Generous benefits

Next level training opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in inpatient post-surgical care and perioperative medication management.
• Leadership in development of pharmacy services.

Responsibilities

• Lead surgical pharmacy team to deliver high-quality patient care.
• Strategically develop clinical pharmacy services across multiple sites.
• Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds.

Skills

Patient centred care

Clinical pharmacy

Risk management

Cost-effective prescribing

Education

BSc

Post graduate clinical diploma

Job description

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Main area Surgery pharmacist Grade B8b Contract Permanent Hours Job share - 15.56 hours per week (1 in 12 Saturday or Sundays and 1 in 6 late duty) Job ref 391-RFL-7198735

Site Royal Free Hospital Town London Salary £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inclusive of HCAS ( Part time pro-rata ) Salary period Yearly Closing 16/06/2025 23:59

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

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 for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

This role is to lead the surgical pharmacy team to deliver high quality patient centred care to peri and post-operative patients across the Royal Free London NHS Trust

Main duties of the job

To lead, strategically develop and deliver a consistently high-quality clinical pharmacy service to surgical patients across all sites of the Royal Free London NHS Trust through the participation in multidisciplinary ward rounds and team meetings. The postholder will develop initiatives and guidelines to ensure the safe and cost-effective prescribing of medicines within the specialist area to optimise clinical outcomes and minimise adverse reactions and errors. Therefore, leading on risk management issues related to medicines within the directorate and undertaking clinical audit to continually improve the quality of the service provided

The postholder will also develop the role of the Preoperative Assessment (POA) pharmacist and lead on the provision of pharmacy services to the Preassessment/POA Clinical Team.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job description and personal specification attached.

Main responsibilities include:

Inpatient post surgical clinical pharmacy care

Perioperative care in regards to medicines

Managed entry of new medicines

Management of surgical pharmacy team

Education and training

Person specification

Qualifications

• Bsc
• Post graduate clinical diploma

Qualifications

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Please note:

• Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
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