Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Medicines CIPs

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London seeks a senior pharmacist to enhance medicines optimisation and patient care. This role involves managing medicines efficiencies, supervising teams, and contributing to clinical research, all within a multidisciplinary environment. Candidates must be registered pharmacists with significant hospital experience and strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience in hospital pharmacy.
• Experience in supervising and training staff.
• Knowledge of medicines management systems.

Responsibilities

• Support divisional teams in delivering medicines efficiencies.
• Manage audit projects and medicines efficiency work-plan.
• Lead on delivery of medicines Cost Improvement Plans.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Numeracy skills

Customer service skills

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Teaching and mentoring

Education

Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC

Independent prescribing qualification

Specialist postgraduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice

Job description

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Client:

Barts Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

23.05.2025

Expiry Date:

07.07.2025

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Job overview

Do you want to join an award-winning department that puts clinical pharmacists at the forefront of medicines optimisation and patient care?

The Pharmacy Department at Barts Health covers a population of 2.5 million. We provide medicines management and medicines optimisation services from our four hospital sites across the City of London and East London.

We are looking for a senior pharmacist to work with the pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary team in delivering medicines efficiencies and identifying medicines related financial risk. You will be assisting with the identification and facilitating the implementation of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) programmes for medicines, and to share schemes with other local providers to ensure consistency across the health economy.

You will also be expected to contribute to the research agenda working with staff across the Pharmacy department and student placements.

Main duties of the job

·To support the Royal London divisional and pharmacy teams in delivering medicines efficiencies and identifying medicines related financial risk.

·To manage the overall medicines efficiency work-plan, providing monthly status reports and assisting teams in achieving deadlines.

·To manage audit projects to assess outcomes and to assist in development and interpretation of key metrics.

·To lead on delivery of medicines Cost Improvement Plans (CIPs), tracking and reporting on progress.

·To contribute to the work to deliver transformation projects as required, and to be the project lead for selected projects.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience

• • Significant post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy, working with MDTs
• • Experience in supervising and organising staff and work
• • Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting through training others e.g. trainee pharmacists and foundation training pharmacists
• • Experience of training other healthcare professionals both individually and in groups
• • Experience of working with prescribing data
• • Experience of carrying out audit and project management work
• • Experience of working with clinical directorates
• • Experience of managing and developing staff
• • Experience of working as a pharmacist in primary care

Skills

• • Excellent interpersonal skills
• • Able to deliver key messages succinctly and professionally both verbally and in writing
• • Able to complete documentation accurately with attention to detail
• • Able to accurately follow written procedures under pressure
• • Demonstrates numeracy skills and ability to perform accurate, complex calculations
• • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self, and others
• • Able to work unsupervised and under pressure
• • IT literate; able to use Microsoft office with intermediate IT skills including, accurate data entry and use of specialist computer programmes
• • Demonstrates effective customer service skills
• • Good team worker
• • Evidence of good ward practice
• • Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients and their loved ones
• • Demonstrates ability to deliver staff training, with excellent teaching and mentoring skills
• • Accountable for own professional actions and responsibilities
• • Demonstrates expert ability to critically evaluate information and apply to problem solving
• • Demonstrates vision and innovation with the ability to implement change through effective strategy and planning
• • Demonstrates ability to think logically and reason
• • Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others
• • Ability of be flexible and manage change in a complex and changing healthcare environment
• • Ability to negotiate with and influence others
• • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of healthcare professional
• • Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work / service

Knowledge

• • Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
• • Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
• • Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
• • Understanding of stock control systems
• • Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs of cancer chemotherapy, and HIV, gastroenterology and rheumatology patients
• • An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to all patients, and how they relate to pharmacy and medicines management in particular those relating to NICE
• • Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
• • Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
• • Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
• • Awareness of and commitment to clinical governance
• • Understands Government policy and vision for the development of health and social care

Qualifications

• • Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• • Independent prescribing qualification (or willing to work towards)
• • Specialist postgraduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent knowledge and clinical experience
• • Specialist postgraduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent knowledge and clinical experience
• • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)