Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Asthma and integrated respiratory care

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

An esteemed NHS foundation trust in London is seeking a Highly Specialist Pharmacist to join their respiratory care team. The role involves supporting patients with asthma and COPD through innovative pharmaceutical services, backed by the trust's commitment to clinical excellence and high-quality patient care.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience within clinical pharmacy services.
• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services to respiratory patients.
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and evaluate medicines optimisation in respiratory medicine department.
• Support and improve care for patients with respiratory diseases in primary care.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Pharmacy Practice

Independent prescribing qualification (working towards)

Job description

Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Asthma and integrated respiratory care

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday core hours with rostered working on weekends and bank Holidays and emergency duty commitment) Job ref 196-LIS9598

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Guy's Hospital Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc. HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 12/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 17/06/2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity for a committed, innovative and experienced clinician to join our successful respiratory pharmacist team.

Working with the respiratory consultant pharmacist, and other members of the well-established multidisciplinary asthma and COPD teams, you will support patients to get the most from their medicines, delivering local and national priorities to improve the lung health of the people we care for. There is significant opportunity to publish the outcomes of practice based research, provide training for a wide range of pharmacy, medical and other healthcare professionals and develop professionally/personally in line with the Advanced Level Framework.

A post-graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy and independent prescribing qualifications are required, as will the demonstration of a breadth of clinical pharmacy practice at an appropriate level. Experience of working with people with an airways disease to promote adherence, home administration of biologic therapy and research would be advantageous.

Main duties of the job

To deliver, develop and evaluate medicines optimisation in the respiratory medicine department (primarily within airways disease: asthma and COPD), in accordance with the objectives agreed with the respiratory consultant pharmacist . To provide a consistently high and innovative pharmaceutical servicein line with the Trust Clinical Strategy, the NHS Plan and other major drivers for service standards. A key role of the position holder is to support and improve the care provided to patients with respiratory disease in primary care.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age. See www.kingshealthpartners.org .

Organisational Strategy and Values:

The Trust strategy sets out what we will do, the values help us to define how we do it. The post holder will be:

· Ambitious – Innovate and strive for excellence.

· Inclusive - Respect others and work collaboratively.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about this role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please seethe Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Skills and abilities

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Has presented a poster at national or international conference
• Has published in a peer reviewed journal

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Working towards or willing to work towards an independent prescribing qualification with airways disease within their scope
• Other clinical practice qualification
• Research qualification

Experience

• Significant post registration experience, within general medicine clinical pharmacy services
• Relevant experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services to respiratory patients
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience of provision of Homecare to patients
• Experience in delivering pharmaceutical services to patients with severe asthma and/or COPD.
• Experience of working in general practice
• Experience of working in ICB (or equivalent)
• Experience of out-patient clinic work

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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