Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular (Vascular)

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS is seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to lead and deliver integrated pharmacy services focused on cardiovascular patient care. This permanent, full-time role located at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital offers an opportunity to significantly contribute to high-quality healthcare while mentoring junior staff and driving service improvements.

Qualifications

• MPharm degree and a higher degree in Pharmacy Practice required.
• Registration with GPhC and as a non-medical prescriber.
• Evidence of training and evaluation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical pharmacy services to patients with cardiovascular conditions.
• Support and train junior pharmacists while developing services.
• Ensure safe and effective drug use and manage clinical governance.

Skills

Communication

Organisational Skills

Clinical Governance

Pharmaceutical Care

Motivational Skills

Education

MPharm degree

Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice

Non-medical prescriber course

Job description

Job summary

To support leading, delivering, developing and evaluating clinical pharmacy services to patients in cardiovascular in accordance with the objectives set between the Specialty Clinical Lead, Directorate General Manager and Principal Pharmacist Cardiovascular. To be a role model in the field of cardiovascular and provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service for patients in line with GSTT corporate objectives.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the team, you will support the delivery of clinical services to patients with cardiovascular disease. See JD and PS for further details.

About us

The cardiovascular services at our foundation trust are one of the largest and most comprehensive in the UK. We are looking for an experienced and committed clinical pharmacist to deliver clinical pharmacy services to our directorates. Essentially you should be able to demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients with cardiovascular diseases. See JD and PS for further details.

Details Date posted

30 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£61,927 to £68,676 a year p.a inclusive of HCA

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

196-LIS9589

Job locations

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Job description Job responsibilities

You will work in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorates targets. This will include delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a range of patients with cardiovascular conditions, supporting and training junior pharmacists, whilst also maintaining and developing the services further both within the primary and secondary care. This post may require cross site working across our partner organisations.

Candidates should have demonstrable competencies in hospital clinical pharmacy practice, excellent communication skills and commitment to pharmaceutical care. Furthermore candidates should be highly organised and have experience in delivering specialist pharmacist led clinics and clinical commissioning of high cost medicines. See JD and PS for further details.

Job description Job responsibilities

You will work in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorates targets. This will include delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a range of patients with cardiovascular conditions, supporting and training junior pharmacists, whilst also maintaining and developing the services further both within the primary and secondary care. This post may require cross site working across our partner organisations.

Candidates should have demonstrable competencies in hospital clinical pharmacy practice, excellent communication skills and commitment to pharmaceutical care. Furthermore candidates should be highly organised and have experience in delivering specialist pharmacist led clinics and clinical commissioning of high cost medicines. See JD and PS for further details.

Person Specification Knowledge/Qualifications Essential

• MPharm degree
• Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
• Successfully completed an approved course for non-medical prescriber
• Registration with GPhC
• Registered with the appropriate healthcare regulator as an non-medical prescriber

Desirable

• RPS Faculty Membership

Skills Essential

• Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in acute and/or specialist medicine
• Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine patients
• Deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
• Identify and promote best practice
• Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
• Motivate and inspire others
• Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives

Desirable

• Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 3 environment
• Clinical experience in the community setting
• Demonstrate innovation
• Extend the boundaries of the profession
• Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level

Experience Essential

• To have managed an area of clinical pharmacy services
• Identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
• Ensure national and local agendas are delivered
• Establish processes for the setting of standards of care
• Identify and manage changes that need to occur to achieve these
• Identify and manage the risks involved
• Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
• To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
• To identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget

Desirable

• To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
• Have managed clinical pharmacy services in cardiovascular
• Reconcile national priorities with local realities
• Work across traditional boundaries
• Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
• To promote Improvements in Working Lives
• To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
• To demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders and the profession

Experience Essential

• To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
• Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice
• Integrate research evidence into practice.
• Identify gaps in the evidence base
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
• Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided

Desirable

• To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a research component, or equivalent published evidence
• Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
• Undertake own research
• Guide and support others undertaking research
• Co-ordinate the undergraduate and preregistration student clinical activity

Skills Essential

• To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
• Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
• Provide education and training to pharmacy and other staff
• Evaluate the training provided
• Participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
• Identify own training needs
• Actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
• Maintain a portfolio of practice

Desirable

• To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a teaching component, or equivalent evidence of teaching experience
• To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
• Develop strategies to meet the training needs of staff
• Previous experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates

Person Specification Knowledge/Qualifications Essential

• MPharm degree
• Higher degree / Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, or equivalent experience
• Successfully completed an approved course for non-medical prescriber
• Registration with GPhC
• Registered with the appropriate healthcare regulator as an non-medical prescriber

Desirable

• RPS Faculty Membership

Skills Essential

• Demonstrable ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in acute and/or specialist medicine
• Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine patients
• Deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
• Identify and promote best practice
• Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
• Motivate and inspire others
• Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives

Desirable

• Clinical experience in intensive care or another level 3 environment
• Clinical experience in the community setting
• Demonstrate innovation
• Extend the boundaries of the profession
• Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level

Experience Essential

• To have managed an area of clinical pharmacy services
• Identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
• Ensure national and local agendas are delivered
• Establish processes for the setting of standards of care
• Identify and manage changes that need to occur to achieve these
• Identify and manage the risks involved
• Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
• To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
• To identify changes in prescribing practices that may impact on the drugs budget

Desirable

• To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
• Have managed clinical pharmacy services in cardiovascular
• Reconcile national priorities with local realities
• Work across traditional boundaries
• Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
• To promote Improvements in Working Lives
• To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
• To demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders and the profession

Experience Essential

• To demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
• Demonstrate a critical approach towards pharmacy practice
• Integrate research evidence into practice.
• Identify gaps in the evidence base
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines
• Actively seek to improve the ward and clinical services provided

Desirable

• To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a research component, or equivalent published evidence
• Demonstrates critical approach to development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
• Undertake own research
• Guide and support others undertaking research
• Co-ordinate the undergraduate and preregistration student clinical activity

Skills Essential

• To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
• Identify training needs of staff in order to undertake the roles required
• Provide education and training to pharmacy and other staff
• Evaluate the training provided
• Participate in the clinical training of the ward pharmacists
• Identify own training needs
• Actively seek novel opportunities to meet training needs
• Maintain a portfolio of practice

Desirable

• To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a teaching component, or equivalent evidence of teaching experience
• To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty
• Develop strategies to meet the training needs of staff
• Previous experience of delivering teaching or training to undergraduates

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road

London

SE1 7EH

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)