Highly Specialist Pharmacist Paediatric Nutrition

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking a Highly Specialist Pharmacist focused on Paediatric Nutrition to join their dedicated team at Evelina London Children's Hospital. In this role, you will lead and provide clinical pharmacy services that ensure high-quality pharmaceutical care for pediatric patients. This fixed-term position offers the opportunity to work alongside motivated pharmacists and technicians dedicated to enhancing patient care in pediatric nutrition.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy and GPHC Registration required.
• Evidence of delivering pharmaceutical services to paediatric patients is crucial.
• Experience in managing clinical pharmacy services in nutrition is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the provision of paediatric pharmacy nutrition service.
• Evaluate clinical pharmacy services and develop processes for high-cost medicines.
• Act as a role model in paediatric nutrition pharmacy fields.

Skills

Identify and promote best practice

Deliver clinical governance

Motivate and inspire others

Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services

Manage risks for the service

Evaluate pharmaceutical and financial information

Demonstrate innovation

Education

Masters Degree in Pharmacy

Higher Degree / diploma in clinical practice

Recognised post graduate qualification with a research component

Job description

Go back Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Pharmacist Paediatric Nutrition

The closing date is 13 July 2025

We are looking for a committed Highly Specialist Pharmacist with excellent paediatric, pharmaceutical and Paediatric Nutrition skills for a fixed term position at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. The successful applicant will be working with a team of highly motivated and experienced pharmacists and technicians providing patient-centred pharmaceutical care to paediatric patients.

Main duties of the job

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services within ELCH to the Paediatric Nutrition service in accordance with the objectives set by the Clinical Lead Pharmacist. To act as a role model in the paediatric nutrition pharmacy fields. To provide a consistently high pharmaceutical service in line with GSTFT corporate objectives and NHS Plan.

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate the processes for approval, appropriate use and audit of high cost medicines commissioned by NHS England (NHSE) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's) in accordance with the objectives set by the Paediatric Clinical lead Pharmacist.

About us

Evelina London

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy's and St Thomas'.

We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life for children, young people and for women from London, South East England, and - for some rare conditions - around the UK and the world.

As the only NHS Trust in London with women's and specialist children's services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high-quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. We operate through four clinical directorates: Neonatology and Medical Specialties, Surgical Services, Theatres and Paediatric Intensive Care, Children's Community Services and Women's Services.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be leading on the provision of the paediatric pharmacy nutrition service to within the Evelina. For a comprehensive overview, please consult the attached job description.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy
• Higher Degree / diploma in clinical practice
• GPHC Registration
• RPS Faculty Member
• RPS membership

Skills

• - 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
• Identify and manage the risks for the service
• To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via IFRs
• - Extend the boundaries of the profession
• - Ensure that issues related to pharmaceutical care are appropriately represented at directorate or equivalent level

Experience

• -Evidence of delivering pharmaceutical services to paediatric patients
• - Identify and manage the risks for the service
• - Delegate authority appropriately to junior staff
• - To provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information including high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests
• Deliver pharmaceutical services to a medical speciality including the preparation, submission and monitoring of high cost medicines funded via individual funding requests (IFRs)
• - Demonstrate innovation
• To have a recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
• Have managed clinical pharmacy services in nutrition
• - Evaluate performance of junior staff against identified criteria using Trust IPR tools
• - To identify new prescribing practices that may impact budget (horizon scanning)
• To have a recognised post graduate qualification with a research component, or equivalent published evidence.
• To demonstrate the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in a clinical specialty

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£61,927 to £68,676 a yearp.a. inc. HCA pro rata