Principal Pharmacist, Critical Care and Surgery.

NHS; Carshalton; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Pharmacist for Critical Care and Surgery. This role involves providing a high-quality specialist service in intensive care and surgical support, ensuring optimal patient care through effective medication management. You will lead a dedicated pharmacy team, collaborate with multidisciplinary professionals, and contribute to the development of treatment guidelines. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a diverse healthcare environment, where your expertise will help shape the future of patient care.

Qualifications

• Proven clinical skills and initiative required for high-quality specialist service.
• Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy service to designated wards.
• Lead and manage pharmacy staff in Critical Care and Surgery.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving Skills

Time Management

Change Management

Education

Masters in Pharmacy Degree - MPharm

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

CMM Pharmacy Computer System

Electronic Prescribing Systems

Job description

Go back Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Principal Pharmacist, Critical Care and Surgery.

The closing date is 12 May 2025

We are looking for someone with proven clinical skills, initiative and excellent communication skills to join our team to provide a high quality specialist service to intensive care and support the surgical care of our patients.

You will spend a considerable portion of the day on ICU, working closely with the multidisciplinary team, attending the multidisciplinary ward round and providing pharmacy support and advice. You will also be involved in the development of Trustwide treatment guidelines and protocols, divisional reporting, clinical audit, risk management and multi-professional teaching. You will represent pharmacy in the adult nutrition team and provide cover when required for paediatric and neonatal PN.

As the 8a for critical care, based at St Helier, you will line manage the Band 7 rotational pharmacists HDU/surgical (based at Epsom hospital) and the pharmacy team supporting critical care and surgery on both sites. You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist Planned and Critical Care to lead on dissemination of critical care and surgical issues across the Trust.

The post includes participation in the late duty, weekend, bank holiday and on-call (EDC) rotas.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to designated wards in conjunction with other clinical and junior pharmacists.
• To provide advice and day to day clinical supervision for the pharmacy team working in Critical Care and Surgery promoting evidence-based, cost-effective use of medicines
• To promote safe, responsible, cost effective prescribing and usage of medicines, in line with the formulary, to optimise clinical outcomes and minimise adverse reactions and errors.
• To lead and manage other pharmacy staff working in the Critical Care and Surgery team to ensure service delivery to agreed standards in line with business planning requirements.
• To liaise with appropriate MDT colleagues to ensure the implementation of National/Local guidelines related to medicines to optimise patient care and promote best practice.
• To work with senior pharmacy management team to monitor and evaluate medicines expenditure across the Trust, identifying and putting plans in place to address cost pressures and Cost Improvement Plan

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Masters in Pharmacy Degree - MPharm
• 1 year pre-registration training Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
• Member of the faculty of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or working towards) at Faculty Advanced Stage II or Advanced level practice against the Core Advanced Curriculum

Experience & Knowledge

• Extensive post registration hospital experience at least Band 7 level
• Significant and relevant clinical experience working in areas linked to Critical Care
• Demonstrates evidence of excellent clinical knowledge and skills
• Understanding of current national standards, guidelines and service developments linked to Critical Care and Surgery.
• Experience of developing and leading on projects including change management and service development
• Experience of Parenteral Nutrition
• Knowledge of CMM (formerly JAC) pharmacy computer system
• Risk management and assessment
• Procedure and business plan writing
• An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the hospital setting

Skills/abilities

• Excellent organisational and time management skills-self and others.
• Computer literate including familiarity with electronic prescribing systems
• Demonstrates initiative and problem solving skills
• Able to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff
• Up to date on changes to pharmacy and hospital standards
• Ability to implement and manage change
• In-depth understanding of the principles of Quality Improvement

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.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

£59,490 to £66,239 a yearPro-rata pa inc HCAS (Outer London)