Specialist Pharmacist, Obesity (Endocrinology) in London

• Specialist Pharmacist, Obesity (Endocrinology)
• NHS Af C: Band 8a

Main area Pharmacist Grade NHS Af C: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (plus out of hours commitment) Job ref 213-Division-A-

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Town London Salary £66,274 - £73,496 (0.6 WTE) Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/ :59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London.

The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance.

In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment.

We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is an exciting new role which has been established to support with delivering the newly established Weight Management Service at King’s College Hospital.

The post holder will work with the Principal Pharmacist for Planned Medicine and wider medical obesity team to establish outpatient clinics for initiating patients on pharmacotherapy.

The postholder will work closely with the wider MDT to monitor and clinically review patients initiated on pharmacotherapy, and play a key role in independently prescribing their ongoing treatment.

The successful candidate will support with the development of treatment pathways both within the organisation and in collaboration with SEL ICB colleagues, offering an excellent opportunity for networking and sharing experiences.

The postholder will also contribute to local audit and key performance indicator monitoring.

The role will also involve working with the wider Endocrinology team to support with delivering departmental priorities.

This role will participate in providing seven day services to the pharmacy department in line with departmental policies, with a need to provide senior on-call support (off-site).

Please get in contact with the Principal Pharmacist for Planned Medicine to discuss this role further:

ext 37844 (Monday-Thursday)

Main duties of the job

The main responsibilities of the post holder will be to

• Deputise for the Principal Pharmacist, Planned Medicine
• Act as a specialist role model and an expert in medical management
• Lead and manage the clinical pharmacy services to Obesity (Endocrinology) in conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist
• Participate regularly in outpatient clinics to deliver and promote high quality, cost-effective and patient-focused pharmaceutical care
• Act as a pharmacist independent prescriber to optimise the care of patients
• Ensure a high level of clinical pharmacy input to the care of patients
• Actively participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds, delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care
• Provide patient and carer education and close liaison across the interface
• Promote safe drug use within the specialty
• Develop, implement and audit local guidelines
• Supervise and train pharmacy staff
• Provide education and training of healthcare professionals within and outside the Trust
• Regular financial reporting, drug usage and expenditure forecasting, and drug budget management
• To participate in practice and clinical research and audit
• To work with the Principal Pharmacist to extend the boundaries of professional practice within the Care Group
• Working for our organisation

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for

. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

• Our six strategic ambitions are delivering high-quality patient care
• ; creating a great place to work
• ; leading pioneering research, innovation and education
• ; building strong and successful partnerships
• ; providing timely and efficient care
• ; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability
• We have also agreed four new organisational values –
• Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative
• and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan.

In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.

Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsiby, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Leadership
• To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist for Planned Medicine as necessary.
• To lead clinical pharmacy services for patients treated within the Planned Medicine in conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist.
• To propose and implement policies and procedures designed to improve the pharmacy service to patients in the Trust in conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist in line with national and international consensus guidelines.
• To lead and comment on policy and service changes and plans within the clinical pharmacy service and to contribute to, and participate in, pharmacy service developments in line with departmental and Trust policy.
• To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate evidence‑based prescribing guidelines and protocols for use both Trust wide and within Planned Medicine.
• To ensure services provided are in line with local and national policies, guidelines and frameworks. To contribute and adhere to clinical pharmacy service standards.
• To proactively support the development of ward and clinical pharmacy services to Planned Medicine to advance the safe, clinically effective and cost‑effective use of drugs.
• To attend relevant meetings, including inpatient and outpatient MDTs.
• To attend Care Group meetings attended by senior management and clinical staff, participating in and representing pharmacy views at such meetings.
• To manage specific service initiatives and changes affecting the clinical pharmacy service in the department and across the Trust.
• Clinical Responsibilities
• To participate in and contribute to the clinical/ward pharmacy service.
• To act as a specialist practitioner within the field and as an expert pharmacist in Planned Medicine.
• To practice as an independent prescriber, in area of own expertise, and provide direct high quality of care to inpatients and outpatients within scope of practice.
• To promote and deliver pharmaceutical care for Planned Medicine patients and more generally for all patients.
• To provide highly specialised and complex evidence‑based clinical advice and information using expert knowledge and experience to pharmacy, nursing, medical and other healthcare professionals on the care and treatment of patients, inside and outside of the Trust.
• To actively participate in consultant ward rounds as appropriate.
• To participate in outpatient clinics and assist in the further development of the pharmacist’s role in this area.
• To actively participate regularly in multidisciplinary ward rounds, antibiotic ward rounds and other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate, delivering and promoting high quality, cost‑effective, patient‑focused pharmaceutical care.
• To participate in patient education and counselling schemes for all Planned Medicine patients/carers.
• To ensure appropriate and timely supply of medication to patients in conjunction with dispensary staff, including the POD scheme and discharge facilitation for patients.
• To liaise with other pharmacists/healthcare professionals to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues.
• To develop shared care guidelines to support GP prescribing as necessary.
• To support the set up and provision of homecare services, as necessary, in line with Royal College of Pharmacy Homecare Services Professional Standards.
• Maintain and further develop specialist information on the use of drugs in clinical conditions relevant to Planned Medicine, ensuring accurate and up to date clinical information is available to all pharmacists performing out‑of‑hours duties in a format relevant to those pharmacists’ needs.
• To participate in Trust adverse incident reporting scheme.
• To support the Principal Pharmacist in monitoring drug expenditure within the Care Group and provide accurate expenditure information, with appropriate analysis, to the Clinical Director and General manager.
• To identify areas of potential cost‑savings within the Care Group, and to implement systems to realise savings and contain prescribing costs.
• Using horizon scanning techniques identify future high-cost medications.
• To support the development and implementation of policies to control drug expenditure and ensure cost-effective prescribing.
• To educate other healthcare professionals on the costs associated with drug therapy and promote evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing within the Care Group.
• To attend Care Group or Specialty financial meetings when required. To work across traditional boundaries e. g. primary and secondary care.
• To monitor all FP10 and homecare prescribing costs and feed those to the Trust, NHSE and IC… when required.
• To optimise the use of homecare providers to ensure VAT savings are realised as necessary.
• Research and Service Development
• To participate in and co‑coordinate relevant practice research or audit projects to investigate and where appropriate improve the quality of service.
• To publish and present the results and outcomes of own research and audits locally, nationally or internationally as appropriate.
• To supervise junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainee pharmacists undertaking audit projects.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• MPharm (Masters Degree)
• Registered Pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council)
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
• Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification / experience
• Registered Independent Prescriber
• Member of the Royal College Pharmacy
• Knowledge and Experience
• Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice
• Maintains a broad level of pharmacy practice
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda
• Understands national and local priorities
• Knowledge of regulations and legislation relevant to area of practice
• Experience of working with senior healthcare professionals outside of Pharmacy
• Demonstration of advanced practice using evidence mapped to the Royal College of Pharmacy Core Advanced Curriculum

Skills and Competencies

• Be able to provide highly complex Information on medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor level)
• Be able to impart knowledge on medicines use to other healthcare professionals
• Be able to communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats with staff and patients
• Be able to influence junior medical staff, the multidisciplinary team
• Analytical and Judgment Skills
• Be able to analyse and interpret complex clinical information where there are a range of facts requiring analysis and where a range of options need to be compared
• Be able to use available evidence to make sound judgments in relation to patient-or drug-specific issues
• Basic knowledge of critical appraisal skills to analyse trial quality and its application to highly specialised patient group
• Planning and Organisational Skills
• Ability to plan the day-to-day activities of self and others
• Physical Skills
• To have basic keyboard and computer skills (word processing, spreadsheet, report generation and presentations)
• To have accurate dispensing skills
• Be able to concentrate on highly complex matters (drug use evaluations, drug query answering, clinical prescription review, checking of dispensed prescriptions) despite frequent interruptions
• Ability to work well under pressure by prioritising and managing time effectively
• Able to participate in Pharmacy seven-day service including the Late Duty, Weekend and Bank Holiday Service
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• Name Corrine Byrne Job title Principal Pharmacist, Planned Medicine Email address
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