Specialist Rotational Pharmacist

Fast forward your pharmacy career at Imperial. With five world‑renowned hospitals, we have an opportunity for a Band 7 specialist rotational pharmacist. You will have the opportunity to work across various specialty rotations within our specialist teams, delivering education and training and also gain experience in directorate work including management of high cost medicines, new drugs applications, guideline review and drug expenditure reporting. We very much see our rotation programme as designed to equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence for a future specialist clinical pharmacist role.

At Imperial you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people. You will be working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant pharmacy team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You will be self‑motivated and organised, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will need to develop effective working relationships with a wide range of professionals and possess good IT skills to work with a variety of programmes and databases. Applicants must be a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They should have completed up to 18 months of a postgraduate clinical pharmacy diploma and be working toward full diploma or equivalent experiential learning.

Main duties of the job:

• To ensure the safe, clinically effective and cost‑efficient use of drugs.
• To provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service (predominantly ward‑based but may be out‑patient based depending on the rotation).
• To ensure any prescribing of high‑cost drugs is appropriately funded.
• To support and develop pre‑registration pharmacists, Band 6 pharmacists and medicines‑management pharmacy technicians as appropriate.

About Us:

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Optional benefits are Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan and membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications for flexible, part‑time or job‑share arrangements.

Person Specification:

Education – Essential:

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Certificate in Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent relevant postgraduate experience and studying for completion of full Diploma.
• Undertakes continuing professional development (CPD) and maintains a CPD portfolio.

Education – Desirable:

• Completed full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent Post‑Graduate Qualification.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

Experience – Essential:

• Appropriate post‑registration training and experience in hospital Pharmacy – solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines information, aseptic services, ward services and dispensing).
• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients.
• Practical clinical experience covering a range of specialities including medicine & surgery with a broad knowledge of therapeutics.
• Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice.

Experience – Desirable:

• Experience of drug expenditure reporting.
• Experience of managing funding applications for PbR excluded drugs.
• Previous experience in delivering training and education.
• Evidence of writing or assisting to write drug policies, guidelines or PGDs.

Skills – Essential:

• Good ability to organise and prioritise work.
• Good clinical practice knowledge including the ability to analyse patient‑specific information to advise on management of medicines.
• Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management.
• A good understanding of national and local priorities.

Skills – Desirable:

• Experience of using electronic prescribing systems.
• Good understanding of financial aspects of PbR excluded medicines / Blueteq.
• Able to obtain, interpret, analyse and report on drug expenditure.
• Good understanding of how Homecare companies deliver services.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous criminal convictions. 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.