Job Description

This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to join the Trust as Associate Chief Pharmacist.



The post holder will provide Trust-wide professional leadership for pharmacy services and play a key role in driving service transformation, operational effectiveness and medicines optimisation. The role is cross-cutting, operating across clinical, operational and corporate functions to ensure consistent, high-quality and safe medicines practice.



Working in close partnership with the Chief Pharmacist, Trust Medication Safety Officer and IUC leads, the post holder will contribute to the strategic development and delivery of pharmacy services, supporting organisational priorities, regulatory compliance and patient safety objectives.



The role requires credible senior leadership, the ability to influence at pace, and a strong focus on governance, performance and continuous improvement. The post holder will act as a role model for the pharmacy workforce and ensure that the delivery of services are aligned with corporate objectives and system-wide priorities.



The post holder will provide expert leadership, working across Pharmacy in 999 and 111 and will play a critical role in developing a pan-London Integrated Urgent Care strategy for medicines services, setting standards and guidelines for prescribing and medicines use practice, in keeping with the GPhC, MHRA, CQC and national policy documents and guidance.

Provision of clinical leadership and support to the wider organisation

Provision of expert input to clinical developments within the Trust.

Work closely with stakeholders implementing and delivering NHS111 and IUC

Foster an open and transparent culture where people are willing to report and learn from incidents and near misses

Support the Clinical Directorate and senior IUC Management Team in the strategic development of educational programmes.

Provision of expert clinical guidance in end-to-end reviews

Strengthen the pharmacist contribution to patients requiring IUC in all settings and exercising a high level of professional autonomy as benefits an expert practitioner in the field of integrated urgent care.

The post holder will be expected to work on-site and travel across the Trust and to external meetings when required.



Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:



Our care - delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.

Our organisation - being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.

Our London - using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.



To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.



Please review the attached job description and personal specification which provides the full list of roles and responsibilities.