Job Description

Job title - Senior Pharmacist - Acute Medicine and Medicines Advice
Fixed-term post - 6 months
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated clinical pharmacist to join the Acute Medicine and Medicines Advice (MA) team and develop the role of clinical pharmacy. Medicine includes AMU (Acute medical unit) and AAU (Acute assessment unit), Thoracic Medicine and TREAT (triage readmissions elderly admissions team) services and support to Accident and Emergency unit. The pharmacist will play a key role in the safe and effective management of drugs across medicine/ thoracic and will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
The role includes overseeing the day-to-day management of the service provided to the medical wards as well as assisting the lead medical advice pharmacist in managing the daily operations in the MA service. You will also be responsible for the development of evidence-based guidelines and protocols, additionally, oversee the training and development of junior pharmacists including setting their objectives.
Potential candidates will have experience working as a band 7 pharmacist, with some experience of working in medicine/MA. They will be comfortable working with consultant level staff and have some knowledge of managing drug budgets, developing and implementing policies/guidelines and supervision and training of staff.
Main duties of the job

• Act as a deputy for Principal Pharmacist in Medicine or lead medicines advice pharmacist when necessary
• Regular active participation in speciality ward rounds to support safe and effective use of medicines with these areas
• Delivery of a safe and effective medicines advice service
• Maintaining clinical governance within the medicine and medicines advice services
• Ensuring seamless pharmaceutical care from admission to discharge, including liaising with other pharmacists and healthcare professionals (primary and secondary) who may be taking over care of the patient
• To act as a clinical role model, and support training and supervision of junior members of the pharmacy team
• Development and implementation of clinical guidelines
• Effective control of drug expenditure and management of processes regarding high-cost drugs
• Developing the role of independent prescribing within medicine
• To participate in audits and practice research
• To work with the clinical risk team to minimise the risk of medicines

About us
The Royal Free London NHS Trust is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the UK with many specialties including kidney and liver transplantation, haemophilia, amyloidosis and scleroderma with the newly opened Pears Building being at the forefront of medical research.
The trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This large-scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, in finding ways to deliver even better care to patients.
The Pharmacy department is a friendly, and progressive unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service. Providing a variety of pharmacy services across all three sites, the pharmacy department have played a pivotal role in the implementation of electronic prescribing system and have strategic plans for the development of more consultant and independent prescribing pharmacists. The pharmacy medicine team consists of a team of pharmacists and technicians working across all the medical wards to provide a safe, cost-effective and timely service to patients. The team are well-respected at ward level, providing advice to both nursing and medical staff on the use of medicines. Medicines advice consist of a friendly team of the lead MA pharmacist and rotational pharmacists from Royal Free and Barnet sites.
Details
Date posted
11 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
64,156 to 71,148 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
391-RFL-7559650
Job locations
Pharmacy Dept Royal Free Hospital
Pond Street
London
NW3 2QG
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications
Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
• GPhC (GB) registration
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Desirable

• Registered supplementary or independent prescriber.
• Advanced qualification in specialist area
• National Introductory MI training course

Experience
Essential

• Considerable experience working in hospital pharmacy and proven experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist or medicines advisory services
• Experience of contributing to policy, planning and service development
• Experience of working with high-cost drugs and commissioning processes including individual funding requests (IFRs)
• Experience of managing own workload
• Experience of managing change and leading service developments
• Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure
• Experience of writing / implementing clinical guidelines and government directives
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Evidence of clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence based practice.
• Experience of MiDatabank and enquiry answering
• Experience of evaluating clinical trial data
• Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
• Experience in delivering education and training.
• Comprehensive band 6/7 rotation
• Experience as a clinical pharmacy tutor
• Experience of clinical risk and clinical governance

Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications
Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
• GPhC (GB) registration
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Desirable

• Registered supplementary or independent prescriber.
• Advanced qualification in specialist area
• National Introductory MI training course

Experience
Essential

• Considerable experience working in hospital pharmacy and proven experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist or medicines advisory services
• Experience of contributing to policy, planning and service development
• Experience of working with high-cost drugs and commissioning processes including individual funding requests (IFRs)
• Experience of managing own workload
• Experience of managing change and leading service developments
• Experience of managing and analysing drug expenditure
• Experience of writing / implementing clinical guidelines and government directives
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Evidence of clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence based practice.
• Experience of MiDatabank and enquiry answering
• Experience of evaluating clinical trial data
• Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback
• Experience in delivering education and training.
• Comprehensive band 6/7 rotation
• Experience as a clinical pharmacy tutor
• Experience of clinical risk and clinical governance

Skills Required