Job Description

Band 7

Main area

Senior Pharmacist, Outpatients

Grade

Band 7

Contract

Fixed term: 12 months (From July 2025)

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

343-7171409-FM-AG

Site

St Helier Hospital

Town

Carshalton

Salary

51,883 - 58,544 Pro-rata pa inc Outer (HCAS)

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

01/06/2025 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Outpatient Team at St Helier Hospital.



This is a 12-month fixed-term post to cover maternity leave, starting in July 2025--an excellent chance to gain experience in a busy hospital outpatient setting within a supportive and dynamic team.



You'll work closely with the Principal Pharmacist for Outpatient Services and Clinical Trials to deliver high-quality care--preparing outpatient prescriptions, providing counselling, promoting safe medicine use, and contributing to other key services.



We're looking for someone who brings fresh ideas and energy, with a commitment to professional, efficient, and compassionate service.

What we're looking for:

Ideally, you'll have hospital pharmacy experience and an understanding of hospital prescribing and medicines management. However, if you come from community pharmacy, your transferable skills in communication, customer care, and working with prescribers will be highly valued.

Why join us?

This could be the best career move you make this year. If you're ready for a change, don't delay--apply today!

Main duties of the job

Adhere to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) standards of conduct, ethics and performance, and ensure compliance with all professional, ethical, and legal obligations, including standards for registered pharmacies. Deliver a patient-focused, responsive, and professional Outpatient Pharmacy service, maintaining the highest standards of service and upholding the department's professional image at all times. Dispense medicines legally, efficiently, and accurately, ensuring all clinical and accuracy checks are completed as required, in line with the responsibilities outlined in the job description. Provide patients with appropriate counselling and information about their medicines, ensuring they fully understand how to take their medications safely and effectively. Offer professional leadership within the Outpatient Pharmacy, working in partnership with the Principal Pharmacist for Outpatients to ensure pharmacy practices--your own and others'--are in line with current professional guidance (e.g., Medicines, Ethics and Practice by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and GPhC standards). Actively respond to individual patient needs, taking appropriate action to resolve issues or complaints as they arise, always maintaining a compassionate and solution-focused approach. Contribute to the wider clinical pharmacy service as appropriate, including participation in the late duty, seven-day, bank holiday, and on-call rotas.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the full job description you will see clearly the full range of duties within these roles that will enable you to work as part of the Pharmacy Outpatient team



Tell us in your application how you meet the criteria in the attached person specification.

Person specification

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Experience

Essential criteria

Post GPhC registration experience Understanding of Good Clinical Practice and Good manufacturing Practice in relation to clinical trials Clinical experience in a range of clinical specialties

Desirable criteria

Management of staff/ staff appraisal Previous experience in clinical trials/research Good Clinical Practice Certificate Post GPhC registration UK hospital experience #

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent communication skills, verbal and written Good organisational skills, self and others. Ability to motivate self and others Ability to manage change

Desirable criteria

IT literate Familiarity with CMM (formerly JAC) Pharmacy Computer System #

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Masters in Pharmacy Degree (MPharm) Pre-registration training and Professional registration with GPhC Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Desirable criteria

Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training

Your application

: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References

: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We

do notaccept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date

: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting

: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS

: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.



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Disability Advice Line:

SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our

Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

Telephone: 02082963786

Text: 07501066267

Email: esth.dal@nhs.net.

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.
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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.


This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.