Job Description

This is a fantastic opportunity for a committed, innovative and experienced clinician to join our successful respiratory pharmacist team.
Working with the respiratory consultant pharmacist, and other members of the well-established multidisciplinary asthma and allergy teams, you will support patients to get the most from their medicines, delivering local and national priorities to improve the lung health of the people we care for. There is significant opportunity to publish the outcomes of practice based research, provide training for a wide range of pharmacy, medical and other healthcare professionals and develop professionally/personally in line with the Advanced Level Framework.
A post-graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy and independent prescribing qualifications are required, as will the demonstration of a breadth of clinical pharmacy practice at an appropriate level. Experience of working with people with an asthma or allergies, home administration of biologic therapy and research would be advantageous.
Main duties of the job
To deliver, develop and evaluate medicines optimisation in the respiratory medicine department (primarily within asthma and allergy), in accordance with the objectives agreed with the respiratory consultant pharmacist.
To provide a consistently high and innovative pharmaceutical service in line with the Trust Clinical Strategy, the NHS Plan and other major drivers for service standards.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best-known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We are working in partnership with King's Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.See www.kingshealthpartners.org.
Organisational Strategy and Values:
The Trust strategy sets out what we will do, the values help us to define how we do it. The post holder will be:
Caring -Put patients first.
Ambitious -Innovate and strive for excellence.
Inclusive -Respect others and work collaboratively.
Details
Date posted
10 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
61,927 to 68,676 a year per annum inc. HCA
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
196-LIS9605
Job locations
Royal Brompton Hospital
London
SW3 6NP
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Skills and abilities
Essential

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Has presented a poster at national or international conference

• Has published in a peer reviewed journal

• Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Working towards or willing to work towards an independent prescribing qualification with airways disease within their scope

• Independent prescribing qualification
• Other clinical practice qualification
• Research qualification

• Significant post registration experience within general medicine clinical pharmacy services
• Relevant experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services to respiratory patients
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working

• Experience of provision of Homecare to patients
• Experience in delivering pharmaceutical services to patients with severe asthma and/or allergy
• Experience of out-patient clinic work

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Has presented a poster at national or international conference

• Has published in a peer reviewed journal

• Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Working towards or willing to work towards an independent prescribing qualification with airways disease within their scope

• Independent prescribing qualification
• Other clinical practice qualification
• Research qualification

• Significant post registration experience within general medicine clinical pharmacy services
• Relevant experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services to respiratory patients
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working

• Experience of provision of Homecare to patients
• Experience in delivering pharmaceutical services to patients with severe asthma and/or allergy
• Experience of out-patient clinic work