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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Principal Pharmacist - Joint Formulary, Medicines Pathways & Interface
Closed for applications on: 5-Aug-2025 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Aug-2025 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £72,921 - £83,362 p.a. inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Principal Pharmacist
- Interview date
- 22/08/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and innovative pharmacist to lead our progressive Pharmacy Formulary and Interface team.
You will manage the delivery of formulary services at GSTT and the South East London Joint Formulary.
You will work across systems to deliver our local, regional and national priorities.
You will act as the main secondary care lead for formulary and medicines pathway in the South East London Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC).
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The main duties of this role are:
- Management of the South East London Joint Medicines Formulary, delivery of formulary services at GSTFT to support safe, clinically effective and efficient use of medicines in all situations
- Communication and implementation of formulary management matters both within the Directorate, throughout GSTFT, and to King’s College NHS Foundation Trust (KCH), Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT), South East London ICB and other healthcare providers (e.g. South London and the Maudsley NHS Trust).
- Assistance and supervision of all formulary and regional medicines pathway and interface matters for KCH and LGT
- Development and maintenance of effective working relationships with colleagues in primary and secondary care across the locality.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pharmacy Formulary and Interface team is part of a large, vibrant service focussing on delivery of advice related to Medicines Effectiveness and Safety.
We aim to drive best practice through robust governance frameworks, collaboration and quality improvement. We promote the safe, effective and economic use of medicines in patients, through active provision and support with clinical governance processes to ensure good quality care.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pharmacy Department is one of the largest in the UK and has a strong focus on individual patient care. Our pharmacists work across multi-disciplinary teams both in the hospital and community setting, to deliver advice, guidance, and support within a culture of medicine safety. The focus is on patient-centred care and this is achieved through providing optimised pharmaceutical care for patients as part of a ward-based and clinical pharmacy service and extending pharmaceutical services beyond traditional boundaries. This includes attendance on consultant-led ward rounds and contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Leadership of Formulary and Interface Service
• Develop the formulary service for South East London taking into account local and national NHS needs, in the short and long term
• Contribute as appropriate to the operational development of the South East London Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC)
• Identify and manage change needed to develop the role and the function of the Joint Formulary Committee (JFC)
• Develop and maintain effective working relations with colleagues in primary and secondary care within the locality of GSTFT, KCH, LGT, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and the ICB
• Analyse the workload of the Joint Formulary service. and advise on the deployment of resources effectively to meet the demands of users of the services
• Evaluate the Joint Formulary service in accordance with standards set by the JFC and South East London IMOC
Leadership and Management
• Direct the consultation process for formulary applications and medicines related pathways and guidance, including shared care agreements, for the JFC and South East London IMOC across the acute Trusts
• Manage, develop the role, and supervise the work of the band 7 Joint Formulary and Medicines Pathways Pharmacist to ensure the timely delivery of work and outputs of the formulary service
• Prepare and present tracker record of formulary submissions for use by both JFC and SE London IMOC
• Work with the Paediatric Formulary Committee regarding new drugs approved for ratification by the JFC to provide assistance and advice on new submissions and queries regarding the Paediatric Formulary
• Assess the need for full formulary submission requests from the three acute Trusts and work with the triage committee to advise applicants on which prescribing committee the submission should be directed to.
• Notify the Committee of new NICE/NHS England and South East London IMOC guidance and resolve any issues that arise so that that guidance can be ratified.
Education and Training
• Contribute specialist knowledge to the wider healthcare environment.
• Assign and assess drug evaluation projects that are carried out by the band 7 formulary and interface pharmacist and pharmacists undertaking the Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, as part of their coursework.
• Develop the role of the band 7 formulary and medicines pathways pharmacist, including critical appraisal skills, medicines safety assessment and clinical governance.
Research
• Integrate research evidence into practice within formulary evaluations and clinical work
• Identify gaps in the evidence-base in formulary evaluations and clinical work
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols and guidelines within formulary services and clinical practice.
• Actively seek to improve the formulary and clinical services provided
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
- Substantial post-registration hospital experience
- Extensive experience in formulary management
- Substantial critical appraisal and clinical evidence review skills
- Experience of working across the healthcare interface
- Experience of obtaining and analysing clinical and regulatory information
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to negotiate with and influence others
- Analytical and problem solving
- Knowledge of local and national NHS initiatives, policy and developments and how they relate to pharmacy and medicines management
- Ability to liaise with professionals at all levels
- Report writing and data analysis
- Sound clinical knowledge
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master degree in Pharmacy
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy practice
- GPhC registration as a pharmacist
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate Masters degree or relevant qualification
- Advanced Critical appraisal skills course
Documents
- JD Principal Pharmacist – Joint Formulary, Medicines Pathways and Interface Management (PDF, 164.1KB)
- PS Principal Pharmacist – Joint Formulary, Medicines Pathways and Interface Management (PDF, 73.9KB)
- FRF Principal Pharmacist – Joint Formulary, Medicines Pathways and Interface Management (PDF, 151.5KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abimbola Olusoga
- Job title
- Lead for Medicines Effectiveness and Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071883848
- Additional information
Martin Bradley (post holder)
02071883848
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