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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
About
Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Rotational Pharmacist
Accepting applications until: 16-Nov-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 16-Nov-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Clinical Residency
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 p.a inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy
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 are looking for enthusiastic pharmacists with demonstrable competencies in hospital pharmacy practice and a commitment to high quality pharmaceutical care to join our team.
The Senior Rotational Pharmacist role allows individual pharmacists to gain the knowledge, skills and experience to develop their practice by working in a structured environment with the support of senior clinical pharmacists.
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This programme builds on the knowledge, skills and experience gained at a foundation level and encourages pharmacists to take an active role in their experiential learning and development.
This programme is aimed at pharmacists with significant hospital experience who have completed their Postgraduate Clinical Diploma (or equivalent) and are looking to develop their skills in specialist areas.
Current rotations include (but are not limited to) Clinical Commissioning, Cardiothoracic, Intensive Care, Paediatrics, Oncology, Renal, Cardiology, and Gastroenterology, with further opportunities to rotate across an expanding range of specialties.
Working for our organisation
As well as delivering clinical pharmacy services, candidates will have the opportunity to undertake Trust-based management courses, team and organisational responsibilities (i.e. staff planning, rostering and business planning), taking on a leadership role (i.e. project supervision, training, mentoring and appraisal of junior staff members) and support service development (i.e. quality improvement, medication safety and financial management).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description which provides information on our organisation and the programme.
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.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge/qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm degree (or equivalent to allow GPhC registration)
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Successful completion of a Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent and comparable experience)
Desirable criteria
- Membership of relevant professional groups (i.e. UKCPA / RPS / BOPA / NPPG)
- Working at or towards credentialing with the RPS at Advanced Stage 1
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience relevant to hospital pharmacy practice
- Significant experience of working in a ward-based environment, with specific clinical experience within Medical and Surgical specialties
- Experience of working in a Patient Services / Dispensary environment
- Experience of overseeing the organisation and management of the training of students, Trainee and Junior Pharmacists and / or Pharmacy Technicians
- Experience in the design and / or delivery of local education and training across the MDT
- Experience in medication safety with the investigation and learning from errors
- Experience in undertaking and leading clinical audit, quality improvement, research and/or service development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within an ambulatory or clinic-based environment and managing patient case load independently
- Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services to specialist clinical areas
- Experience of rotating through Medicines Information or Technical Services
- Accredited Practice Supervisor i.e. completion of appropriate recognised training
- Experience of acting as a Designated Supervisor for Trainee Pharmacists
- Experience in the design and / or delivery of education and training at undergraduate level
- Experience in identifying trends and taking forwards learning from medication errors
- Experience in recruitment and selection
- Experience of writing policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- Experience in medicines finance review and management
- Experience in medicines governance i.e. management of unlicensed requests
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen a range of prescriptions including complex and high risk medicines
- Ability to communicate complex pharmaceutical information effectively to members of the MDT
- Able to work independently, when required
- Able to effectively solve own and others clinical and operational issues to best support patient care
- Able to manage their own workload effectively and escalate for support, when required
- Excellent attention to detail
- Able to work in, sometimes, emotionally challenging and evocative situations
- Able to work under pressure
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with Electronic Patient Records and digital prescribing systems
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vernise Daji
- Job title
- Senior Pharmacist Education and Training
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071885010
- Additional information
Interviews will be held week commencing 24th November 2025
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