Lead Neighbourhood Pharmacist, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic
Accepting applications until: 09-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 09-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Guy's Hospital (across SE London)
- Cyfeiriad
- Great Maze Pond
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £75,328 - £86,114 p.a. inc. HCA
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- 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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to continue our work within integrated neighbourhood teams to optimise medicines for people living with multiple long term conditions including cardiovascular, renal and metabolic disease across South East London. The role will work collaboratively with primary and secondary care colleagues to create a person-centred, holistic integrated model of care for people with multiple long-term conditions to improve patient experience, change ways of working, improve outcomes and increase efficiencies.
The role will work across South East London for the first year with a primary focus within Lambeth and Southwark boroughs thereafter.
This post will lead on medicines optimisation and support integration of services and pathways across the interface for people living with multiple long term conditions.
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The successful candidate will:
· have significant experience as a specialist clinical practitioner in multiple long term conditions including chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes
· be able to demonstrate a commitment to patient care
· act as a role model in the cardio-renal metabolic field
· be able to demonstrate the ability to influence at consultant and senior leadership level
· be able to demonstrate experience of service development and improvement across a system wide multi-disciplinary environment
· have excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills
· be able to demonstrate the ability to work innovatively
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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, providing specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Organisational Values:
Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.
The post holder will be:
Caring put patients first
Ambitious innovate and strive for excellence
Inclusive respect each other and work collaboratively
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
In liaison with the Consultant Pharmacist for Diabetes and Consultant Pharmacist, renal and transplant and under the accountability of the Chief Pharmacist, the post holder will work across boundaries with a focus on multiple long term conditions (LTCs), including CVRM within neighbourhood teams in South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) to:
- Be a role model and national expert in one or more of CVRM pharmacy field; they will accept case referrals and provide expert opinion on medicines issues to primary, intermediate and secondary care clinicians where appropriate. They will undertake research and ensure a consistently high clinical service is provided to patients
- Develop strategic intentions, and stakeholder engagement to establish clear priorities for service transformation for the management of multiple LTCs within Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs).
- Work in a collaborative manner as part of neighbourhood teams including secondary care and pharmacy departments as well as South East London Integrated Care Board medicines team, primary care networks and LTC teams to enable the delivery of safe, effective and informed medicines optimisation in the context of patient care pathways
- Use clinical and change management skills to undertake and implement care pathway redesign including provision of an overview of medicines usage and transfer of care issues across multiple patient pathways (and multiple providers and commissioners)
- Monitor, interpret and predict drug expenditure against budget
- Work with the Consultant Pharmacists and lead education and development in medicines management for the multidisciplinary team
- Provide expert advice to INTs including GPs, clinicians and managers to ensure that national guidance and best practice underpin and medicines usage and ensure compliance with the legal framework governing medicines use to ensure patient safety
The role will work across SEL for the first year with a primary focus on Lambeth and Southwark boroughs thereafter.
See the JD and PS for more details and the full range of duties
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- MPharm degree (or recognised equivalent)
- Postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Pharmacy Practice (PGCert, MSc or equivalent)
- Non-medical prescriber qualification
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Meini prawf dymunol
- Project Management Qualification (or comparable experience)
- Member of relevant professional groups (UKRPG, UKKA)
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Expert advanced ability to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of drugs in multiple long term conditions (including chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes).
- Hold expert advanced clinical knowledge in medicinal therapy in multiple long term conditions (including chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes).
- Enhance the quality of patient care.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of commissioning.
- Plan, implement and evaluate programmes that impact across or within departments, services and organisational boundaries.
- Effectively challenge current practice using negotiating, motivational and influencing skills.
- Able to work collaboratively with senior pharmacy, medical staff, the multidisciplinary team, management and commissioners, outside and within organisational boundaries.
- Have evidence of the ability to educate, train and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals in medicinal therapy in multiple long term conditions (including chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes).
Meini prawf dymunol
- Manage difficult and ambiguous problems
- Develop recognition as a national and/or international expert within the speciality of clinical pharmacy.
- Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives.
Previous experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of having led a clinical pharmacy service for patients living with multiple long term conditions (including chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes) or experience of running clinics or providing expert clinical advice for people living with multiple long term conditions (including chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes).
- Experience of managing and making appropriate referrals.
- Broad experience of clinical pharmacy services within chronic kidney disease and/or cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes.
- Experience of partnership work across the wider health economy and outside of organisational boundaries.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Senior member of recognised pharmacy organisation (e.g. UK Renal Pharmacy Group or United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association).
- Experience of working in neighbourhood teams
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Anna Hodgkinson
- Teitl y swydd
- Consultant Pharmacist, Diabetes
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
Hayley Wells
Lead Transplant and Renal Pharmacist
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