Senior Specialist Pharmacist

Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic and patient oriented pharmacist to help lead and deliver out-patient pharmacy and work with the specialist clinics providing services across the trust.

Main duties of the job

Key duties include: leading in the provision of out-patient pharmacy services for immunosuppressant and disease modifying drugs; collaboratively working with specialist teams for developing clinical pharmacy services including prescribing, facilitating training of permanent and rotating staff, supporting the lead patient services pharmacist in the roll out of patient centre consultations.

This position offers the opportunity to build on your clinical skills by collaborating with specialist clinics and the out-patient pharmacy team.

You will need to be a GPhC registered pharmacist with a diploma in General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent and broad hospital-based experience. You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will also need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development.

This is a full-time post. The post holder will be required to participate in the on-call (back up), weekend, bank holiday and late-night duty rotas.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.