Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Adult Diabetes Services: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist with extensiveclinical expertise and strong interpersonal skills to join the Adult Diabetes Services at UCLH.This is a fixed-term position covering maternity leave.Adult Diabetes Services sit within the Medical Specialties Division, which encompasses a broadrange of specialist services across both inpatient and outpatient settings.The Adult Diabetes team is a well-established multidisciplinary service comprised of consultants,specialist registrars, associate specialists, clinical nurse specialists, dietitians, podiatrists and apharmacist working collaboratively to improve outcomes and support people living with type 1and type 2 diabetes across both hospital and community care settings.Within pharmacy services, the post-holder will work as an integral member of the Medicine andEmergency Services Pharmacy Team, providing a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service toAdult Diabetes Services and, where appropriate, supporting the wider Medical SpecialtiesDivision.The role also offers the opportunity to work closely with primary care colleagues and partnerorganisations across the West North London network, helping to enhance the quality, safety, andcontinuity of care for patients with long term conditions such as diabetes, across hospital andcommunity care pathways.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the multidisciplinary diabetes team, you will play a key role in enhancingthe care and outcomes of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes across inpatient andoutpatient settings.You will participate in relevant MDT clinical huddles, ward rounds, and specialist meetings,promoting the safe and effective use of medicines, reducing medicine-related harm duringtransitions of care, and driving evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing practice.As a valued member of the diabetes multidisciplinary team, you will use your advanced clinicalknowledge and experience to influence therapeutic decision-making and apply yourindependent prescribing skills to optimise diabetes treatment regimens and improve outcomesin in-patient settings and out-patient based initiatives such as virtual pre-operation assessmentclinics.You will function as an expert source of advice and a key point of contact for the diabetes MDT,other UCLH healthcare professionals, and patients requiring information and supportimprovement initiatives relating to diabetes medicines and monitoring devices.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential

• Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
• Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
• Independent prescriber registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Experience

Essential

• Substantial post-registration experience as a GPhC dedicated clinical pharmacist practitioner
• Clinical experience of specialist service provision to general medical and surgical services including management of patient with diabetes
• Evidence of competence to Advanced Stage I of the RPS Advanced Pharmacy Framework for Leadership, Management and Education
• Maintains a broad knowledge of clinical and pharmacy practice with interest in Diabetes
• Undertaken management training courses

Desirable

• Stage I or II member of the RPS Faculty
• Experience delivering and/or managing patients in Diabetes clinic settings

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills
• Able to identify and prioritise the delivery of clinical pharmacy services
• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options and maintain confidentiality
• Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice
• Ability to formulate suitable therapeutic solutions in areas of clinical uncertainty
• Ability to influence junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff
• Able to identify and manage risks
• Maintains standards of patient care and meets appropriate measures of service
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
• Able to identify and undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects
• Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures
• Displays honesty and integrity, and awareness of ethical dilemmas relating to clinical practice

Desirable

• Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
• Evaluates service provision
• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate complex therapeutic options in relation to diabetes management
• Demonstrates advanced level of clinical and critical reasoning and judgement in practice
• Ability to influence senior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff including issues not directly related to clinical management
• Able to develop and implement risk management procedures
• Enhances the quality of patient care
• Identifies and meets appropriate measures of service
• Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
• Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of more diverse unavoidable pressures
• Integrates research evidence into practice

Communication

Essential

• Able to utilise email, word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software packages to support routine work activit
• Able to manage difficult and ambiguous conversations where limited information is available
• Displays honesty and integrity, and awareness of ethical dilemmas relating to clinical practice

Desirable

• Able to utilise database or other software packages to support and enhance work activity
• Experience managing complex situation with conflicting interests

Personal and People Development

Essential

• Understands Trust and pharmacy values and priorities
• Experience in co-ordinating the day-to-day practice activities of others
• Able to evaluate quality of own work, and that of junior colleagues
• Demonstrates initiative and able to work autonomously
• Previous experience of delivering educational material within pharmacy

Desirable

• Experience in management of others
• Identifies personal development needs, and those of junior colleagues
• Identifies own training needs
• Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified & met
• Previous experience in delivering education and training in a multidisciplinary environment
• Delegates authority appropriately

Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Essential

• Demonstratable understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties

Specific Requirements

Essential

• Participates in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings
• Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in diabetes and the management of long term conditions.
• Collates data regarding service provision
• Able to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
• Maintains a portfolio of practice

Desirable

• Integrates research evidence into practice
• Identifies novel and innovative ways of working to enhance services
• Able to develop and implement risk management procedures
• Implementation of strategies aimed at meeting Trust and pharmacy priorities

Closing Date: 22 November 2026