Lead Divisional Pharmacist – Emergency & Integrated Care (EIC)

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist who can inspire others to deliver outstanding patient centred care. You will be responsible for

  • Leading and developing clinical pharmacy services to meet the needs of the emergency & integrated care (EIC) division.
  • Providing senior leadership support to the specialist clinical pharmacists and across the EIC team.
  • Implementing trust wide initiatives to improve the use, management and safety of medicines across the trust
  • Deputizing for the Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services and assisting in trust wide medicines optimisation work streams

Main duties of the job

1. Lead and be a role model for clinical pharmacy services to the clinical areas managed by Emergency and Integrated Care (EIC) Division, including Respiratory, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Care of the Elderly, Rheumatology, Emergency Medicine, ambulatory emergency care and acute medical unit patients.

2. Lead, provide and develop clinical pharmacy services to meet the needs of the EIC Division in accordance with objectives set by the Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services in order to meet Trust objectives and the Clinical Governance Agenda

3. Lead by example in an agreed specialism e.g. cardiology or care of elderly ensuring a consistently high quality clinical pharmacy service is delivered to all areas of the EIC Division in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

4. Manage the clinical service provided by a team of pharmacists and technicians within the EIC Division.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent qualification
  • Registered as a practicing pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent training / experience

Desirable

  • ICH GCP Training
  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership

Experience

Essential

  • Current experience as an advanced clinical pharmacist practitioner, able to demonstrate a high level of competency (e.g. equivalent to achieving ‘excellence’ in the majority of competencies within the Advanced Level Competency Framework
  • Considerable demonstrable specialist experience in Medicine
  • Variety of clinical practice in hospital setting to include Acute Medicine and Surgery rotations
  • Experience in management of others
  • Clinical audit to improve practice

Skills and knowledge

Essential

  • Influences senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team, management and commissioners
  • Ability to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services
  • Can identify and manage risks
  • Can delegate authority appropriately

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Leads by example

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 20 July 2026

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