Highly Specialist Women & Children’s Pharmacist

Overview

Job summary: This is a brand new post created due to service expansion. This is an opportunity to join an already exciting and dynamic women and children''s team. This role will provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service within the Women and Children''s Directorate, ensuring high quality, safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the specialty. The Senior Pharmacist will maintain a regular clinical commitment to both women and paediatric wards; prescribing and neonatal experience would be desirable. The post holder will deputise for the Lead Directorate Pharmacist when required.Main duties of the job: To provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service within the Women and Children\''s Directorate, ensuring high quality, safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the speciality. The Senior Pharmacist will maintain a regular clinical commitment to both women and paediatric wards and will provide information support for division and specialist pharmacists and will deputise for the Lead Directorate Pharmacist when required.Key working relationships

PatientsPharmacy StaffWandC Directorate staffFinanceHuman ResourcesExternal Personnel working within the WandC fieldExternal Personnel with whom the Trust has an SLA to provide services for the TrustSupervises

Specialist Pharmacists WandCRotational resident pharmacistsPre-registration pharmacists and other junior staffAbout us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England\''s top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, AandE, and children\''s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us \''Good\'' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and \''Outstanding\'' in leadership and resource use.We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven\''t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.Details

Date posted: 01 September 2025Pay scheme: Agenda for changeBand: Band 8aSalary: £64,156 to £71,148 a year per annum incl. HCASContract: PermanentWorking pattern: Full-timeReference number: 289-CS-141-AJob locations: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Rd, London, SW10 9NHDetails of the post and responsibilities are described below.Responsibilities

Participate in other areas of clinical pharmacy practice in order to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledgeTo participate in weekend/public holiday and on-call rotasTo assist the Department in the production of ward and on-call rotasTo participate in the operational management rotaLiaise with other clinical pharmacists to ensure efficient transfer of drug related careBe aware of, and apply, relevant legislation such as the HA SAWA, COSHH, Medicines Act, GMP etc.At all times practice in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical CouncilPerson Specification

ExperienceWomens and Children\''s experience as a registered pharmacistExperience working in hospital pharmacy, including providing clinical pharmacy servicesExperience in training healthcare professionalsImplementing research into practiceWorking as part of a multidisciplinary teamSupervision of staffDesirableNICU experiencePaediatric/NICU TPN experienceQualificationsRegistered as a practising Pharmacist with the GPhCClinical pharmacy certificate or relevant experienceDesirableVariety of clinical practice to include Women and Children\''s experienceIndependent prescriberGood verbal and written communication skillsMSc. in Clinical PharmacyDisclosure and UK Registration

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

Employer: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustAddress: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Rd, London, SW10 9NHEmployer\''s website: ..... full job details .....