Lead Cardiac Pharmacist St Bartholomew’s Hospital | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, EC1A 7BE |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7291095/259-7291095SBH |
Summary
Lead Cardiac Pharmacist, Cardiac, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Grade 8b
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join and lead the cardiac team at Barts Heart Centre – one of Europe’s largest cardiovascular centres - at Barts Health NHS Trust. This is an exceptional career opportunity for an experienced, high calibre pharmacist looking to develop their career, leadership as well as clinical skills to cardiovascular medicine at the Barts Heart Centre, working from St Bartholomew’s Hospital. You will work closely with medical and nursing staff on a wide range of medicines management matters and manage staff to optimise medicines use within the trust to patients with cardiovascular disease.
You should have extensive cardiology experience and have a clear vision of how you see the future of clinical pharmacy services within the speciality.
To discuss this role further please contact Paul Wright, Clinical Services Manager St Bartholomew’s hospital 020 346 56356 or paul.wright19@nhs.net
Interviews will take place 2 weeks after the job offer closes with candidates being notified 7 days prior to interview
The post holder will carry out the full range of duties as Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Cardiac to deliver patient focused, quality care, based at one of the four main hospital sites.
To lead the Clinical Pharmacy service to Cardiology services in providing responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing within the networks to:
Optimise patient outcomes
Minimise adverse reactions
Improve medicines safety
The post also helps to deliver the broader Medicines Optimisation and Governance Strategy across the Trust. These outcomes will be achieved primarily through leadership of clinical staff, and the publication and implementation of guidelines and procedures to encourage best practice.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Jul 2025