Band 8a Lead Pharmacist- Patient Services | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,631 - £68,623 Per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 January 2026 |
| Location: | Barnet, EN5 3DJ |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7666172/391-RFL-7666172 |
Summary
The Senior Pharmacist for patient services will assist in leading, delivering, developing and evaluating a high quality clinical and pharmaceutical service to inpatients and outpatient services. This includes the responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day service provision, including allocation of staff and provision of cover in the event of sickness.
The Trust takes pride as one of the major specialist centres for infectious diseases, liver and renal transplants, breast and plastic surgery, myeloma, and neuroendocrine tumours. Working in one of the main speciality centres brings exciting opportunities to see a range of patients at different levels of complexities. Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
The Pharmacy department is a friendly, progressive, and expanding unit dedicated to providing the highest standards of pharmaceutical care and service in this internationally renowned teaching hospital. Quality improvement and cost-effective, safe use of medicines is at the forefront of everything we do.
This post holder will be responsible for promoting governance and the safe use of medicines across the Trust alongside providing a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within a defined clinical specialty.
To work closely with the multidisciplinary teams, clinical leads, and divisional managers for inpatient MDTU and outpatient services.
To oversee the operational, clinical and strategic components including being responsible for optimising digital pathways related to Patient Services.
To have overall responsibility for Patient Services, including ensuring compliance with relevant local, Trust, professional, ethical and regulatory standards.
To assure compliance of Patient Services with relevant Key Performance Indicators.
Be involved in quality improvement projects which aim to improve performance within patient services
To support with education and training activities of all pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals in the context of patient service activities
To support with compliance with external governance requirements relating to patient services
Develop tools to capture and analyse performance and report this month. Leading on the training and induction of pharmacy staff, ensuring they are adequately trained and supported to carry out their duties.
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.
For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/
Please see the attached job description for a detailed job description and responsibilities for this role
This advert closes on Friday 2 Jan 2026