About this role
Job summary
An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the Pharmacy Team as Pharmacy Projects Lead (Band 8B).
This is a great opportunity to work in a senior leadership role, providing strategic and professional leadership for specific projects working closely with the Chief Pharmacist, other Deputy Chief Pharmacists and senior colleagues across the wider Trust to support the continued development, modernisation and delivery of safe, effective and financially sustainable pharmacy services.
This opportunity would suit an experienced senior pharmacist with the credibility, judgement and ambition to deliver complex projects and work collaboratively and contribute meaningfully to the future direction of pharmacy here at King's.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead and manage the delivery and development of new initiatives or projects as agreed with the Chief Pharmacist. They will:
Work with nominated members of the Pharmacy team to inform strategy and local policy development.
Ensure effective clinical leadership and engagement with initiatives/ project, providing clinical expertise in pathway and system redesign.
Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable effective change management with stakeholders at all levels (including senior management) that may hold differing and contentious views
Lead on the evaluation of project deliverables and advise on their viability both in terms of financials and deliverability working alongside members of Pharmacy Management Group as appropriate.
Lead regular updates and meetings in the department on Transformation projects that are being delivered
Ensure alignment of the projects with departmental, trust and national strategy and demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments, at all levels, maintaining working relationships with key stakeholders.
Promote effective patient and public engagement.
Work with highly complex data, facts and situations requiring analysis, interpretations and comparisons on a range of options and making decisions on the most appropriate approach
About us
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.
Our six strategic ambitions are deliveringhigh-quality patient care; creating a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
We have also agreed four new organisational values - Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative - and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Job description Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Leadership
To propose and comment on policy and service changes and plans within the pharmacy service. To contribute to, and participate in, pharmacy service developments, and co-ordinate and implement them in line with departmental and Trust policy. To ensure services provided are in line with national agendas, policies, guidelines and frameworks. To actively participate in and contribute to the development, promotion and local implementation of local and regional prescribing guidance. To work with the Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Operations to strategically develop pharmacy services To lead on specific projects or initiatives across all of the Pharmacy Service To motivate and inspire others (both within pharmacy and the Trust). To demonstrate innovation. To extend the boundaries of the profession. To work collaboratively with senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management and to participate in the development of pharmacy services in accordance with the agreed objectives. To develop, implement and monitor policies, guidelines, protocols and procedures at Trust and regional level, as required. Clinical Responsibilities
To act as a specialist practitioner within the field and as an expert pharmacist in the Care Group. To promote and deliver pharmaceutical care for Care Group patients and more generally for all patients. To provide highly specialised and complex evidence-based clinical advice and information using expert knowledge and experience to pharmacy, nursing, medical and other healthcare professionals on the care and treatment of patients, inside and outside of the Trust. To participate in and contribute to the clinical/ward pharmacy service. To actively participate in consultant ward rounds as appropriate. To participate in outpatient clinics, and assist in the further development of the pharmacists role in this area. To undertake patient medication review sessions and patient reviews in outpatient clinics as necessary. To actively participate regularly in multidisciplinary ward rounds, antibiotic ward rounds and other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate, delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care. To practice as an independent prescriber, in area of own expertise, as appropriate and provide direct high quality care to inpatients and outpatients within scope of practice To participate in patient education and counselling schemes for all Care Group patients/carers. To ensure appropriate and timely supply of medication to patients in conjunction with dispensary staff, including the POD scheme and discharge facilitation for patients. To liaise with other Pharmacists, Doctors and GPs to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues. To develop shared care guidelines to support GP prescribing as necessary. To support the set up and provision of Hackett compliant homecare services as necessary. Maintain and further develop specialist information on the use of drugs in clinical conditions relevant to the Care Group, ensuring accurate and up to date clinical information is available to all pharmacists performing out of hours duties in a format relevant to those pharmacists needs. To participate in Trust adverse incident reporting scheme Project Management & Policy Development
To provide expert project management skills to support Pharmacy operations and medicines management processes across various clinical/ specialty areas. To provide direction to other project stakeholders and managers to guide them through initiatives or projects being delivered, ensuring plans are maintained and updated consistently. To work with key stakeholders to develop, refine, and champion project management best practice. To provide expertise on project structuring, planning, benefits quantification and tracking on behalf of Pharmacy. To analyse and resolve highly complex problems to successful conclusion. To manage the creation and delivery of the project plan, including milestones, benefits, risks, approach and resource requirements. To be responsible for managing individuals and teams, which will support the delivery of the project. To be prepared at any point in time to provide a detailed overview of the key project milestones including associated dependencies, risks and issues. To be responsible for policy development required to support service changes during the transformational process. To identify interdependencies and constraints that impact project delivery. To manage and escalate project risks/ issues as needed maintaining a risk and issues register. To provide subject matter expertise towards the development of best practice methodologies, policies and strategies. Information Management
To ensure there are effective systems of governance within function and role. To ensure that data used to support service improvement has the appropriate checks before being used and ensure that any data quality issues are fed back to the appropriate teams. To communicate clearly the information requirements of projects and use analytical skills to articulate requirements and present end product as needed.
Communication & Relationship Management
To build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of programme and policy issues. To lead as the expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders. To provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, including presenting information about projects and dependencies to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in formal settings. To manage potentially difficult situations with staff and stakeholders within change programmes for successful outcomes. To deal with complex and conflicting problems and day to day work load in workshops, meetings, one on one communications and other events, comprising various parts of the business. To nurture key relationships with senior individuals who can influence policy To link with managers and members of other initiatives to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment. To use highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve stakeholders and teams across the Trust, such that they understand and work to achieve the Trusts performance expectations. To ensure optimum engagement from staff, colleagues and stakeholders in order to deliver continuous change, securing appropriate buy in, support and understanding and effective flows of information. To write and deliver communication strategy for the project as appropriate. To ensure project groups/ forums are furnished with appropriate project documentation to agreed time scales.
Financial Management
To ensure the effective business justification is presented for allocation of any required capital funding or increase in revenue budgets, developing and presenting business cases to appropriate sub-committees where necessary. To hold accountability and sign off for all projects delivered To constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of resources and ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year. To ensure physical/ people resources are deployed within the project financial envelope appropriately and ensure that any physical devices are issued and returned. People Management/Performance
Transfer expertise and knowledge as appropriate, developing and delivering formal briefing and training to promote innovation in pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams. Model collaborative style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes and embedding this approach in delivery of own service model as well as promoting practice in other colleagues. Promote an open, transparent and accountable culture at all times across the Trust where lessons are learnt and widely implemented across the Trust. To participate in the recruitment and selection of pharmacy students, trainee pharmacists, junior pharmacists and medicines management pharmacy technicians as needed. To act as a role model for junior staff. To undertake CPD to ensure that knowledge is continually updated and maintain a portfolio of To identify own training needs.
Research and Service Development
Ensures that project benefits from research and development are realised by stakeholder organisations Draw from experience and expertise in other fields and industries, ensuring that the Trust benefits from relevant innovations. Support the publication of any relevant innovations identified.
Person Specification
Pearson Spec Essential
Essential qualifications outlined in PS Registered pharmacist Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice Able to identify and deliver best practice Maintains a broad level of pharmacy practice Experience of working with senior healthcare professionals outside of Pharmacy Appropriate post registration experience in hospital Pharmacy or equivalent area of practice with assessed competencies
Desirable
Skills and attributes outlined in PS Demonstration of advanced practice using evidence mapped to the RPS Advanced Practice Framework Registered Independent Prescriber or willingness to complete Advanced critical appraisal skills
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.
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Employer details Employer name King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 9RS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.kch.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)