Band 8A Senior Specialist Pharmacist – HIV

London, England, United Kingdom

7/10/2025

Job title – 8a Senior Specialist Pharmacist – HIV

Fixed Term 24-month contract

An exciting opportunity has become available for a dynamic, motivated and forward-thinking Band 8a Pharmacist with prior experience in HIV to join our dedicated HIV Pharmacy team at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

This 24-month fixed term role offers the chance to contribute to delivering high quality clinical pharmacy services across all Royal Free London sites, supporting the HIV business unit. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in

• Providing expert input into HIV prescribing and ongoing treatment monitoring
• Ensuring timely and effective supply of HIV medications via outpatient pharmacy and homecare services
• Overseeing the daily operations of the HIV pharmacy team.
  
  

We are looking for candidates who have previously worked at Band 7 or as a specialist pharmacist within an HIV/ID setting. Experience in participating in consultant -led ward rounds, contributing to the development of policies and clinical guidelines and supporting the supervision and training of staff is essential.

This is a great opportunity to build on your specialist knowledge in HIV care while contributing to a collaborative and innovative pharmacy team.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Regularly attend and actively contribute to consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team (MDT) discussions for complex cases.
• Delivery of a high quality, specialist ward-based and outpatient pharmacy service including medicines reconciliation, review of complex medication regimens, medicines optimisation and adverse reaction and interaction monitoring
• Training and supervision of junior members of the pharmacy team
• Timely supply of medicines for in-patients, out-patients and discharge
• Development and implementation of clinical guidelines
• Effective control of drug expenditure and management of processes regarding high-cost drugs
• Use independent prescribing skills to manage patients in HIV pharmacy led outpatient clinics.
• Counselling HIV patients on their medicines to enhance compliance
• To participate in audits and practice-based research
  
  

To work with the clinical risk team to minimise the risk of medicines

The HIV service at the Royal Free London NHS Trust is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the UK. We are also considered one of the leading ID centers, with a High-Level Isolation Unit, capable of taking highly infectious disease patients including Ebola/Lassa fever.

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, North Middlesex Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This large scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients. With many specialities including renal, liver, oncology, infectious disease, haemophilia and scleroderma which are underpinned by a strong research agenda, the Royal Free is renowned for providing excellent patient care.

The HIV pharmacy team is a well-integrated and highly respected part of the HIV/ID unit, playing a vital role in ensuring the safe and cost-efficient use of medicines within this specialist area. The team works closely with the wider multidisciplinary group to support high quality patient care and service delivery.

Together the team brings a wealth of experience and expertise, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment for both staff and patients

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jane Akodu Job title: Lead Pharmacist - HIV Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 02077940500

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