Medication Safety Specialist Pharmacist

Medication Safety Specialist Pharmacist

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 23 February 2026

We are seeking a motivated and experienced pharmacist who is passionate about patient safety to join the King's Medication Safety Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to deliver local and national medication safety priorities across the organisation working in our team of pharmacist and nurse medication safety specialists.

Success in this post will require:

• Empathy and curiosity
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Understanding the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
• Experience and/or ready to further develop skills in improvement and implementation sciences and project management
• Digital literacy and data management skills
• Ability to be agile to adapt to changing priorities, partnerships and demands

Many opportunities are available for personal and professional development as you work with colleagues and patients across the Trust to develop and implement improvement initiatives and provide risk and safety expertise.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary Medication Safety Team to lead, provide and develop specialist Medication Safety services to the Trust.

• Take a leadership role in developing, delivering and monitoring the Trust's Medication Safety agenda.
• Act as a specialist role-model and provide expertise in Medication Safety across the Trust.
• Promote and facilitate safe medication use and practice.
• Develop, assess and monitor the implementation of local and national safety guidance.
• Implement change to reduce the risk of preventable harm caused by medications.
• Facilitate learning from patient safety insights, including by coordinating and leading responses to safety events.
• Promote and drive a positive safety culture with regard to medicines use and practice.
• Provide education and training to healthcare professionals within and outside the Trust.
• Participate in practice and clinical research and audit.
• Deputise for Consultant Pharmacist Medication Safety.

As a Trust and department we support flexible working. For this role we would consider applicants seeking flexibility in contracts and/or working arrangements.

We welcome applications from those who have previously applied for this post.

About us

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD: Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

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.

Person Specification Education and Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification
• Registered Independent Prescriber or willingness to complete
• Completed NHSE Patient Safety Syllabus Modules 3 and 4 or equivalent healthcare human factor ergonomics training

Knowledge and Experience

• Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice
• Experience of protocol / guideline development
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda particularly as it relates to patient safety
• Substantial relevant post registration experience in acute NHS hospital pharmacy
• Demonstration of advanced practice using evidence mapped to the RPS Core Advanced Practice Curriculum
• Experience of leading change in the NHS

Skills and Competencies

• Be able to plan, manage and deliver large and complex pieces of work to deadlines within resource allocation
• Be able to provide highly complex information on patient safety, medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues and impart knowledge to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor/executive director level)
• Be able to triangulate safety data and insights from multiple sources, determine local relevance or implications and to identify patterns, trends and themes

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.

Address

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Salary

£64,156 to £71,148 a year per annum, including high cost allowance

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

213-Division-A B

Job locations

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust