Barts Health NHS Trust • London E1 1FR
About this role
Do you want to join an award-winning department that puts clinical pharmacists at the forefront of medicines optimisation and patient care?
The Pharmacy Department at Barts Health NHS Trust serves a diverse population of 2.5 million people across our major hospital sites in the City of London and East London. We are one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, delivering innovative, patient-focused pharmacy services across a world-renowned healthcare organisation.
We are seeking an ambitious and motivated senior pharmacist to join our team as a Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Medicines CIPs. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering medicines optimisation, driving efficiencies, and identifying medicines-related financial risk across our services.
Working closely with pharmacy teams and the wider multidisciplinary workforce, you will lead and support the development and implementation of medicines Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs). You will collaborate with colleagues across the Trust and local health economy to deliver high-quality, cost-effective patient care while ensuring consistency and sustainability in medicines use.
The successful candidate will
· Lead and support medicines efficiency and transformation projects
· Identify and implement innovative medicines optimisation initiatives
· Monitor, track and report on medicines savings programmes
- To support the Royal London Pharmacy department and divisional teams in delivering medicines efficiencies and identifying medicines related financial risk.
- To contribute to the work to deliver transformation projects as required, and to be the project lead for selected projects.
- To manage the overall medicines efficiency work-plan, providing monthly status reports and assisting teams in achieving deadlines.
- To manage audit projects to assess outcomes and to assist in development and interpretation of key metrics.
- To lead on delivery of medicines Cost Improvement Plans (CIPs), tracking and reporting on progress.
- To assist with the identification and facilitate the implementation of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) programmes for medicines, and to share schemes with other local providers to ensure consistency across the health economy.
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/s below.
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 Monday 1 Jun 2026