Lead Pharmacist - Interstitial lung disease | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Fast forward your pharmacy career at Imperial. With five world-renowned hospitals, we have an opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and forward-thinking pharmacist to work with our Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Department.

The ILD service diagnoses and treats patients with interstitial lung disease. Our ILD service is one of 14 nationally specialist commissioned services in England. As the successful candidate you will support the ILD service by managing your own patient caseload, reviewing patients’ medicines in both patient facing and telephone ILD clinics.

You will also contribute to Multidisciplinary Team meetings as well as providing clinical & directorate support relating to medicines prescribed in ILD. You will help manage patient advice, HCP queries & primary / secondary interface issues. A good understanding of the high-cost drugs process is required as you will be expected to monitor & manage funding applications for high cost drugs within the specialty. As well as the patient facing part of the role, you will contribute to education & training events and represent Imperial at Pharmacy ILD network events.

You will be self-motivated and organised with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will need to be able to develop effective working relationships with a wide range of professionals. You will need good IT skills and be able to work with many different IT programs & databases.

• To ensure the smooth running, day to day management and development of the pharmacy service to the ILD speciality.
• To take active part in the multidisciplinary team meetings for ILD patients prescribed antifibrotics or other drugs to ensure prescribing & doses are appropriate.
• To act as a clinical role model to all pharmacists and ensure the safe, clinically effective, evidence based and cost efficient use of drugs.
• To train and work as an Independent Prescriber according to Trust Policies and within your identified scope of practice, as appropriate to the role.
• To provide a high quality, patient focused pharmaceutical service to in-patients, outpatients, discharge patients and other patients as required by the ILD service.
• To be able to use the computerised e-prescribing & medical notes system used in the Trust.
• To act as a post-graduate certificate/diploma tutor according to needs of the department.
• To participate in education and training of other healthcare professionals.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview..

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 overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jun 2026