Pharmacy Projects Lead

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., 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

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.