Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Neonatal Pharmacist to join our expanding neonatal pharmacy team across Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital. The role focuses on neonatal dosing, medication safety, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

The successful candidate will contribute to quality improvement, education, and clinical governance while working within a supportive, forward-thinking paediatric service.

Qualifications

• Extensive clinical experience within neonates or paediatrics.
• Demonstrated leadership skills within a team setting.
• Understanding of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies.

Responsibilities

• Provide neonatal pharmaceutical care within Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital.
• Lead on safe medication usage, governance, audits and education.
• Support cross-cover to obstetrics and paediatric services and contribute to service rota.

Skills

Neonatal experience

Team leadership

MDT collaboration

Clinical governance

Job description

Job Description

For questions about this job, contact:

Name - Luke Price

Position - Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader

Email - [e-mail]

Phone number - 01133926133

Shortlisting Date: 9/11/26

Interview Date: TBC

Job Summary

This is an exciting time to join the neonatal pharmacy team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. We have the opportunity to increase our workforce in line with a planned expansion of our two neonatal units. We have funding available for both a full-time and part-time member of staff. So, for the right candidate(s), we will consider all requests for part-time working. Our goal is to align ourselves with national priorities regarding medication safety initiatives in neonates by working towards NPPG standards for pharmacy staffing and playing our part in vital quality improvement work.

The successful candidate(s) will spend the majority of their clinical time covering our neonatal units at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital. You will be joining a well embedded team who join daily ward rounds for ICU and HDU level patients, prescribe parenteral nutrition and have a close working relationship with the MDT. There will also be some expectation to provide cross cover to our obstetrics wards as well as offering support to the wider paediatric pharmacy team and regularly contributing to our service rota, including working in our aseptics unit and paediatric warfarin clinic.

Clinical governance and leadership responsibilities to neonates will be divided between the team members at the conclusion of the recruitment process. These responsibilities will include but are not limited to, leading on safe medication usage within your clinical area, research and audit, overseeing safe storage of medicine, education and training, guideline and monograph development and driving quality improvement work.

Why you should join our Team

Based within the Leeds General Infirmary, the Leeds Children’s Hospital is one of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK and treats patients from across Yorkshire and the North of England as a secondary and tertiary referral centre. Leeds is the level 1 surgical centre for the Yorkshire & Humber Congenital Heart Disease Network and a quaternary paediatric liver unit including liver transplant. Other specialist services delivered include renal transplant, cancer services and trauma.

The pharmacy department at Leeds is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. The paediatric pharmacy team is a highly skilled and dedicated group of professionals committed to delivering exceptional pharmaceutical care to paediatric patients with acute and chronic conditions. Working within one of the largest and most advanced paediatric hospitals in the UK, the team fosters a collaborative and supportive atmosphere, where pharmacists, technicians and pharmacy support workers work closely with the MDT to optimise medication usage and improve clinical outcomes. Our vision is making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines and our work ethic is one of excellence, innovation and compassion in delivering the highest quality of care to children. Leeds Teaching Hospitals offers fantastic opportunities for professional development, research involvement and career progression, with a culture that encourages continuous learning and innovation. Being part of this team means joining a forward thinking, dynamic and highly respected paediatric pharmacy service.

What You Will Bring To The Role

We are looking for a candidate(s) who can bring a passion for caring for neonatal patients.

A successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience of:

• Extensive clinical experience within neonates or paediatrics
• Team player
• Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
• A demonstration of strong leadership skills

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

Responsible

Open and Honest

One Team

Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose:

Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our Priorities

People

Improvement and Innovation

Partnerships

Outcomes

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.