Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, Medicine/Surgery with Practice Dev

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust; Northampton; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is seeking an Advanced Pharmacist (Medicine or Surgery) to advance clinical practice and lead medicines optimisation across services. You will work closely with Principal and Associate Chief Pharmacists, supporting junior staff and driving safe, cost-efficient medicine use.

The role emphasises leadership, collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, and development of clinical pathways, with involvement in weekend, on-call duties and service development.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with different clinical teams and as a prescriber.
• Ability to train and support junior pharmacists, technicians and other MDT members.
• Strong Medicines Optimisation and clinical leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver expert medicines optimisation across medicine services.
• Provide clinical leadership and strategic direction.
• Lead medicines governance activities and prescribing guidance development.
• Develop clinical pathways and prescribing guidance.
• Collaborate across primary, secondary and community care interfaces.
• Develop and support innovative pharmacy practice, including prescribing and digital medicines management systems.
• Supervise, mentor and develop pharmacists, trainee pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
• Participate in weekend, late duty and on-call services.

Skills

Advanced practice

Leadership

Mentoring

Clinical collaboration

Education

Pharmacy degree

GPhC registration

Job description

This is an opportunity to take the next step in your development and leadership by working (for a fixed term to cover maternity leave) as an Advanced Pharmacist for either Medicine or Surgery with some additional responsibility for Practice Development within our Pharmacy team at Northampton General Hospital.

You will work closely and be supported by the Principal Pharmacists for Medicine and Surgery and the Associate Chief Pharmacists for Clinical Services. We are looking for someone who is thinking about taking that next step into advanced practice and has significant experience working with different clinical teams, as a prescriber and is confident to train and support junior pharmacists; technicians and other members of the multidisciplinary team with their own knowledge and experience.

Your specialist portfolio will be discussed and agreed at interview, allowing you to align your expertise and career aspirations with service needs.

As an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, you will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, providing expert medicines optimisation, clinical leadership and strategic direction across medicine services. You will play a key role in supporting patient flow, improving patient outcomes and ensuring the safe, effective and cost-efficient use of medicines.

You Will

• Deliver expert clinical pharmacy services to acute medical patients.
• Lead medicines optimisation initiatives and service developments.
• Support prescribing and medicines governance activities.
• Contribute to the development of clinical pathways and prescribing guidance.
• Work collaboratively across primary, secondary and community care interfaces.
• Develop and support innovative pharmacy practice, including prescribing and digital medicines management systems.
• Supervise, mentor and develop pharmacists, trainee pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
• Participate in weekend, late duty and on-call services.

We recognise that AI tools can support application writing; however, candidates are asked to keep their use to a minimum. Responses should reflect your own experience, skills and knowledge, as over-reliance on AI-generated content may result in generic answers that do not accurately represent your abilities.

University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.

Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jessica Darby Job title: Principal Pharmacist, Medicines & Urgent Care Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01604 545692

We welcome informal discussions and visits from prospective applicants who would like to learn more about this opportunity.

Please contact Jessica Darby [e-mail] or Rachel Kontogonis [e-mail] our Principal Pharmacists, for Medicine and Surgery or

Priya Mistry Advanced Pharmacist, Surgery [e-mail] or Jessica Fernando Advanced Pharmacist, Admissions [e-mail]

or the pharmacy office [e-mail] to arrange an informal visit.