Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Rheumatology & Dermatology

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Nhs Trust; Ledston; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust seeks an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to develop specialist practice across rheumatology and dermatology, with a key role in hospital and homecare medicines management at Chapel Allerton Hospital. You will work with consultants, specialists and the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective use of complex therapies.

You will lead clinical pharmacy activities, supporting inpatient wards, high-cost medicines, and medicines governance, while providing

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical pharmacist experience across complex therapies.
• Independent prescribing where qualified.
• Experience with rheumatology/dermatology medicines and high-cost therapies.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input to rheumatology and dermatology patients, including conventional and specialist systemic treatments.
• Develop specialist expertise in medicines used to manage inflammatory and autoimmune disease, including DMARDs and biologics.
• Identify and resolve complex homecare prescription issues, including dose changes and monitoring requirements.
• Work with rheumatology and dermatology teams to support safe and timely supply of specialist medicines.
• Support prescribing and use of high-cost medicines per NICE appraisals and local pathways.
• Provide specialist advice to medical, nursing and pharmacy colleagues and contribute to multidisciplinary decision-making.
• Use independent prescribing skills to optimise treatment and support pharmacist-led models of care.
• Contribute to development and review of medicines-related guidelines and protocols within rheumatology and dermatology.
• Promote medicines safety through governance, audits and learning from incidents.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and safety of homecare and high-cost medicine pathways.
• Lead and contribute to quality improvement, service evaluation and practice research.
• Provide clinical supervision and mentoring to rotational pharmacists and trainees.

Skills

Advanced Clinical Pharmacy

Independent Prescribing

Rheumatology

Dermatology

Job description

Job reference: 002314

Salary: Band 8a - £57,528-£64,750

Closing date: 21/10/2026

Department: MMPS Chapel Allerton Services

Location: Chapel Allerton Hospital

Division: Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services CSU

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Job Summary

Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist looking for an opportunity to develop advanced specialist practice across a diverse and interesting clinical portfolio? We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Advanced Clinical Pharmacist (ACP) to join the pharmacy team at Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Chapel Allerton provides a unique mix of specialist services, and this post offers the opportunity to work across adult rheumatology, dermatology and inpatient clinical pharmacy, alongside a significant role in the management and validation of specialist and high-cost medicines supplied through homecare services.

The post holder will develop expertise in the pharmaceutical management of patients receiving complex therapies, including DMARDs, biologic medicines and other advanced therapies used within rheumatology and dermatology. You will work closely with consultants, specialist nurses, pharmacy colleagues and other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure medicines are used safely, effectively and in accordance with local and national guidance.

Alongside specialist rheumatology and dermatology practice, you will provide advanced clinical pharmacy support to the inpatient wards at Chapel Allerton Hospital. These include services caring for patients undergoing complex and neurological rehabilitation, rheumatology and dermatology treatment, elective orthopaedic surgery and stroke rehabilitation.

A significant component of the role is supporting the safe and effective delivery of medicines through homecare services, including clinical validation of prescriptions, ensuring appropriate monitoring is in place and resolving complex medicines-related queries.

This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist who enjoys combining specialist medicines knowledge, autonomous clinical decision-making and direct patient care with service improvement, education and medicines governance.

If you are passionate about developing advanced clinical pharmacy practice and would like to join a supportive and forward-thinking team, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Why you should join our Team

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the country, offering a range of both general and specialist hospital services with excellent clinical outcomes for patients. We have an international reputation for excellence in specialist care, research and academic training.

Our vision as a Trust is to be the best for specialist and integrated care. This is underpinned by our values - The Leeds Way. The Leeds Way defines who we are, what we believe and how we will work together to deliver the best outcomes for our patients.

Chapel Allerton Hospital is home to a range of specialist services and is a major centre for rheumatology and musculoskeletal medicine in Leeds. The Leeds Rheumatology service has an international reputation for the management and investigation of rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease and has been recognised as a EULAR Centre of Excellence. The hospital provides a varied inpatient and outpatient clinical environment. Inpatient services include complex and neurological rehabilitation, rheumatology and dermatology, elective orthopaedics and stroke rehabilitation, alongside extensive specialist outpatient, day-case and research activity.

MMPS is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. The CSU responsibilities span the provision and use of medicines across all patient pathways.

We offer a range of diverse opportunities to all our staff - https://youtu.be/yxygQFQZcr0. ur vision is ‘Making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines’ and we are continually innovating to improve our services for patients and staff.

What you will bring to the role

You will provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service across Chapel Allerton Hospital, with particular responsibility for supporting adult rheumatology, dermatology, homecare medicines and inpatient clinical services.

You will work with a high degree of professional autonomy and use advanced clinical knowledge to assess patients, optimise treatment and provide specialist pharmaceutical advice to the wider multidisciplinary team.

• Providing advanced clinical pharmacy input to patients within rheumatology and dermatology, including patients receiving conventional and specialist systemic treatments.
• Developing specialist expertise in medicines used to manage inflammatory and autoimmune disease, including DMARDs, biologic medicines, targeted therapies and other high-cost treatments.
• Identifying and resolving complex issues relating to homecare prescriptions, including dose changes, treatment interruptions, monitoring requirements, adverse effects, interactions and continuity of supply.
• Working closely with the rheumatology and dermatology multidisciplinary teams, specialist nurses, prescribers, pharmacy homecare teams and homecare providers to support the safe and timely supply of specialist medicines.
• Supporting appropriate prescribing and use of high-cost medicines in accordance with NICE technology appraisals, commissioning requirements and locally agreed treatment pathways, including relevant approval and assurance processes.
• Providing specialist advice to medical, nursing, pharmacy and other healthcare professionals and actively contributing to multidisciplinary clinical decision-making.
• Using independent prescribing skills, where appropriately qualified, to optimise treatment and support pharmacist-led models of care.
• Contributing to the development and review of medicines-related guidelines, prescribing pathways and clinical protocols within rheumatology, dermatology and the wider Chapel Allerton portfolio.
• Promoting medicines safety through incident review, audit, governance activity and implementation of learning from medication-related incidents.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency, safety and sustainability of homecare and high-cost medicine pathways.
• Leading and contributing to quality improvement, audit, service evaluation and practice research, particularly where these can improve medicines optimisation or patient experience.
• Providing clinical supervision, training and mentoring to rotational pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other members of the pharmacy team.

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

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.