Advanced Pharmacist - Medicine

The Methodist Church in Britain; Peterborough, Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Advanced Pharmacist to provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service across a designated CBU, with time split between Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital, delivering medicines policies, ward-round advice, and staff training.

You will contribute to prescribing development, support strategic planning, and help modernise pharmacy services while maintaining GPhC registration and hospital practice standards.

Qualifications

• Post-registration hospital pharmacy practice experience.
• Advanced clinical competencies in designated medical specialties.
• Delivering clinical education and training.
• Line management experience.
• Auditing and implementing changes from clinical audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to a designated CBU ensuring safe and effective medicine use.
• Plan and allocate pharmacy work to meet service needs within the CBU.
• Attend consultant and MDT ward rounds to advise on medications.
• Develop and review medicines policies and guidelines for the area.
• Deliver training and education on medicines to pharmacy staff and MDT.
• Support management with operational planning and strategic development.
• Implement electronic clinical systems across the Trust and local care community.
• Develop prescribing activities in a specialist CBU clinic.
• Work across Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital.
• Support the Principal Pharmacist in delivering priorities and modernising services.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Complex information

Analytical skills

Judgement skills

Teamwork

Communication to senior staff

Education

Bachelor/Master of Pharmacy

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Tools

Electronic clinical systems

Job description

This Advanced Pharmacist post sits in the Medicine Division of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, working to the Principal Pharmacist. The core is a clinical pharmacy service to one designated clinical business unit, including ward round advice, medicines policies and training for the wider team. It is cross-site, dividing time between Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital, with scope to develop prescribing in a specialist clinic. Fit depends on GPhC registration and post-registration hospital practice.

What the job involves

• Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to a designated CBU or speciality, ensuring medicine use is accurate, lawful, safe and effective
• Plan and allocate pharmacy work to meet service needs in the designated CBU or speciality
• Attend consultant and MDT ward rounds to give evidence-based advice on medications
• Develop and review policies, procedures and guidelines for medicine use in the designated area
• Develop and deliver training and education on medicines to pharmacy staff and the wider MDT
• Provide expert clinical and service information to the pharmacy senior management team for operational and strategic planning
• Support pharmacy business planning and the implementation of electronic clinical systems across the Trust and local care community
• Develop and deliver prescribing activities in a specialist CBU clinic
• Work across both hospitals, dividing time between Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital
• Support the Principal Pharmacist in delivering corporate, divisional and departmental priorities
• Contribute to the modernisation of pharmacy services across the Trust

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree or Masters in Pharmacy, with significant practice experience
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate qualification relevant to hospital practice

Registration & licences

• GPhC registration as a pharmacist

Experience

• Post-registration experience of hospital pharmacy practice
• Advanced clinical competencies in designated medical specialities, with up-to-date evidence towards HEE or RPS advanced practice pillars and domains
• Delivering clinical education and training
• Line management experience
• Planning, undertaking, reviewing and implementing changes from audit systems, including clinical audit and Drug Use Review projects

Skills & knowledge

• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office and clinical pharmacy applications
• Communicating highly complex information to senior managers, professionals and patients
• Analytical and judgement skills, with organisational awareness
• Acting appropriately in distressing or emotional circumstances

Other

• Working calmly under pressure and to deadlines, with concentration despite frequent urgent interruptions
• Teamwork, reliability and adaptability
• Open, reflective, warm and respectful manner
• Enthusiasm to improve and develop

Nice to have

• Leadership or management qualification relevant to the NHS, or equivalent management qualification or experience
• Registered non-medical prescriber (support considered to train if not held)
• Credentialed for the RPS Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum
• Significant experience in designated medical speciality pharmacy practice
• Recent experience of operational and strategic planning
• Ability to forecast, innovate and plan long-term services
• Able to demonstrate effective management of staff

What’s offered

• Support to undertake a non-medical prescribing qualification if not already held
• Priority consideration for staff at risk within the Trust and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough ICB