Lead Pharmacist for Renal Medicine

NHS; Reading; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to lead pharmacy services in Renal Medicine at Royal Berkshire Hospital. The role involves managing a team of pharmacists and ensuring high-quality clinical services for renal patients. This permanent, full-time position offers a competitive salary and the chance to make a significant impact in patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC and possess a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy within an acute UK hospital environment.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the renal ward.
• Participate in renal transplant clinics and manage patient prescriptions.
• Liaise with NHSE and ICS to ensure availability of NICE drugs.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy experience

Multidisciplinary team work

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent

Current registered practising Member of GPhC

Job description

Job summary

Lead Pharmacist Renal Medicine

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to be the lead pharmacist for Renal medicine at Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a brand new post to focus on just Renal Medicine. You will have the opportunity to lead a group of pharmacists in providing pharmacy clinical services to Renal medicine working within a healthcare multidisciplinary team.

We are recruiting an enthusiastic, highly motivated, dynamic pharmacist. The individual will be responsible for delivering, managing, and developing a proactive, high-quality, cost-effective, safe pharmacy clinical to patients.

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Service aims to proactively support staff, service users and carers in achieving safe and effective medicines management, optimising the use of medicines by providing a high quality and accessible service.

We do this by providing:

• Accurate and independent information and education about medicines to other healthcare professionals, service users and carers.
• Clinical activities to facilitate the management of medicines by service users within inpatient and community teams.
• Support to ensure that medicines management resources are used cost effectively within Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and across the local health community.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the renal ward
• Participate in renal transplant clinics ensuring patients prescriptions are processed appropriately and medicines related queries are addressed.
• Point of contact for general nephrology, low clearance, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
• Undertake APKD (Tolvaptan clinic with Dr Alchi) - monthly clinic (telephone and F2F), checking APKD shared email daily, ordering and checking blood tests, issuing Tolvaptan prescriptions - Lloyds and Wexham, posting some Tolvaptan to patients)
• Write and review SOPs, PGDs and drug-related guidelines
• Liaise with NHSE and ICS to ensure NICEdrugs are available. If amber, ensuring shared care in place
• Responsible for clinical screening of homecare prescriptions for general nephrology (vasculitis drug avacopan), low clearance, PD and home HD (EPO, roxadustat)
• Complete homecare applications for hospital-only drugs
• Responsible for clinical screening of renal BDU prescriptions (cyclophosphamide, rituximab, IV iron)
• Respond to queries from Out-patient Pharmacy for all renal prescriptions
• Respond to medication queries from team

About us

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated 'Good'with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust's overall rating has also improved to 'good'. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is"Working together to provide outstanding care for our community."

We areCompassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We areAspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We areResourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We areExcellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don't you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.

Details Date posted

13 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

193-7152910NCG

Job locations

Royal Berkshire Hospital

London Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Job description Job responsibilities

For further information on the job role, please refer to the job description and Person specification attached.

This job description is not exhaustive and will be subject to periodic review in association with the post holder.

Job description Job responsibilities

For further information on the job role, please refer to the job description and Person specification attached.

This job description is not exhaustive and will be subject to periodic review in association with the post holder.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• oCurrent registered practising Member of GPhC
• oPostgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• oIndependent Pharmacist Prescriber or will to work towards qualification
• oMasters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent

Desirable

• oAdvance Clinical Practitioner
• oAccredited Diploma Tutor

Experience Essential

• oSubstantial Hospital Pharmacy experience of which a significant amount has been within an acute UK hospital environment.
• oClinical pharmacy experience at ward level.
• oMultidisciplinary team work

Desirable

• oExperience of writing protocols and PGDs

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• oCurrent registered practising Member of GPhC
• oPostgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• oIndependent Pharmacist Prescriber or will to work towards qualification
• oMasters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent

Desirable

• oAdvance Clinical Practitioner
• oAccredited Diploma Tutor

Experience Essential

• oSubstantial Hospital Pharmacy experience of which a significant amount has been within an acute UK hospital environment.
• oClinical pharmacy experience at ward level.
• oMultidisciplinary team work

Desirable

• oExperience of writing protocols and PGDs

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Hospital

London Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Employer's website

https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Hospital

London Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Employer's website

https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)