Lead Collaborative Pharmacist - Surgical and Critical Care

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Lead Collaborative Pharmacist to manage and develop clinical pharmacy services in surgical and critical care. The role requires extensive clinical pharmacy skills, strong leadership abilities, and excellent communication. Responsibilities include leading pharmacy staff, implementing innovative services, and ensuring high-quality patient care. Benefits include a generous holiday scheme and NHS discounts.

Benefits

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

NHS Discounts

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Free counselling service

Qualifications

• Ability to motivate teams to deliver objectives.
• Strong team spirit and ability to motivate others.
• Capability to critically review and interpret clinical literature.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage pharmacy staff involved in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services.
• Implement innovative clinical pharmacy services to meet the needs of the Collaboratives.
• Ensure a consistently high quality clinical pharmacy service is delivered.

Skills

Extensive clinical pharmacy skills

Excellent communication skills

Team leadership

Change management

Education

MPharm or equivalent

Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent

Management or Leadership Qualification

Job description

Go back North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Collaborative Pharmacist - Surgical and Critical Care

The closing date is 12 November 2025

Are you a highly experienced clinical pharmacist with a passion for high quality patient centred care? Are you passionate about working with the wider multi-disciplinary team and supporting them with the unique skills that the pharmacy team can add to patient care?

Due to promotion, an opportunity has arisen to lead our Surgical Pharmacy team, leading and developing clinical pharmacy services to meet the needs of the Surgical Care, Specialist Surgical Care, and Critical Care, Anaesthetics and Theatres Collaboratives.

We are looking for someone with extensive clinical pharmacy skills and experience; you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with a strong team spirit and the ability to motivate others. You will provide senior leadership support to the pharmacists working within the Collaboratives and across the wider Trust to improve the use, management and safety of medicines. The post will also deputise for the Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services as required.

This post has cross-site responsibilities across various locations in North Cumbria, with base agreed on employment.

Main duties of the job

• Lead, develop and be a role model for clinical pharmacy services to the clinical areas managed by the Surgical Care, Specialist Surgical Care and Critical Care, Anaesthetics and Theatres Collaboratives including Colorectal, Endoscopy, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Upper GI, Urology, Vascular, Dermatology, ENT, Ophthalmology, Trauma and Orthopaedics, ITU, Acute Pain and Theatres
• Work in accordance with objectives set by the Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services, to drive and implement innovative clinical pharmacy services to meet the needs of the Collaboratives.
• Lead by example in an agreed specialism and ensure a consistently high quality clinical pharmacy service is delivered to all areas of the Collaboratives in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Lead and manage pharmacy staff involved in the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service e.g. advanced and specialist pharmacists, medicines management technicians, rotational pharmacists and trainee pharmacists.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment.Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £21.50 + Administration cost of £5.90 = £27.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £49.50 + administration cost of £5.90 = £55.40. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Evidence of CPD
• Management or Leadership Qualification
• Membership of RPS

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive specialist therapeutic and clinical knowledge relevant to the post and collaboratives.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of relevant pharmacy/medicines standards, legal requirements and guidelines
• Knowledge and awareness of implications of current developments in pharmacy practice and NHS strategies/policy
• Knowledge of current and planned developments in the pharmacy profession.
• Understanding of NHS managerial and financial frameworks
• Evidence of successful change management
• Participation in research projects.

Skills and Aptitudes

• Ability to motivate teams to deliver objectives
• Ability to prioritise competing demands; work under pressure and deliver against a background of change and uncertainty.
• Ability to make judgements in highly complex situations
• Ability to critically review, analyse and interpret clinical literature, and medicines legislation
• Appropriate IT skills to utilise clinical information systems, pharmacy computer systems, databases and other software to improve patient care.
• Enthusiastic, self motivating, good organisational skills
• Demonstrate ability to work independently and within a team
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Co-operative and flexible working style with Trust wide teams
• Friendly, approachable, able to convey messages with empathy and diplomacy.
• Competent and confident to deliver complex presentations and training sessions
• Coaching skills.

Other requirements

• Able to travel independently between sites.
• Ability to participate in on-call rota and 7 day working

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.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust