Lead Pharmacist - Anticoagulant Services, 22.5 hpw

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Lead Pharmacist with a special interest in anticoagulation. The role leads anticoagulation services, develops pathways, and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to optimise medicines use and patient safety.

The post focuses on leadership, service development, and education, with on-call and rota duties as part of the leadership responsibilities within the Trust.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in hospital pharmacy practice.
• Experience in clinical teaching, audit, and research.
• Leadership and management experience across a pharmacy team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional leadership for anticoagulation services.
• Lead development and evaluation of anticoagulation pathways.
• Offer expert education to healthcare professionals and patients.

Skills

Hospital pharmacy

Clinical teaching

Audit & quality

Research & development

Leadership & management

Education

MPharm or equivalent

GPhC registration

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (An on call service to the Trust is provided by all pharmacists. Work on rotational weekend, late night, on-call and Bank Holiday rotas as appropriate.) Job ref 389-26-8321611

Employer Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT - Pharmacy Department Town BRADFORD Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Closing Date: 18.10.26

Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 19.10.26

Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 30.10.26

If you are an experienced pharmacist with a special interest in anticoagulation and a drive to deliver outstanding clinical services, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Lead Pharmacist to join our team and provide clinical leadership across our anticoagulation services.

This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist who is passionate about improving patient outcomes, optimising medicines use and developing high-quality services.

You will play a key role in leading and developing the service, ensuring the delivery of safe, evidence-based and person-centred care to patients requiring anticoagulation.

You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, healthcare professionals and patients to optimise anticoagulant therapy, promote best practice and drive continuous service improvement.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical and professional leadership for anticoagulation services.

Support the safe and effective use of anticoagulants.

Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of anticoagulation pathways and service improvements.

Provide expert advice and education to healthcare professionals, patients and carers.

Promote medicines optimisation, patient safety and adherence to relevant guidelines and policies.

Work collaboratively with medical, nursing, pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams.

Support audit, quality improvement and clinical governance initiatives.

Contribute to the education, training and development of pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals.

Working for our organisation

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We are one team

We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CLINICAL

Provide, lead and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the specialist area in line with patient and departmental needs, to ensure the delivery of a high quality, patient centred and effective clinical pharmacy service.

Contribute effectively to patient care as part of the multidisciplinary team, to make proactive interventions in individual patient’s therapy and to provide information on drug related issues and to act as the lead pharmacy contact for the specialist area.

Contribute to the multidisciplinary identification, review and development and ratification of treatment guidelines and policies in the specialist area, in order to promote safe and evidence-based patient care.

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Lead and manage the work of all the pharmacists, clinical pharmacy technicians and medicines optimisation assistants working in the specialist area, to maintain and further develop a high-quality pharmacy workforce.

Participate in and deliver to line managed staff, the departmental individual performance review programme to ensure that staff performance and development is maintained as a high priority in line with the needs of the service.

Participate in the recruitment, selection and retention of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, in order to maintain and further develop a high quality pharmacy workforce.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Manage, within the specialised area, the teaching of Trainee Pharmacists and Early Careers Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Assistants to support them in their induction, development and obtaining their accreditations.

Ensure pharmacy staff are updated on clinical guidelines used in the specialist area, through the participation in training programmes and through the provision of specialist medication information and standard operating procedures.

Provide multidisciplinary education and training on all aspects of medicines management.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Contribute to research within the pharmacy department. This includes identifying areas of research, including identifying gaps in evidence, applying appropriate methods to address identified gaps and generating new evidence.

Share good practice by publications and presentations within the Trust, throughout the local health economy and nationally.

PROFESSIONAL

Create an inclusive environment and demonstrate cultural effectiveness.

Recognise and respect the role of others in the wider pharmacy and multi-disciplinary team.

Participate in late night, weekend, Bank Holiday and on call rota duties.

Person specification

Experience

• Significant experience in all aspects of hospital pharmacy
• Training and/or significant experience in clinical teaching/tutoring, audit, practice research, risk management.
• Experience of working in a similar role

Skills

• Accurate and concise written and oral communication skills.
• Able to receive, summarise, communicate and present information to wide range of professionals across the Trust.
• Proven persuasion and negotiation skills (to influence prescribing), tact and diplomacy skills.
• Effective independent and team working skills.
• Ability to analyse and interpret a wide range of clinical information.
• Proven problem solving approach on a wide range of clinical issues, and able to think laterally to develop new ideas.
• Able to assess staff performance against agreed standards and criteria, and to provide feedback and development.
• Able to, with consultation, prioritise, plan and adjust current pharmacy services within the specialised area.
• Able to work effectively to short, medium, long term and changing deadlines.
• Able to work effectively in front of an audience.
• Able to review and provide specialised advice on medicine use in specific clinical areas.
• Able to obtain, interpret, analyse and report on drug expenditure within the specialised area.
• Able to work independently and under guidance, within departmental, Trust and statutory and professional codes of practice/ethics.

Knowledge

• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality.
• Broad knowledge of therapeutics.
• Specialised knowledge of therapeutics and medicine use within acute medicine.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the formulation, preparation, and therapeutic action of medicines.

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent.
• Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• Working towards Faculty Accreditation.

Other Requirements

• Demonstrates continued professional development or equivalent knowledge through extensive experience.
• Flexibility in working hours to suit the needs of the department.
• Current driving licence/able to travel between sites.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Philip Moore Job title Assistant Director of Pharmacy - Clinical Services Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01274 364231