Prescribing Governance Pharmacist

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a proactive Prescribing Governance Pharmacist has emerged with Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. The role focuses on ensuring cost-effective prescribing, optimising medicine use, and supporting a high standard of care across the Trust. This is a senior position with developmental opportunities and flexible working options.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing with long service

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Comprehensive support for maternity, paternity, and adoption

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• GPhC registered Pharmacist required.
• Extensive post-registration study/CPD needed.
• Experience in prescribing and medicines management is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients and optimize prescribing.
• Support medicines optimization agenda and develop medicine usage reports.
• Lead a medicines optimization plan within the Trust.

Skills

Pharmaceutical knowledge

Leadership skills

Decision making

Education

Masters degree in Pharmacy

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Tools

IT programs

Job description

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Prescribing Governance Pharmacist

Employer Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust Location Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom Salary GBP 55,690.00 - 62,682.00 per year Closing date 21 Jun 2025

View more categories View less categories Sector Engineering ,IT ,Security Job Role Corporate Governance Job Type Permanent

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for aproactive and motivated pharmacist with broad clinical knowledge and a goodunderstanding of medicines optimisation to join our team. This is a new seniorrole, which has been created with a dedicated remit to support cost-effectiveprescribing and medicines decisions, whilst optimising use of our digitalsystems to deliver cost savings across the Trust. You must be able to workcollaboratively to deliver the highest quality of care, and to encourage thedevelopment of others, the service and yourselves. It will involve travelacross Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Currently there are no weekendduties, bank holiday working or late nights.You may be expected to work some Saturday mornings in the future. For further discussions about the role orflexible working, please contact us. Initially 12-month fixed term contractwith a view to extend.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be a confident decisionmaker, with clear leadership skills, excellent pharmaceutical knowledge and asound understanding of pharmacy service and hospital service. The post holderwill

Deliverpharmaceutical care to patients in the Trust; recommend, substantiate, andcommunicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes inprescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed asappropriate.

Support themedicines optimisation agenda at individual clinical service level. Thisincludes the provision of clinical service level medicine usage reports and tocontribute to policy and protocol development to support the safe andcost-effective use of medicines

Work as part ofan integrated team supporting prescribers across the Trust in optimising theuse of medicines and other prescribable produces.

Be responsiblefor the development and delivery of a medicines optimisation plan for theTrust.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitalsand community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental healthand learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people ofall ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexibleworking options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you workunsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit ourwebsite.

We encourage you to read the attached applicant guidance notes.

Sharingyour data - As a data controller we may sometimes need to process your data topursue our legitimate business interests, for example to request a survey fromyou (optional), to support the Trusts understanding of where you gainedinterest in working for the Trust.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the roleplease refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the roleplease refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GPhC registered Pharmacist
• Masters degree in Pharmacy or pre 2000 equivalent
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Evidence of extensive post registration study/CPD
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Experience

Essential

• Significant knowledge and experience of prescribing and medicines management
• Significant knowledge of the national pharmacy agenda
• Management of resources and delivery of projects
• Substantial experience of hospital pharmacy (including considerable experience as a clinical pharmacist)
• High level of competence in standard range of IT programs

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• GPhC registered Pharmacist
• Masters degree in Pharmacy or pre 2000 equivalent
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Evidence of extensive post registration study/CPD
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Experience

Essential

• Significant knowledge and experience of prescribing and medicines management
• Significant knowledge of the national pharmacy agenda
• Management of resources and delivery of projects
• Substantial experience of hospital pharmacy (including considerable experience as a clinical pharmacist)
• High level of competence in standard range of IT programs

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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Address

2 Kings Court

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1JR

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