Senior Lead Pharmacist - Biologics and Medicines Value

NHS; Reading; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Reading is seeking an experienced Senior Lead Pharmacist to enhance patient care in biologics and medicines value. The ideal candidate will combine leadership with clinical practice, managing a team while optimizing treatment for patients. This role requires significant experience in clinical pharmacy, a strong background in healthcare policy, and the ability to lead service improvements. Competitive benefits and a supportive environment are offered.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Contribution to patient care

Qualifications

• Current registered practising Member of GPhC.
• Senior clinical pharmacy experience (Band 8a+) with patient-facing role.
• Broad knowledge of wider NHS policy and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure optimal use of medicines to deliver best patient outcomes.
• Lead quality improvement projects across specialities.
• Mentor and develop pharmacy colleagues.

Skills

Patient-facing prescribing

Clinical pharmacy practice

Leadership

Service improvement initiatives

Team management

Education

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Advance Clinical Practitioner

MBA or Leadership & Management degree

Job description

Senior Lead Pharmacist - Biologics and Medicines Value

Join us to shape the future of biologics at RBFT, ensuring every patient gets the right treatment, at the right time, for the best value. This is a leadership role with a direct impact on patient care while ensuring every pound spent delivers the greatest value for patients and the NHS.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated pharmacist to take on the role of Senior Lead Pharmacist for Biologics and Medicines Value.

In this role, you will combine senior leadership with direct clinical practice, including patient-facing prescribing responsibilities. You will work closely with patients and clinical teams to optimise treatment, ensuring safe initiation, monitoring and review of biologic and other high-cost medicines. This balance of strategic leadership and hands-on prescribing practice means you will have both direct impact on patient care and influence on system-wide medicines value.

The post offers the chance to shape and deliver quality improvement projects across specialities such as rheumatology, and gastroenterology. You will work collaboratively with clinicians, commissioners, and patients to identify opportunities for improvement, support service design, and embed sustainable practice within this new service.

As a senior leader within the pharmacy team, you will also play a key role in mentoring and developing colleagues, contributing to the wider medicines value agenda at Trust and system level.

Main duties of the job

The Pharmacy Service at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is committed to supporting patients, carers and staff in achieving safe, effective and person-centred use of medicines. Our focus is on ensuring that medicines are used optimally to deliver the best outcomes for patients while making the most effective use of NHS resources.

We do this by:

Providing clear, evidence-based information and education about medicines to healthcare professionals, patients and carers.

Delivering clinical pharmacy services that enable safe prescribing, administration and monitoring of medicines across inpatient and community settings.

Working in partnership with clinical teams and system partners to ensure that medicines are used in a way that is both clinically effective and financially sustainable.

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 are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent 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.

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

• Current registered practising Member of GPhC
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Advance Clinical Practitioner
• Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Postgraduate diploma/degree in Leadership & Management or MBA

Experience

• Senior clinical pharmacy experience (Band8a+) with patient facing, specialist or ward/clinic role
• Able to provide specialised clinical pharmacy services within own area of expertise, including prescription prescribing, review, dispensing and supply, and to give highly specialised advice to clinicians and patients on the safe and effective use of medicines, in line with medicines legislation and risk management principles.
• Experience within a pharmacist led clinic
• Track record of large-scale service improvement and cost-saving initiatives
• Experience of delivering presentations at local, regional, national level
• Experience of managing teams
• Ability to foster an inclusive, innovative culture in a diverse workforce
• Provision of medicine usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice
• Experience in producing horizon scans or commissioning plans for high-cost medicines.
• Broad knowledge of wider NHS policy and guidance
• Experience coaching or mentoring via formal programmes
• Contribution to peer-reviewed research or publication in clinical pharmacy

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.