Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - General Medicine

Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Gillingham is seeking a Specialist Pharmacist to lead the pharmacy service for general medicine patients. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in pharmacy and experience in delivering specialized services. Responsibilities include overseeing clinical services, leading training, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Join us to contribute to patient care and support our values of diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Career development support

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of medicine required.
• Ability to apply regulatory legislation essential.
• Experience in providing highly specialist advice needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide and oversee pharmacy clinical service.
• Carry out patient education and counselling.
• Lead efficiency savings initiatives.

Skills

Advanced problem-solving

Communication

Leadership

IT skills

Education

Master's degree in pharmacy

Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council

Specialist post graduate qualification

Non-medical Independent Prescribing Qualification

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 8a

Interview Date: 14th January 2026

We are recruiting for a Specialist Pharmacist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the department lead for all activity relating to General medicine patients. They will be a role model, working to a high level within the pharmacy department.

Specialist Pharmacists are expected to have a key leadership role, acting as a role model for others. They will communicate and maintain excellent working relationships with all those that use, commission and work within the services delivered.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B - Bold

E - Every person counts

S - Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for providing and overseeing the pharmacy clinical service provided to the general medicine wards within the hospital

Carry out education and counselling of new patients at the start of newly started high risk medicines.

Ensures the provision of a proactive, high quality, cost effective, safe and responsive service to general medicine wards.

To actively develop the general medicine pharmacy service, exploring opportunities for clinically advanced services, such as review of patients in clinic.

To provide a clinical ward pharmacy service to the general medicine wards and lead on the education and training of other members of pharmacy and MDT in the pharmaceutical management of these patients.

Check the clinical accuracy and appropriateness of prescriptions for patients

To ensure the appropriate ordering of medicines for general medicine to ensure medicines are available for patients and to minimise wastage from unused or expired medicines.

Attend the board rounds and MDTs where applicable within general medicine, providing expert pharmaceutical advice.

To actively lead on efficiency savings within general medicine.

To support with the screening of Homecare prescriptions.

To be the pharmacy department liaison with the wider within general medicine.

To identify and implement opportunities for the efficient use of medicines in general medicine.

To support with the late night, weekend and bank holiday rota as part of the departments 7 day services.

To develop a personal audit and research portfolio.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Master's degree in pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist in the UK (or eligible to be)
• Specialist post graduate qualification such as clinical diploma or equivalent experience
• Non-medical Independent Prescribing Qualification

Knowledge

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of medicine
• Knowledge of and ability to apply all aspects of regulatory legislation and guidelines
• Demonstrate expert knowledge covering a range of pharmacy services and able to provide highly specialist advice

Experience

• Experience of working in the area to a high level
• Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives to time in previous posts
• Experience of providing a service to the Specialist area
• Experience in providing and receiving highly complex and contentious information

Values Based Question

• Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Skills

• Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
• Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
• Able to manage and support others
• Advanced IT skills - including MS Word, Excel, email and PowerPoint

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.