Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Immunoglobulins and East Midlands SRIAP

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist for immunoglobulin management within a supportive team. The candidate will oversee high-cost medicines while fostering collaboration across specialties, offering a chance for professional development in medicines finance and procurement.

Benefits

Supportive team environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Post-registration experience in hospital pharmacy is required.
• Experience in managing immunoglobulins and high-cost medicines is preferable.
• Leadership and management training preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage immunoglobulin usage and act as Professional Secretary for the EM-SRIAP.
• Support medicines finance team and implement medicines value schemes.
• Participate in general clinical pharmacy duties across multiple campuses.

Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy)/MPharm/MSc or equivalent

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Immunoglobulins and East Midlands SRIAP

Band 8a

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent: Whilst funding is available for a full-time post, part-time hours will be considered for a successful candidate Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week Job ref 164-7226860

Site Trust wide Town Nottingham Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/06/2025 23:59

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic pharmacist to join our well-established medicines finance team. The role offers development opportunities around medicines finance/commissioning, procurement, project management, working with colleagues at local/regional/national level whilst maintaining specialist clinical pharmacy skills.

You will work closely alongside the Lead Pharmacist: High Cost Medicines Management and wider HCM/immunoglobulins team, whilst also linking with the wider medicines finance, homecare, procurement, ICT and specialist clinical teams.

You will act as Specialist Pharmacist for immunoglobulins at NUH and the EM-SRIAP. NUH are the Lead (Hub) Trust in the East Midlands for managing the safe and appropriate use of immunoglobulins and host the EM-SRIAP, mandated by NHS England to provide governance and assurance over immunoglobulin use in the region.

What we offer:

Supportive and friendly team of colleagues covering a wide range of expertise.

Opportunity to lead on the management of a specialist medicine across a number of clinical specialties and act as the Professional Secretary for both the NUH IAP and EM-SRIAP.

Support to advance your specialist knowledge of high cost drugs, commissioning, medicines finance and implementation of medicines value schemes.

Opportunity to apply and further develop clinical pharmacy expertise, through delivering clinical pharmacy services to a defined area.

Main duties of the job

In addition to this summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification.

Key Responsibilities:

Specialist Pharmacist for Immunoglobulins at NUH and the East Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel (EM-SRIAP), including:

Support the oversight of immunoglobulin usage across the East Midlands and act as the Professional Secretary for the East Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel.

Provide specialist clinical pharmacist oversight of the management of immunoglobulins across NUH, in line with national commissioning criteria, governance arrangements, product allocations, and nationally mandated reporting requirements.

Act as Professional Secretary to the NUH Immunoglobulin Assessment Panel.

To line manage and support the EM-SRIAP Co-Ordinator and the Pharmacy Immunoglobulin & Reimbursement Scheme Officer.

Partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken whilst delivering against the NUH medicines optimisation strategy.

Provide support to the High Cost Medicines Team on a regular basis, and the wider Medicines Finance Team as necessary. Support the team with implementation of medicines value schemes.

You will be required to partake in general clinical pharmacy duties, work across both City Hospital and QMC campuses of NUH and to take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties and senior support rota for the on-call pharmacist

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has a national and international reputation for many of its specialist services and expertise. We have achieved a national and international reputation for many of our specialist services including stroke, renal, neurosciences, cancer services and trauma. We are also at the forefront of many research programmes and new surgical procedures. As a teaching Trust we have a strong relationship with our colleagues at the University of Nottingham and other universities across the East Midlands. We play a vital role in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Further information about NUH NHS Trust can be found on the NUH website.

Twitter: Follow us @NUHPharmacy

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The ideal candidate will be a highly capable, dynamic clinical pharmacist with a broad experience of working in the hospital sector and an enthusiasm to be involved with the complex, specialist and ever developing area of immunoglobulins and high cost medicines.

Specialist knowledge around immunoglobulins, high cost medicines and commissioning pathways would be preferable, however full support would be given to advance the development and knowledge base of an appropriate candidate.

Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Someone who can work well independently whilst also being an active team player.

Experience in project work and implementation of changes to prescribing practice, including MDT working.

Experience in collating, analysing and presenting complex clinical/financial data.

Please see the attached detailed job description and person specification for further details.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

• B.Pharm /BSc (Pharmacy)/MPharm/MSc or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate experience
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
• Leadership and management training

Experience

• Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy
• Experience of risk management and clinical governance processes
• Experience of audit work
• Experience of developing and implementing action plans to introduce a new service/service change
• Experience of developing and implementing specialty-wide policies and procedures/guidelines with pharmacy, nursing and medical teams
• Experience of managing clinical and/or governance aspects around immunoglobulins
• Experience as professional secretary to a clinical governance group or committee
• Experience of medicines finance issues (eg cost containment schemes)
• Knowledge of national/regional funding and commissioning pathways for high cost medicines

Communication and relationship skills

• Strong, accurate and concise written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills
• Able to receive, summarise, communicate and present information to a wide range of professionals
• Effective independent and team working skills, including ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
• Proven persuasion and negotiation skills (to influence prescribing), tact and diplomacy skills

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information
• Proven problem solving approach on a wide range of clinical issues, and able to think laterally to develop new ideas
• Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management
• Experience of analysing complex financial or clinical data

Planning and organisation skills

• Able to prioritise, plan, co-ordinate, develop and adjust services
• Able to manage own and others time effectively and to work to deadlines even when under pressure.
• Flexibility to deal with competing demands and interruptions
• Self-motivated, organised, confident, accurate and assertive

Physical skills

• Physical Effort: The post holder will frequently be required to exert light physical effort and may sit for long periods of time using IT equipment or meeting staff.
• Mental Effort: The post holder may experience unpredictable workload with some extremely busy periods with lots of background noise/distractions. Constant concentration is required for accurate work
• ICT skills; Good level of computer literacy and word processing skills. Sound Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills and able to retrieve information from the Internet.
• Evidence of application of Microsoft office suite applications beyond basic utilisation.
• Evidence of business intelligence software knowledge

Other requirements specific to the role

• Well motivated, conscientious and reliable
• Professional, credible, accountable, responsible and confident
• Prepared to work flexible hours over 7 day shifted pattern of work

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “We are here for you” behavioural standards

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

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