Highly Specialist Pharmacist, Cardiology in Wigan

Employer: NHS Jobs

Location: Wigan, WN1 2NN

Pay: £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 02/05/2026

About this job

• Deliver highly specialist clinical pharmacist services to your area of responsibility within the Trust including directorate level support such as horizon scanning, cost benefit analysis, ensuring PGDs / Shared Care Protocols are appropriate and assurance reporting is provided to the Division.
• To be a non-medical prescriber. Utilise within clinical competency.
• Work in partnership with other professionals and partners to reduce the number and severity of medicines related adverse events by identifying and implementing new systems of work.
• Thematically review existing medication practices, incident reporting and other intelligence to support safer medication practices within specialist area.
• Investigate serious errors related to the use of medicines and report findings to manager.
• Develop, implement and audit unit wide policies, procedures and guidelines related to medication prescribing, supply, administration or disposal.
• Publish findings and undertake pharmacy practice research.
• Ensure compliance with medicines management guidance issued by the Trust, GMMMG or national bodies.
• Compile departmental and divisional reports as requested by the directorate, principal pharmacist and senior management team.
• Develop and implement both cost improvement projects and quality improvement projects.
• Train pharmacy and MDT colleagues on highly specialist cardiology pharmaceutical issues.
• Ensure compliance with Medicines Law and CQC requirements.

Planning and Organisational Duties

• As part of the Clinical Pharmacy Team, be responsible for the provision of Clinical Pharmacy Services to patients, including leading the pharmacy clinical team in your area.
• Have a commitment to dispensaries and deliver the highest possible professional standards therein.
• In absence of a more senior Pharmacist, take professional responsibility for the dispensary including supervision of technicians, assistants and pre-registration pharmacists.
• Prioritise patients according to their clinical and pharmaceutical need.
• Use clinical tests and patient notes to advise clinicians about required changes to patient medication and alternatives that may be suggested if the normal route of administration is unavailable.
• Analyse medicine charts taking into account the clinical presentation of the patient, any relevant history and plans made by clinicians.
• Make appropriate endorsements in line with relevant standards.
• Ensure VTE compliance has been undertaken where appropriate.
• Ensure antimicrobials are prescribed in line with current trust guidance.
• In conjunction with the medicines management technicians, ensure patient specific medicines are ordered.
• Ensure the effective re-use of patients own drugs. If deemed unfit for re-use, destroy medicines ensuring relevant procedures are followed.
• Receive, interpret, clinically check, dispense, accuracy check and handout prescriptions in line with departmental standard operating procedures.
• Ensure pharmacy stock is controlled effectively.
• Assist in the ordering, issuing and receiving of medication when necessary.
• Participate in clinical trials ensuring relevant details are maintained in trials documentation.
• Ensure ward Controlled Drugs and other departmental audits are completed to the prescribed schedule.
• Horizon scanning. Service adjustments and change management in collaboration with pharmacy colleagues.
• Drug budget monitoring.

Communications and Key Working Relationships

• Using professional judgement and in a professional manner, communicate to patients, carers and healthcare staff any appropriate information about medicines which make their use safer or more effective.
• Supervise, support, train and line manage pharmacy colleagues.
• Assist other health professionals on wards to deliver the highest standards of care.
• Liaise with other members of the pharmacy team to ensure clinically effective services are provided.
• Refer to more senior pharmacists in team when appropriate.
• Provide ward cover for other clinical teams or for more senior colleagues within the team.
• Develop effective working relationships with other healthcare professionals within area of responsibility.
• Deputise for principal pharmacists and senior management team as required.
• Lead on weekends and late nights as required.