Overview
In this role you will lead a high-quality clinical pharmacy service for General Medicine within a busy NHS setting. You will act as the senior pharmacist for the specialty, line-manage a small team, and drive service design and quality improvement. You’ll ensure safe medicines optimisation for complex acute patients while maintaining staff wellbeing under pressure. This is a chance to shape medicines governance and contribute to trust-wide priorities in a high-output hospital. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful clinical outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a safe, patient-centred clinical pharmacy service for General Medicine
- Act as named senior pharmacist for the specialty
- Provide day-to-day leadership and line management for the clinical pharmacy team
- Collaborate to implement strategic objectives, workforce plans, service redesign and quality improvement
- Oversee operational and clinical leadership of the General Medicine pharmacy team
- Ensure delivery and ongoing development of the General Medicine clinical pharmacy service
- Drive medicines optimisation for complex acute medical patients
- Maintain staff wellbeing and resilience under high workload
- Align service development with Trust priorities, CQC standards, and national guidance
- Aim for measurable improvements in medicines safety, clinical outcomes and financial stewardship
Key requirements
- Experience leading or supervising pharmacists in a clinical setting
- Operational management experience (workload prioritisation, rota planning, service coordination)
- Proven performance management and staff development experience
- Ability to lead in high-pressure, high-workload environments
- Advanced knowledge of acute medical therapeutics
- Excellent clinical reasoning and decision-making
- Strong organisational, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills
- Ability to analyse risk and escalate appropriately
- Credibility and autonomy in professional practice
- Experience with clinical information systems and data for service improvement (desirable)
- Experience supporting research or evaluation (desirable)
- Experience leading or contributing to service development or quality improvement projects
- Experience with audit, service evaluation or QI with impact on patient care
- Experience developing or reviewing guidelines, SOPs or pathways
- Understanding of medicines governance and patient safety frameworks
- CPD ongoing and willingness to contribute to education (essential)
- UK registration with GPhC and relevant degree (essential)
- Significant post-registration hospital experience in General Medicine or acute specialties (essential)
- Excellent communication (written and verbal)
- Influencing senior clinicians
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Advanced acute medical therapeutics knowledge
- Clinical reasoning and decision-making
- Risk analysis and escalation
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist General Medicine in Cosham employer: National Health Service
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and collaborative work environment for healthcare professionals in North Wales. With a commitment to employee development and a focus on compassionate care, staff have access to continuous professional development opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact in both acute and community paediatrics. The Health Board's integrated approach ensures that employees are part of a dynamic team dedicated to improving health outcomes for the local population.
