This clinical pharmacist post sits in the Pharmacy department at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust and combines clinical practice with medicines value work. The role centres on cost improvement and governance for high-cost medicines, the homecare medicines service, and immunoglobulin panel work across the North Midlands. It carries ward-based commitments and requires flexible working including unsocial hours, weekends and bank holidays, with travel between the two sites. Fit depends on GPhC registration and substantial UK hospital pharmacy experience.
What the job involves
- Supporting delivery of medicines value and cost improvement agendas within the organisation
- Governance and assurance for high-cost medicines
- Developing relationships with commissioners, including NHS England and ICB representatives
- Ensuring safe, high-quality homecare medicines services, including processes, capacity planning and governance
- Supporting governance of immunoglobulin provision, including attending the North Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Panel
- Ward-based clinical commitments, agreed on appointment
- Balancing quality and safe care with financial efficiencies
- Interpreting clinical data and evidence to produce reports and implementation plans
- Engaging stakeholders across the Trust and wider system
- Representing the Trust's medicines value agenda in local and regional forums
Qualifications
- Vocational master's degree in pharmacy (four years)
- One year pre-registration training
- Postgraduate clinical pharmacy diploma, MSc or equivalent
Registration & licences
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
- Substantial post-registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice
- Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner across a broad range of specialties
- Delivering projects, improving services and changing practice
- Audit, service evaluation and gap analysis
Skills & knowledge
- Appraising evidence and financial data to produce written reports, evidence summaries or guidelines
- Presenting and contributing to meetings and working groups
- Understanding of the current NHS and pharmacy service in England and its future direction
- Knowledge of medicines governance, including investigating errors, identifying risk trends and corrective actions
Other
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Willingness to work flexible patterns, including unsocial hours, weekends and bank holidays
- Professional behaviour and credibility
- Ability to travel between sites
Nice to have
- Qualified Independent Prescriber
- Management qualification
- Experience of line management and formal HR processes
- Understanding of medicines commissioning pathways and external bodies
- Knowledge of medicines homecare service infrastructure and processes
- Experience of implementing new medicines, including supply routes
- Knowledge of value-based medicine processes, including formulary and drug use evaluation
- Research contribution through an abstract or peer-reviewed publication, and clinical trials experience with knowledge of the regulations
What’s offered
- Development packages aimed at fulfilling potential
- Broad exposure and learning across the Trust's specialised services
- Support through regional networks and the medicines optimisation and procurement team
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