Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – High Cost and Homecare in Stoke-on-Trent

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – High Cost and Homecare

Band 8a

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Average of 37.5 hours/week across a 7-day working rota (with a maximum weekend commitment of 1 in 4) plus On-Call Duty as required by departmentced) Job ref 205-8337294

Site UHNM Town Stoke on Trent Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge as a Medicines Value and Homecare Pharmacist?

This is a fantastic opportunity to combine existing clinical pharmacy skills with improving value-based use of medicines and patient access to novel therapies. The post will be supported in the role through existing regional networks and the established UHNM medicines optimisation and procurement team. The Trust provides a range of specialised services which will present a broad range of exposure and learning. The Pharmacy department has established clinical, aseptic, clinical trials, cancer and digital medicine services to support the post-holder.

You will be required to balance quality and safe care provision whilst achieving financial efficiencies. The post-holder will need to be able to interpret clinical data and evidence to produce reports, implementation plans and engage stakeholders. There will be a requirement to represent UHNM medicines value agenda within local and regional forums.

Main duties of the job

- Main duties of the role:

• Supporting the delivery of medicines value and cost improvement agendas within the organisation.
• Governance and assurances relating to high-cost medicines within UHNM.
• Developing key relationships with relevant commissioners, including NHS E and ICB representatives.
• High quality and safe medicines homecare services - ensuring adequate processes, capacity planning and governance.
• Supporting the governance processes relating to the provision of immunoglobulin, including attendance at the North Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Panel

There will be ward-based commitments associated with this role. These will be agreed upon appointment upon consideration of the applicant’s experience, prescribing qualifications and alignment with the requirement of the post.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co‑created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details about the role please contact Daniel as detailed below refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Essential Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational master's degree in pharmacy (4 years)
• 1 year pre-registration training
• Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma / MSc or equivalent qualification
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Management Qualification
• Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or appropriate specialist MSc Membership of appropriate professional representative organisations

Skills, Training and Experience

• Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice
• Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner including a solid grounding in a broad range of clinical specialties
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
• Experience of delivering projects, improving services and changing practiceExperience undertaking audit, service evaluation and gap analysis
• Knowledge of medicines governance agenda, including: investigating errors, identifying risk trends and undertaking corrective actions
• Able to appraise evidence and financial data to product written reports, evidence summaries and/or guidelines
• Able to present and contribute to meetings and working groups
• Good understanding of the current NHS and Pharmacy service within England and the future direction of travel.
• Evidence line managing and undertaking appraisal and formal HR processes
• Understanding of medicines commissioning pathways and external bodies
• Appreciation of medicines homecare service infrastructures and processes
• Experience of implementing new medicines within the organisation, including an understanding of supply routes
• Good knowledge of value-based medicine processes, including formulary and drug use evaluation
• Evidence of contribution to the research agenda, including presentation of an abstract locally/externally or publication in a peer reviewed journal
• Experience working with clinical trials and knowledge of the regulations relating to them
• Experience as a non-medical prescriber working in an outpatient setting

Personal Qualities

• Willingness to undertake flexible work patterns according to service demands. This includes unsocial hours, weekend and bank holiday working
• Professional behaviour and credibility
• Must have ability to travel between sites

Important information about your application

• All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
• References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
• We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
• Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Daniel Clarke Job title Lead Pharmacist Commissioning and Medicines Value Email address Daniel.Clarke@uhnm.nhs.uk Telephone number 01782 674514

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