Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Child Health
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Would you like to progress your pharmacy career working in a friendly, supportive, forward‑thinking Pharmacy Department?
Have you recently finished your foundation training and found most job satisfaction working every day for babies, children, young people and their families?
Would you like the opportunity to develop your career in hospital, in children’s pharmacy practice?
If yes to these questions, then we want to hear from you! Please get in touch if you would like to find out more.
To be clinical specialist and work with the Paediatric Pharmacy team to provide a comprehensive specialist Pharmacy service to all areas of the Child health directorate. This may include prescribing, support work and developing initiatives. You will work closely within the Child health MDT and the Paediatric Pharmacy team.
Additional Responsibilities Within Clinical Areas As Specified Below
* Providing a Clinical and Specialist Pharmacist role
* Managing (planning, organising, monitoring, controlling, developing staff etc)
* Service development
* Other duties/functions
We have a very strong team ethos with good support from your peers and the senior colleagues within and outside who support learning and development of skills. You will work closely with the full MDT alongside medicines management technicians who complement your focus on the clinical aspect of patient care. We are in the process of implementing electronic prescribing and medicines administration on our children’s inpatient wards (January 2026) so your fresh eyes will be crucial in helping develop the right solution.
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Pilling Job title: Advanced Pharmacist, Paediatrics Email address: sarah.pilling@nhs.net Telephone number: 07926077672
or Pharmacy Office ngh-tr.pharmacyoffice@nhs.net or 01604 545692
Please get in touch for an informal chat or to arrange a visit
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full‑time
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* Health Care Provider
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Northampton, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago
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