Lead Pharmacist for Integrated Urgent and Emergency Care
Hywel Dda UHB will appoint a 22.5 hour Lead Pharmacist to provide professional leadership, clinical oversight, and operational management of the Clinical Streaming Hub Pharmacist role(s). The Lead Pharmacist will provide strategic, clinical, and professional leadership for pharmacy input into the Clinical Streaming Hub, ensuring safe, effective, and consistent medicines optimisation within urgent care streaming.
Responsibilities
- Manage and support the Band 8a Clinical Streaming Hub Pharmacist(s)
- Ensure pharmacy contribution aligns with UEC, frailty, and community-based care priorities
- Provide senior clinical expertise and professional governance
- Lead development, evaluation, and sustainability of the pharmacy streaming model
- Provide senior pharmacy leadership within the Clinical Streaming Hubs, acting as the responsible professional lead for Hub pharmacists
- Ensure safe, consistent, evidence-based medicines optimisation and provide expert advice on complex medicines-related streaming decisions
- Line manage, appraise, and supervise Band 8a pharmacists, supporting professional development, advanced practice progression, and competency assurance
- Ensure safe, sustainable clinical cover and foster a high-performing pharmacy workforce
- Lead development and review of SOPs, pathways, and protocols for pharmacy streaming, ensuring compliance with GPhC standards, NHS Wales policy, and Hywel Dda governance frameworks
- Contribute to clinical risk management, incident review, audit, service evaluation, and QI
- Act as senior pharmacy link between the Clinical Streaming Hub and primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and frailty/community response services
- Lead education and mentorship for pharmacy staff, supporting non-pharmacy clinicians with medicines and frailty-related education
- Contribute to development of advanced practice roles and provide senior pharmacy input to service planning, escalation, and transformation
- Support operational resilience during high demand or service change
- Accountable to the Director of Pharmacy/Hywel Dda pharmacy leadership, aligned operationally with Clinical Streaming Hub and UEC structures, with line management responsibility for pharmacist(s)
Qualifications and Experience
- Master's degree in Pharmacy
- Registered pharmacist with GPhC
- Postgraduate Diploma qualification in pharmacy related area or equivalent experience
- Up to date clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge
- Sound knowledge of prescribing, pharmacy and medicines management issues faced in primary and secondary care
- Understanding of the NHS and political environment
- Membership of specialist body e.g. UKCPA, RPS
- Teaching experience to train pharmacy staff, and other health care professionals; accredited designated supervisor for foundation and post-foundation pharmacists
- Experience of working in Secondary Care and/or Primary Care in a multidisciplinary environment
- Experience of training and mentoring
- Experience of being an accredited designated supervisor for foundation and post-foundation pharmacists
- Experience of audit / service improvement techniques
- Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
- Experience of managing a patient cohort with the responsibility for the delivery of medications through prescribing, and the further responsibility for the ongoing management plan
- Extensive and substantive experience practicing as a non-medical prescriber, having developed a wide or highly specialist scope of practice
- Previous experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary/multiagency work
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Salary
£67,583 to £78,530 a year pro rata
