Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Queens Medical Centre
Town Nottingham
Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly
Closing 14/09/2025 23:59
Band 8a
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join the pharmacy team as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB), covering the absence of the permanent staff member whilst they go on maternity leave.
You will lead the pharmacy service provision to hepato-pancreato-biliary patients at NUH. The Nottingham HPB Service is both a local and regional tertiary referral centre for all aspects of HPB disease and we are a centre of excellence for laparoscopic (keyhole) HPB surgery.
The job will be based at Queens Medical Centre where you will work as part of the MDT providing high quality medicines reconciliation and pharmaceutical knowledge. The post holder will work with the other members of the MDT to perform medicines optimisation, including deprescribing and prevention of harm from inappropriate polypharmacy. You would also be involved in improving prescribing and reducing risks within the wider healthcare team in your given area.
In addition the post holder will also work within the wider pharmacy surgical team, receiving and giving support to the other team members and trainees.
Main duties of the job
For full duties please refer to the attached job description. Key duties are:
1. To partake in specialist clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken specifically
2. Leadership, management and directorate/service support roles
3. To line manage and support more junior pharmacists in the listed directorates
4. To take full part in the 7-day shifted rota and bank holidays duties
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification.
1. To partake in specialist clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken specifically
2. a. To lead, deliver and develop clinical pharmacy services to the gastroenterology speciality within NUH. To implement medicines management policies and ensure the safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines in this service/speciality in accordance with national priorities and local objectives.
3. b. To provide patients and members of the multidisciplinary team with information about new drugs and developments to facilitate their safe and effective use.
4. c. To provide a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient ward areas
5. 2) Leadership, management and directorate/service support roles
6. 3) To line manage and support more junior pharmacists in the listed directorates
7. 4) To take full part in the 7-day shifted rota and bank holidays duties
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
* B.Pharm/ BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm
* GPhC registered
* Clinical diploma or equivalent
* Independent prescriber
* Evidence of CPD undertaken
Experience
* Extensive hospital pharmacy experience (post registration)
* Broad knowledge base of wide clinical areas
* Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy service and advice relating to the safe use of medicines
* Experience of leadership and management skills
* Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service related policies for a specialty
* Experience of project management, with evidence of completed outcomes
* Experience in undertaking, supervising and reporting/presenting audit / research work at local (Trust) level
* Experience of leading and delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a specialty
* Experience of line management
Communication and relationship skills
* Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, both verbal and written
* Empathy with patients, relatives and pharmacy customers
* Confident and assertive; able to defend opinions in a constructive manner when challenged
* Experience of multidisciplinary team working at Pharmacy, Trust and regional level
* Experience of training and education of both pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
Analytical and Judgment skills
* Experience of assessing and minimising risk associated with service provision and within medication processes
* Ability to work alone and make decisions within agreed parameters and appropriate referral / escalation as necessary
* Experience in making judgements involving highly complex facts, which require analysis, interpretation and options appraisal
* Ability to maintain and monitor database of medicines and activity related information e.g. medicines expenditure and usage; rotas etc
* Able to critically analyse information and evidence and to communicate the findings clearly in simple terms
Planning and Organisation Skills
* Ability to plan and organise existing and new clinical pharmacy services to a specialty. This may include creation and adjustment of plans based on research
* Ability to be flexible and manage change in a complex and changing healthcare environment
* Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills, able to motivate others, to manage time effectively and work to deadlines, even when under pressure
* Positive thinker, problem solver, ability to think laterally to develop new ideas
Physical skills
* Good level of computer literacy and word processing /keyboard skills.
* Sound MS Teams, Word, Excel and Power- point skills and be able to retrieve information from the internet.
* High level IT skills (eg website or database design)
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
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Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
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Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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