Job summary
Expected Shortlisting Date: 27/10/2025
Planned Interview Date: 06/11/2025
The paediatric pharmacy team at Leeds Children's Hospital have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, friendly, and forward-thinking service as a Band 6 Pharmacist.
Paediatric pharmacy is one of the most rewarding and dynamic areas of practice. No two days are the same: you may be calculating and preparing highly individualised doses for a premature baby in neonatal intensive care, supporting complex treatment plans for children with long-term conditions, or working with families to ensure medicines are used safely at home. It's a specialty that demands problem-solving, adaptability and creativity, as many medicines are unlicensed in children and require thoughtful, individualised solutions. Working in paediatrics offers the chance to be part of a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team where your expertise directly improves outcomes for some of our most vulnerable patients, and where you can see the positive impact of your input on a child's health and future.
Main duties of the job
* Deliver high-quality clinical pharmacy services directly to patients and multidisciplinary teams.
* Gain exposure to a variety paediatric specialties with the support of experienced senior pharmacists.
* Contribute to medicines optimisation, safe prescribing and discharge planning
* Build on your clinical knowledge of medicines optimisation within the interesting role of paediatric pharmacy
* As part of your development, you will be trained and supported to take on more specialist responsibilities, including contributing to the children's warfarin clinic and becoming aseptically competent.
About us
Based within Leeds General Infirmary, in the centre of Leeds, the Leeds Children's Hospital is one of the largest children's hospitals in the UK and treats patients from across Yorkshire and the North of England as a secondary and tertiary referral centre.
The pharmacy department at Leeds is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. Our vision is making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines and we are continually innovating to improve our services for patients and staff.
Job details
Job Title: Non-resident rotational pharmacist
Reports to: Residency and Rotational Manager
Band: 6
Unit/Department: MMPS
Location: Trustwide
Person Specification
Qualifications:
* Masters Degree in Pharmacy
* Registrant of GPhC
Other Criteria:
* Communication written and verbal to patients
* Good time management
* Good problem solver
Experience:
* Minimum 6 month hospital pre-registration or 1 year post qualified in community pharmacy in the UK
Skills and Behaviours:
* Knowledge of hospital pharmacy practice
* Ability to interpret and deliver medicines information
* Team player
* Motivated and enthusiastic
Additional information
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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