Job Summary
Expected Shortlisting Date: 18/11/2025
Planned Interview Date: 26/11/2025
Are you an exceptional clinical pharmacist ready for a new challenge? Our pharmacy team needs capable and enthusiastic individuals with the right values to be a key part of our dynamic teams in the following areas: Hepatology (including liver transplant); Renal Medicine/Transplantation; Surgical specialties including Acute Surgery, Upper GI/Pancreas; Surgical Oncology, and Urology. The posts comprise a continuous, one year clinical rotational programme, designed to steer you through the Advanced Level Framework.
You will have clinical pharmacy experience and a diploma. If you are not already a prescriber, we would support you to gain this qualification.
Post holders will provide medicines optimisation services to patients whilst integrating into the multidisciplinary team day-to-day. As part of our support to Abdominal Medicine & Surgery CSU we also provide clinical pharmacy services to Gastroenterology and Colorectal Surgery. We also offer experience in anticoagulation clinics, including warfarin bridging, and Aseptic dispensing in our busy Aseptic & Production Unit.
The way in which our team works supports close working with specialty teams and ward round attendance to make a difference to patient care through MDT working.
Main Duties of the Job
Pharmacy Services at LTHT is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. The CSU responsibilities span the provision and use of medicines across all patient pathways.
You will receive support to develop from our advanced clinical pharmacists, and appropriate training. You will offer ideas and collaborate to improve patient care and experience, and will be a key part of the implementation of service developments.
Your role will include supervising rotational junior pharmacists and supporting pharmacy technicians in their emerging clinical roles.
We are a modern and diverse service, well embedded in multi-disciplinary teams. Our focus is holistic, ensuring that our patients receive the right treatment, at the right time and place. We enable recovery from illness, and help give patients the confidence to get home safely, and sooner, and retain their independence.
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 Responsibilities
* Provide specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within each rotation, as part of a team of pharmacists working in that speciality being professionally accountable for their actions.
* Provide drug‑related advice and information to patients, consultants and other health‑care professionals within a Clinical Management Team.
* Monitor the clinical use of drugs in patients.
* Advising medical and nursing staff how to optimise drug therapy.
* Reporting prescribing and administration near misses, and risk management issues.
* Provide education to healthcare professionals within the speciality.
* Participate in the training of junior pharmacy staff within the speciality.
* Support the Lead Pharmacist for the area with the production and implementation of drug‑related policies and procedures, with the production of financial reports and with horizon scanning activities.
* Participate in operational service commitments to dispensaries, Medicines Information and aseptic services.
* The post holder will be required to work evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays on a rotational basis and participate in the on‑call from home pharmacists rota.
Person Specification
Additional Requirements
* Ability to walk moderate distances to wards
Skills & Behaviours
* Awareness of own limitations and when to refer to others for advice
* Dispensing and checking skills ability to follow procedures and accurately supply medication.
* Team player with ability to work flexibly
* Motivated worker - able to work alone and under pressure
* Lateral thinker
Qualifications
* Masters qualification in Pharmacy, or equivalent qualification, plus completion of pre‑registration training.
* Pharmacist Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience or qualification
* Member of a relevant Professional Development Body e.g. RPSGB, BOPA, NPPG
Desirable Qualifications
* Non‑Medical Prescriber
Experience
* Moderate or significant post registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
* The ability to interpret information and provide advice.
* Knowledge of hospital pharmacy practice.
* Legal requirements of handling medicines.
* Broad clinical pharmacy knowledge.
Desirable Experience
* Experience of Aseptic dispensing.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer Details
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Employer's Website
https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/
Job Details
Date posted: 24 October 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: C9298-MMP-446
Job Location
St. James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF
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