High Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Women's Health
The closing date is 07 May 2026
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you want to lead and develop a specialist service that delivers high-quality, cost-effective and safe care?
We are offering a temporary opportunity to join Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Hospitals as our Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Women's Health.
New hospital, The role is ideal for a pharmacist seeking to further develop:
* leadership capability
* operational and service-management skills
* specialist clinical knowledge in women's health
You will step into a well-established post within the Women's Health multidisciplinary team. The role covers:
* Maternity and gynaecology wards
* General women's health admissions
* Support to outpatient services
* Close working with the Assisted Conception Unit at Wrightington
You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Children's Health and receive support from the Principal Pharmacist for Surgery. Key responsibilities include:
* Safe and effective medicines management and optimisation
* Leading and supporting service improvements
* Contributing to cost‑improvement initiatives
* Overseeing medicines governance for Women's Health
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term basis as it has been established to provide cover for maternity leave and will after a period of 12 months or when the substantive postholder returns.
Whilst this post is advertised on a fixed term basis there is the potential that this post may become permanent in the future.
Main duties of the job
You will take part in consultant‑led ward rounds, ensuring safe and optimal pharmaceutical care from admission to discharge. You will work directly with patients and carers to understand their needs, supporting adherence to medication regimens.
Our aim is to provide you with the skills you need to identify and reach your professional destination, whether this is as a manager, a clinical expert, or your own hybrid of both.
Away from the clinical arena, you will gain valuable managerial skills, producing and reviewing guidelines and PGDs, undertaking and presenting audits, and helping to balance medicines expenditure.
You will also have the opportunity to develop your skills as an educator, teaching and training other healthcare professionals from student level upwards.
This is a rapidly expanding area in the Trust, where the sky is the limit.
As part of the team in our busy District General Hospital, you will have the opportunity to maintain your skills in other clinical areas with occasional cover sessions and on-call, and will work closely with the Children's Health lead to ensure seamless service provision.
The post includes participation in the late duty, weekend, bank holiday and on‑call (EDC) rotas.
Job responsibilities
* Deliver highly specialist clinical pharmacist services to your area of responsibility within the Trust including directorate level support such as horizon scanning, cost benefit analysis, ensuring PGDs/Shared Care Protocols are appropriate and assurance reporting is provided to the Division.
* To be a non medical prescriber.
* Working in partnership with other professionals and partners, to reduce the number and severity of medicines related adverse events by identifying and implementing new systems of work.
* Thematically review existing medication practices, incident reporting and other intelligence to support safer medication practices within specialist area.
* Investigate serious errors related to the use of medicines and report findings to manager.
* Develop, implement and audit unit wide policies, procedures and guidelines related to medication prescribing, supply, administration or disposal. Publish findings and undertake pharmacy practice research.
* Ensure compliance with medicines management guidance issued by the Trust, GMMMG or national bodies.
* Ensure compliance with Medicines Law and CQC requirements.
* Provide support for specialist areas, such as Womens Health.
* Provide education to medical and nursing staff in relation to women's health. This would include participating in paediatric medical staff induction on a 4 monthly basis.
* Write or update any Women Health guidelines, monographs and PGDs when appropriate.
* Participate in investigation of any Datix relating to Womens or maternity medications. This would include taking any remedial action prompted by such investigation.
* Attendance on ward during the morning ward round to answer any medication related queries, provide a clinical check of prescribed medications and facilitate prompt discharge where possible.
* Ensuring medications provided to patient are licensed preparations where possible and are appropriate in terms of, for example, formulation and excipient content.
* Horizon scanning on matters paediatric. For example, new products or new guidance, for example, NICE, RCPCH, GMMMG.
* Provide a point of reference for community patients. This may include ensuring up to date prescriptions for some items not available/prescribable in the community.
* Provide a point of reference for medical and nursing staff for any pharmacy queries.
* Ensure local medicines management policies adhered to. This would include monthly CD audits.
* Review of ward stocks together with medicines management technicians.
* Facilitate Blueteq authorisation for high cost medications.
* Senior Specialist pharmacists, provide directorate support to the Surgical Specialties.
Person Specification
Knowledge
* Broad academic/theoretical knowledge to support all of the required experience.
* Knowledge of NHS National policy & key changes / challenges in the NHS.
* Understanding of Trust Values & Strategy.
Skills
* Innovative clinical pharmacy practice using analytical/problem solving skills in complex situations.
* Able to assertively/enthusiastically lead, engage, motivate and inspire staff within and outside of pharmacy team.
* Ability to manage time, prioritising tasks to meet deadlines.
* Human Resource Management.
* Highly effective interpersonal & communication skills.
* Able to assess & manipulate a broad range of information quickly & accurately.
* Able to make effective judgements based on limited information.
* Computer Skills.
Experience
* Extensive clinical pharmacy experience and service delivery working as part of MDT at a minimum of band 7 / Specialist Level.
* Recent experience of governance and assurance at departmental level.
* Recent experience of assisting a successful senior pharmacy team to achieve objectives.
* Recent experience of successfully delivering change.
* Clinical mentoring or pre‑registration tutor.
* Lead projects / audit in co‑operation with others.
* Experience of audit and reporting.
* Experience of training and education.
* Experience of Drug Budget Control & Monitoring.
Qualifications
* Master's degree in pharmacy plus successful completion of pre‑registration training year (or earlier equivalent).
* Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
* Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Evidence of CPD in line with GPhC requirements.
* Prescribing Qualification.
Additional
* Enthusiasm for the post & for pharmacy.
* Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation.
* Professional credibility with all levels of staff.
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.
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