Band 8a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Out of Hospital Services
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 02 November 2025
Are you ready to shape the future of pharmacy outside hospital walls? Join our dynamic Out of Hospital Services Pharmacy team at UHB, where we’re leading the shift in care delivery from hospitals to community settings. You’ll play a key role in ensuring safe, effective and person-centred medicines optimisation across services such as intermediate care, virtual wards, district nursing and community clinics.
You’ll work alongside three specialist pharmacists and a specialist pharmacy technician, supported by a culture that values professional growth, innovation and collaboration. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist with a passion for improving medicines use in older people, particularly managing polypharmacy, deprescribing and multidisciplinary care.
We invest heavily in our people -- offering access to independent prescribing, RPS credentialing, research internships, leadership programmes and more. You’ll also benefit from flexible working, wellbeing initiatives, and access to NHS and local discounts. If you want to make a tangible difference to patient care while developing your clinical expertise and leadership, this is the perfect role for you.
Main duties of the job
This is a highly clinical role for a pharmacist who thrives on multidisciplinary teamwork and complex patient care. You will provide expert medicines optimisation across intermediate care facilities, falls and virtual ward services, district nursing teams and community-based clinics.
Your daily practice will include:
* Delivering direct patient-facing pharmacy input for bedded intermediate care patients.
* Attending MDT meetings, ward rounds and clinical reviews.
* Providing expert medicines advice, governance, and education to the wider team.
* Supporting development of local protocols, pathways, audits and service improvements.
* Contributing to the design of safe, efficient prescribing systems and community pathways.
You will act as a clinical leader, representing pharmacy within the Out of Hospital Services CDG, ensuring medicines management and optimisation are embedded in service design and delivery.
We are seeking a proactive, adaptable pharmacist with advanced clinical reasoning, strong communication skills and a passion for supporting older people to achieve better outcomes from their medicines.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description.
Qualifications
* MPharm degree or equivalent.
* Clinical diploma (or equivalent qualification / experience) or higher Pharmacy degree.
* Qualified as an independent non-medical prescribed or a willingness to undertake the qualification.
* GPhC registration.
* Membership of the RPS.
Experience
* Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in complex clinical pharmacy settings.
* Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team.
* Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care.
* Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients.
* Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
* Experience in older people services.
* Experience of managing medicines expenditure for a specialty and understanding of budgetary mechanism.
Additional Criteria
* Good interpersonal skills.
* Good oral, written communication & presentation skills.
* Demonstrates problem solving skills.
* Demonstrates empathy towards patients and carers.
* Able to work under pressure, prioritise work and meet deadlines.
* Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes.
* Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary.
* Demonstrates teaching/mentoring skills & ability to motivate other staff.
* Able to interact with clinical and managerial staff.
* Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills.
* Well-motivated and reliable.
* Able to work with all grades and staff roles.
* Capacity to work calmly under pressure.
* Ability to travel across all Trust sites and sites covered by the Out-of-Hospital services across Solihull as required by the job role.
* Good use of Microsoft office applications including Excel and PowerPoint.
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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