Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Personal Qualities
Willingness to undertake flexible work patterns according to service demands. This includes unsocial hours, weekend and bank holiday working
- Personal Qualities
Professional behaviour and credibility
- Personal Qualities
Must have ability to travel between sites
- Essential Qualifications
Professional knowledge acquired through vocational master's degree in pharmacy (4 years)
- Essential Qualifications
1 year pre-registration training
- Essential Qualifications
Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma / MSc or equivalent qualification
- Essential Qualifications
Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Skills, Training and Experience
Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice
- Skills, Training and Experience
Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner including a solid grounding in a broad range of clinical specialties
- Skills, Training and Experience
Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
- Skills, Training and Experience
Experience of delivering projects, improving services and changing practice
- Skills, Training and Experience
Experience undertaking audit, service evaluation and gap analysis
- Skills, Training and Experience
Knowledge of medicines governance agenda, including: investigating errors, identifying risk trends and undertaking corrective actions
- Skills, Training and Experience
Able to appraise evidence and financial data to product written reports, evidence summaries and/or guidelines
- Skills, Training and Experience
Able to present and contribute to meetings and working groups
- Skills, Training and Experience
Good understanding of the current NHS and Pharmacy service within England and the future direction of travel.
Desirable
11 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Essential Qualifications
Qualified Independent Prescriber
- Essential Qualifications
Management Qualification
- Essential Qualifications
Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or appropriate specialist MSc Membership of appropriate professional representative organisations
- Skills, Training and Experience
Evidence line managing and undertaking appraisal and formal HR processes
- Skills, Training and Experience
Understanding of medicines commissioning pathways and external bodies
- Skills, Training and Experience
Appreciation of medicines homecare service infrastructures and processes
- Skills, Training and Experience
Experience of implementing new medicines within the organisation, including an understanding of supply routes
- Skills, Training and Experience
Good knowledge of value-based medicine processes, including formulary and drug use evaluation
- Skills, Training and Experience
Evidence of contribution to the research agenda, including presentation of an abstract locally/externally or publication in a peer reviewed journal
- Skills, Training and Experience
Experience working with clinical trials and knowledge of the regulations relating to them
- Skills, Training and Experience
Experience as a non-medical prescriber working in an outpatient setting
Job overview
Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge as a Medicines Value and Homecare Pharmacist?
This is a fantastic opportunity to combine existing clinical pharmacy skills with improving value-based use of medicines and patient access to novel therapies. The post will be supported in the role through existing regional networks and the established UHNM medicines optimisation and procurement team. The Trust provides a range of specialised services which will present a broad range of exposure and learning. The Pharmacy department has established clinical, aseptic, clinical trials, cancer and digital medicine services to support the post-holder.
You will be required to balance quality and safe care provision whilst achieving financial efficiencies. The post-holder will need to be able to interpret clinical data and evidence to produce reports, implementation plans and engage stakeholders. There will be a requirement to represent UHNM medicines value agenda within local and regional forums.
Main duties of the job
- Supporting the delivery of medicines value and cost improvement agendas within the organisation.
- Governance and assurances relating to high-cost medicines within UHNM.
- Developing key relationships with relevant commissioners, including NHS E and ICB representatives.
- High quality and safe medicines homecare services - ensuring adequate processes, capacity planning and governance.
- Supporting the governance processes relating to the provision of immunoglobulin, including attendance at the North Midlands Sub-Regional Immunoglobulin Panel
- - Main duties of the role:
There will be ward-based commitments associated with this role. These will be agreed upon appointment upon consideration of the applicant’s experience, prescribing qualifications and alignment with the requirement of the post.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details about the role please contact Daniel as detailed below refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – High Cost and Homecare with University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust in Stoke-on-Trent, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Nov 2026.
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