Job overview
We’re seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist to join our Paediatric Team, to support the delivery of clinical pharmacy services across our paediatric wards and departments.
You’ll work closely with our multidisciplinary teams and with pharmacy colleagues, benefiting from extensive training, development, research, and networking opportunities. You’ll also train and support the development of band 6 and band 7 pharmacists completing rotations in paediatrics.
This is an exciting time to our Paediatric Team. Our new organisation structure is working effectively to deliver high quality care, and we have recently appointed a new, very experienced, Advanced Clinical Lead (8b) Pharmacist to lead our services to Women & Children.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has proven experience in delivering high quality care
- Can support team development
- Is enthusiastic about improving the care of paediatric patients
Main duties of the job
Utilise expert pharmaceutical knowledge to manage paediatric patients
- Utilise the independent prescriber skill daily within your scope of practice (or work towards obtaining).
- Provide prescriber support for complex medicine regimes
- Support flow with efficient discharge medication supply routes in and out of hours.
- Review adverse incident reports and educate medical and nursing teams on pharmaceutical issues to lessen risk
- Review and develop guidelines and PGDs. Develop cost improvement initiatives.
- Train, develop and line manage band 6, band 7 and trainee pharmacists.
Please see attached job description and personal specification for further information.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details about this role please see the attached job description and person specification.
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This advert is for Advanced Specialist Pharmacist- Paediatrics with University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust in Stoke On Trent, Midlands, 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 18 Jun 2026.
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