Band 7 Senior Support Pharmacist - Healthcare of Older People

Job summary

Are you an early-career pharmacist ready to take your next step in a supportive, specialist environment?

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust -- one of the UK's leading NHS Trusts -- is recruiting a Senior Support Pharmacist for Healthcare of Older People based at Good Hope Hospital.

This role will enable you to build your clinical expertise and leadership skills within a forward-thinking pharmacy team. You will deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services on the wards, develop your mentoring and leadership skills, contribute to education and training programmes, and supervise junior and trainee pharmacists -- all with strong support around you.

You will have access to post-graduate clinical pharmacy training and support to undertake or complete non-medical prescribing, with protected learning time built into your working week.

The role is open to pharmacists who have completed a minimum of 2--3 early-career rotations and have started, or are working towards, a clinical diploma or the RPS Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway. Applicants with 12 months' post-registration hospital experience may be appointed under Annex 21 (75% of Band 7 maximum), progressing to full Band 7 on meeting the relevant milestone.

Come and grow with a team that values your development, your wellbeing, and your ambition.

Main duties of the job

Join a well-established, friendly pharmacy team at Good Hope Hospital, where you'll be supported to grow clinically and professionally from day one.

You will provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to Healthcare of Older People wards, working with a complex and rewarding patient group. The role sits within a strong MDT, with well-developed links across frailty and other specialties -- giving you broad clinical exposure and the chance to make a real difference to patient outcomes.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include prescription screening, medicines reconciliation, therapeutic drug monitoring, and contributing to audit, research, and service development. The team contributes to regional initiatives and reports to the Medicines Management Advisory Group, improving quality of care across the interface.

You will take on meaningful leadership from early on -- supervising junior and trainee pharmacists and contributing to education and training for pharmacy, nursing, and medical colleagues.

We actively encourage ongoing development and research. You'll have protected learning time built into your working week, support to complete your clinical diploma/NQPP and independent prescribing qualification, and access to excellent trust-wide wellbeing initiatives and staff networks.

Good Hope is well connected by public transport and within easy reach of central Birmingham. If you're looking for a role where you'll be stretched, supported, and genuinely valued -- this is it.

Job responsibilities

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.