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Are you passionate about improving outcomes for babies, women and families?
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an ambitious and compassionate pharmacist to join our Women's and Children's Pharmacy Team as a Specialist Pharmacist for Neonates and Women's Services.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop specialist practice within one of the UK's largest maternity and neonatal services within a leading NHS teaching trust. With a primary focus on neonatal care, you will support a diverse and complex service, including our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), caring for premature and critically unwell babies requiring highly specialised medicines optimisation and multidisciplinary care.
Working alongside expert neonatologists, neonatal nurses, advanced practitioners and pharmacy colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines for some of the most vulnerable patients in the NHS. From supporting extremely premature infants requiring intensive care to optimising medicines use across the neonatal pathway, you will help improve outcomes from the very start of life.
You will influence neonatal medicines optimisation, lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, contribute to education and workforce development, and support research and innovation. This is an exceptional opportunity to develop specialist clinical expertise while making a lasting impact on babies, women and families.
Main duties of the job
This is a cross-site role based at Heartlands Hospital, delivering specialist clinical pharmacy services across neonatal and women's services within University Hospitals Birmingham.
You will deliver specialist pharmaceutical care for neonatal patients while contributing to the wider women's health agenda. Working across a range of clinical settings, you will contribute to multidisciplinary decision-making (ward rounds), manage complex medicines-related issues and provide specialist advice on the use of high-risk medicines and advanced therapies.
You will lead medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety and clinical governance activities, ensuring practice aligns with national standards, emerging evidence and organisational priorities. The postholder will critically appraise evidence, implement service improvements and evaluate their impact on patient care and outcomes.
A key aspect of the role is service development. You will identify opportunities to improve clinical pathways, lead quality improvement initiatives and contribute to innovative pharmacy services. You will also undertake audit, service evaluation and research activities, helping translate evidence into practice.
As a specialist pharmacist within Women's and Children's Services, you will contribute to the education, supervision and development of pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other healthcare professionals, helping to build capability across the wider workforce.
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.
Details
- Date posted: 20 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: 304-9018625
- Job locations: Trustwide, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
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Person specification
Experience
Essential
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in complex clinical pharmacy settings.
- *Previous participation in a multi-disciplinary team.
- *Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care.
- *Experience of teaching and presenting to other healthcare professionals or patients.
- *Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Desirable
- *Experience in Paediatrics and Neonate services.
Qualifications
Essential
- *Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent).
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- *Has completed a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent advanced practice.
- *Willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- *Has completed a non-medical prescribing course and registered as an NMP with the GPhC.
- *Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Team worker.
- *Good interpersonal skills.
- *Good oral, written communication and presentation skills.
- *Good computer 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 and mentoring skills and ability to motivate other staff.
- *Able to interact with clinical and managerial staff.
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills.
- *Able to demonstrate a professional approach.
- *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 as required by job role.
Desirable
- *Good use of Microsoft Office applications including Excel and PowerPoint.
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This advert is for Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist - Neonates and Women's with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in Trustwide, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH, United Kingdom, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57528.00 to £64750.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Sep 2026.
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