Clinical Pharmacist - Governance and Compliance Specialist

Job overview

This is a pivotal role for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist who wants to make a measurable difference to medicines safety, governance and patient care across out-of-hours and dental services. You will lead a focused review of medicines management arrangements, assessing how medicines are prescribed, supplied, stored, administered, reconciled, disposed of and escalated across the services. Working closely with the Lead Pharmacist and clinical, operational and governance colleagues, you will identify compliance gaps, patient-safety risks and opportunities to strengthen practice. Your specialist insight will directly inform improvements to clinical governance, medicines optimisation and assurance arrangements.

This is an opportunity to use your pharmacy expertise at a strategic level: reviewing high-risk medicines, controlled drugs, antimicrobial stewardship and emergency medicines; analysing incidents and audit findings; and translating evidence into clear, prioritised recommendations. You will produce a robust current-state assessment, risk and gap analysis, improvement plan and final report, helping shape safer, more consistent and more effective medicines management for patients

Main duties of the job

• Map and review end-to-end medicines management processes across out-of-hours and dental services, including prescribing, supply, storage, administration, reconciliation, disposal and escalation.
• Assess arrangements against legislation, regulatory and professional standards, licence conditions, organisational policies and governance requirements, identifying compliance gaps and good practice.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls and procedures, identifying patient-safety risks, unwarranted variation, duplication and opportunities to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Review the safe management of high-risk medicines, controlled drugs, emergency medicines and cold-chain products, escalating immediate safety or significant compliance concerns through appropriate governance routes.
• Assess prescribing quality, antimicrobial stewardship, medicines optimisation and access to pharmacy advice, identifying opportunities to strengthen safe and effective practice.
• Review incidents, near misses, complaints, audits, policies, documentation and training arrangements to identify systemic risks, recurring themes and areas requiring improvement.
• Engage with the Lead Pharmacist, clinicians, operational teams and partners; produce a documented risk and gap analysis, prioritised recommendations, improvement plan, audit criteria and a final report for relevant governance forums.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a hybrid role which requires travel and presence at different sites across HUC network.

You must have full, unrestricted right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer VISA sponsorship. Full UK driving licence is required.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document.

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.