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Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Surgical Services

Medway NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 per annum/pro rata
Profession
Pharmacist
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
24 Jun 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
10 Jun 2025

Job overview

Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Surgical Services

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 8b

Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Lead Clinical Pharmacist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The lead pharmacist will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to surgical services patients under the care of Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to promote the optimised, safe and cost-effective use of medicines.

You will be a core member of the Trust’s pharmacy department, providing professional pharmaceutical governance, medicines safety, medicines information, medicines finance, education and training and medicines optimisation support to the team.

You will build relationships and work with internal stakeholders and external partners to support the delivery of high quality pharmaceutical care to patients.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Lead the provision of specialist clinical pharmaceutical services to the staff (medical, nursing, allied health professionals and managers) and patients of the surgical ward service in order to achieve high quality, safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing and use of medicines and ensure a safe transition of care across settings.

Provide pharmaceutical professional support, legal and ethical guidance and advice to all clinical and non-clinical staff within the service to raise and maintain standards of practice that meet or exceed current standards.

Attend, and contribute to, regular multidisciplinary team meetings (face to face or virtual clinics) where patients are reviewed.

Prescribe medication for individual patients within the agreed scope of practice and competence, and according to Medway NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures. Although independent prescribing is a desired qualification, candidates without this qualification will be considered.

Liaise and work in partnership with external health professionals and stakeholders across the integrated care system (ICS) in the management of virtual ward patients (e.g. GPs, community and primary care network pharmacists, social care providers)

Develop and deliver training and education to ensure staff are delivering high quality and evidence-based care when using medicines.

Develop and maintain policies and standard operating procedures for the service that are evidence-based and comply with legal and current guidance thus providing tools to maintain the safe and secure handling of medicines.

Lead on the governance of medicines for the service including the audit of policies and the management of medicines incidents in order to maintain and continually improve standards of patient care.

Manage the collection of data to respond to pharmacy/medicine Key Performance Indicators relating to surgical services and write regular reports as part of a program of audit/service evaluation.

Support the transfer of care of patients discharged from the surgical services, ensuring a high standard of information provision concerning medicines to relevant professionals and organisations and onward referral to appropriate services to support patients to live independently and manage their medicines

Facilitate and undertake research to inform practice developments and underpin delivery of an effective, evidence-based pharmacy service