Job requirements
Essential
46 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Extensive relevant post-registration experience
- Experience
Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge.
- Experience
Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
- Experience
Familiarity with the concepts of evidence-based medicines.
- Experience
Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety.
- Experience
Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience
Specialist knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services.
- Experience
Understanding of issues related to independent prescribing.
- Experience
Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services.
- Experience
Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
- Experience
Experience of implementing NICE, NSF recommendations related to medicines.
- Experience
Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines.
- Experience
Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals
- Mental Effort
Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data.
- Mental Effort
Critical appraisal skills.
- Mental Effort
Ability to challenge.
- Mental Effort
Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions.
- Mental Effort
Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Qualifications
Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Qualifications
Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Qualifications
Specialist knowledge acquired through a post graduate diploma course in Clinical Pharmacy or similar or alternatively acquired through relevant and equivalent experience
- Physical Effort
Able to lift / carry pharmaceutical goods.
- Physical skills
Computer literate including use of word-processing, excel spread-sheets, power-point.
- Physical skills
Ability to write report and other documents.
- Emotional Effort
Exposure to upsetting situations, high level of resilience to deal with distressing and/or challenging situations
- Emotional Effort
Distressed patients with complex diseases. May work with distressed patients, relatives due to drug regime, drug misadventures.
- Specific role requirements
Reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
- Specific role requirements
Flexible approach.
- Specific role requirements
Able to concentrate on dispensing / checking/ clinical screening for extended periods.
- Specific role requirements
Able to cope with interruptions when busy.
- Specific role requirements
Able to work to deadlines i.e., transport, patients requiring medication.
- Specific role requirements
Professional appearance and manner.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Excellent organisational skills.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to develop effective working relationships at all levels.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to communicate effectively with a range of healthcare staff including prescribers, social care staff and patients.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Good time management skills, with ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Knowledge of other professional registering bodies e.g., NMC, GMC.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Able to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Able to work and deliver within identified timelines.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Good written communication skills.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Good presentation skills.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Good verbal communication skills.
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these.
- Experience
Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
- Experience
Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist.
- Experience
Management/supervision of pharmacy staff.
- Qualifications
Registered independent prescriber with the GPhC.
- Physical skills
Knowledge of primary care clinical Systems (EMIS/SystmOne)
- Physical skills
Knowledge of secondary care clinical systems.
- Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net and to interpret data produced.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, innovative and highly motivated pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Team as Lead Pharmacist for Paediatrics with Antimicrobial Stewardship.
This newly created Band 8a post offers a unique opportunity to work across two important specialist areas of practice. The successful candidate will provide leadership for the Trust's paediatric pharmacy service, delivering expert clinical input, medicines optimisation, governance, education and service development for children and young people. They will work closely with paediatric medical, nursing and multidisciplinary teams to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred pharmaceutical care.
In addition, the post holder will play a key role in supporting the Trust's antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programme. Working alongside the Trust's established Lead Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist, the successful candidate will support the delivery of the Trust's AMS agenda across the organisation, with a particular interest in paediatric antimicrobial stewardship.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include:
- Provide specialist clinical pharmacy leadership for paediatric services across the Trust, ensuring the safe, effective and evidence-based use of medicines for children and young people.
- Work collaboratively with paediatric consultants, medical staff, nurses and allied health professionals to optimise medicines management and improve patient outcomes.
- Lead the development, implementation and review of clinical guidelines, policies and pathways relating to paediatric medicines and AMS use.
- Contribute to medicines safety, audit and quality improvement initiatives within paediatric and AMS services.
- Provide education and training on paediatric medicines and antimicrobials to pharmacy, medical and nursing colleagues.
- Support service development projects that enhance the quality, safety and effectiveness of paediatric pharmacy services.
- Work alongside the Trust's Lead Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist to support delivery of the Trust's antimicrobial stewardship strategy.
- Support antimicrobial stewardship ward rounds and review antimicrobial prescribing to promote the safe, effective and appropriate use of antimicrobials across the Trust.
- Provide specialist advice on antimicrobial therapy, antimicrobial stewardship and medicines optimisation to healthcare professionals.
- Work collaboratively with microbiology, infection prevention and control teams, clinicians and pharmacists to improve antimicrobial use and reduce antimicrobial resistance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be an integral member of the Pharmacy Department, providing specialist pharmacy leadership across paediatric services and antimicrobial stewardship. They will work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to support medicines optimisation, clinical governance, service development and the delivery of high-quality patient care.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.
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.
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This advert is for Lead Pharmacist for Paediatrics with Antimicrobial Stewardship with North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust in Warrington, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Sep 2026.
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