# Pharmacist Advanced Endocrinology and Sustainability

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- **Location:** Lister Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover: end date is 12 months from the start date)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T09:20:37.913Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Stevenage/East_North_Hertfordshire_Teaching_NHS_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8211697
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8211697?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Endocrinology and who has an interest in sustainability who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist to work with the diabetes and endocrinology consultants, specialist nurses and clinical pharmacy team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused service to gastroenterology patients.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with Lead Clinicians and nurses in a truly MDT setting.

The ideal candidate will use their non-medical prescribing qualification to optimise individual patient's drug therapies as appropriate.

You will also be supported to develop their leadership and management skills.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

### Main duties of the job

Provide a high-profile lead role in the provision and development of pharmaceutical services to the diabetes and endocrinology department

Lead on the pharmacy sustainability agenda and work closely with the Chief Pharmacist on the ICB sustainability plan .

Develop and maintain a role as a non-medical prescriber (NMP).

Play an integral role in the multidisciplinary team that delivers a high quality clinical service to endocrinology patients within the Trust. This will include regular attendance of consultant-led ward rounds, independently prescribing to optimise individual patients’ medicines and leading a team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to deliver an effective pharmacy service.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- High level of professionalism
- Wide ranging clinical skills
- Good communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to motivate others
- Able to negotiate with staff at all levels
- Able to use initiative and lead on clinical projects including audit, medicine switches and change management
- Demonstrate leadership skills
- Good organisational skills and ability to manage own time
- Able to work independently
- Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
- Able to analyse and interpret a wide range of clinical and non-clinical information
- Able to cope with stress and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines
- Effective training skills and ability to teach a range of staff groups
- Good oral and written presentation skills
- Good problem solving skills
- Lateral thinker who is able to develop ideas

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Excellent general and endocrinology clinical knowledge
- Able to use clinical knowledge at senior level
- Specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialised area
- Knowledge of healthcare systems, guidance and NHS change
- Able to critically appraise research data
- Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists
- Confident user of Excel, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
- Good working knowledge of NHSE directives e.g. NICE and commissioning policies
- Clinical Governance

### Other Requirements

**Essential**

- Professional attitude
- Enthusiastic, innovative and self-motivated
- Conscientious and reliable
- Able to be flexible and work as a team player
- Polite and courteous
- Able to demonstrate reflective practice
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff

### Previous Experience

**Essential**

- Relevant post registration experience in acute hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working in Endocrinology
- Supervision of staff
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience in training and development of junior staff
- Proven experience of audit
- Experience in writing policies/guidelines/PGDs

**Desirable**

- Analysis and management of drug expenditure
- Presentations at local/regional level
- Experience prescribing in specialist area
- Quality, service and/or cost improvement projects and report writing
- Investigation of incidents and risk management
- Management of staff
- Tutoring of post graduate or foundation trainee pharmacists
- Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management

### Qualifications/Training

**Essential**

- Masters Degree MPharm
- Registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist
- Evidence of CPD to maintain fitness to practice
- Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2)

**Desirable**

- Qualified and registered as a non-medical prescriber (or working towards completion of NMP qualification)

### Role model our Trust values every day

**Essential**

- Include
- Respect
- Improve

## Documents

- [showcasing our teaching commitment (pdf, 5.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2905)
- [must read guidance notes - application forms (pdf, 91.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=549)
- [policy statement - recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 101.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=551)
- [guidance on secondments for internal applicants (pdf, 101.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2748)
- [guidance notes for applicants - how your data is used and stored (pdf, 416.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=550)
- [pharmacist advanced endocrinology and sustainability applicant pack (pdf, 642.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10520259)

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