# Principal Pharmacist - Infection Management > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-pharmacist-infection-management/527da541-1cac-41ee-b7dc-0f0488657159 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/principal-pharmacist-infection-management/527da541-1cac-41ee-b7dc-0f0488657159.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Peterborough - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-02T11:16:04.395Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Principal_Pharmacist_Infection_Management/Principal_Pharmacist_Infection_Management-v8051735 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8051735?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are currently seeking a Principal Pharmacist for Infection Management to join our dedicated pharmacy team. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and experienced pharmacist to play a pivotal role in managing infection control strategies and delivering expert pharmaceutical care within the Trust. The Principal Pharmacist for Infection Management will lead and develop infection management services within the Trust, providing expert advice and guidance to multidisciplinary teams on the appropriate use of antimicrobials. You will be responsible for ensuring the safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of medicines across the Trust, supporting infection prevention and control initiatives, and ensuring compliance with national and local guidelines. As part of your role, you will also be involved in clinical governance, education and training, audit, and research initiatives to improve patient safety and outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a team of highly skilled professionals in a fast-paced and varied environment. *Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice* ### Main duties of the job You will be a vital leader within the pharmacy service in our Trust and the principal pharmacist for Infection management. You will: Work to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum*. This includes: - Take professional responsibility for the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the designated (CBU) / Specialty area and associated clinical areas and wards to meet their goals. - Act as line manager as shown in the organisational structure chart. - Provide expert clinical and service information to support departmental operational service development and strategic planning. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities If you are interested in this position then please read the full job description and person specification attached to this vacancy ## Job Details We are currently seeking a Principal Pharmacist for Infection Management to join our dedicated pharmacy team. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and experienced pharmacist to play a pivotal role in managing infection control strategies and delivering expert pharmaceutical care within the Trust. The Principal Pharmacist for Infection Management will lead and develop infection management services within the Trust, providing expert advice and guidance to multidisciplinary teams on the appropriate use of antimicrobials. You will be responsible for ensuring the safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of medicines across the Trust, supporting infection prevention and control initiatives, and ensuring compliance with national and local guidelines. As part of your role, you will also be involved in clinical governance, education and training, audit, and research initiatives to improve patient safety and outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a team of highly skilled professionals in a fast-paced and varied environment. *Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice* ## Job Description You will be a vital leader within the pharmacy service in our Trust and the principal pharmacist for Infection management. You will: Work to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum*. This includes: Take professional responsibility for the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the designated (CBU) / Specialty area and associated clinical areas and wards to meet their goals. Act as line manager as shown in the organisational structure chart. Provide expert clinical and service information to support departmental operational service development and strategic planning. ## Responsibilities If you are interested in this position then please read the full job description and person specification attached to this vacancy ## Person Specification ### Key Skills **Essential** - Communication of highly complex information to senior managers, other professionals and patients. - Proven leadership skills - Able to demonstrate effective management and leadership of staff - Analytical and judgement skills - Concentration required frequently interrupted with urgent requests - Acts appropriately in distressing or emotional circumstances - Proven ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians, managers and key stakeholders - Organisational awareness - Ability to forecast and innovate including long term service planning ### Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Significant experience in a senior hospital pharmacy management role and significant clinical experience in Infection Management - Significant experience in both clinical and financial management - Recent experience of both operational and strategic planning - Experience of working across the wider health economy including partnership work - Recent responsibility for managing transformational change programmes - Familiarity with Quality improvement methodologies - Familiarity with national and local medicine commissioning requirements - Experience of leading change management processes ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to Degree or Masters level in Pharmacy - Registered Pharmacist (GPhC) - Postgraduate qualification relevant to hospital pharmacy practice - Leadership / Management qualification relevant to the NHS or equivalent management qualification or experience - Registered Pharmacy non-medical prescriber **Desirable** - Postgraduate qualification in Microbiology / Infection Management ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886) - [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865) - [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745) - [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788) - [principal pharmacist - ps (pdf, 176.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341179) - [information pack - job description (pdf, 584.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341178) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.