Senior Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job overview

An exciting new opportunity exists for an experienced Clinical Pharmacist with management experience to lead our antimicrobial stewardship pharmacy team in the delivery of evidence based improvements in antimicrobial stewardship. Working closely with the Director of Infection Prevention and Control and the pharmacy leadership team you will be expected to propose and subsequently deliver improvement ideas. The success of these changes will initially be measured against ‘Start Smart Then Focus’ audit results and improvements against national targets such as AWaRe and IVOS. We are therefore looking for someone with vision who can engage with and influence a range of different healthcare professionals including medical, nursing and pharmacy staff.

The Trust is committed to use electronic solutions such as ICNet to target patients in need of an antimicrobial review e.g. due to a drug bug mismatch or IVOS so we are looking for someone with an interest in informatics who can influence and optimise these changes in working practice.

• Interview Date Thursday 24 July 2025
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

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Main duties of the job

Key aspects of this new role include:

• Provide strategic leadership to deliver improvements in Trust Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Work closely with the Director of Infection Prevention and Control and the pharmacy leadership team
• Network with other Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacists and medical and nursing leads at a regional and national level to develop and share best practice
• Provide regular teaching sessions to medical, nursing and pharmacy staff
• Co-ordinate regular audits to demonstrate performance against standards of good practice and to monitor impact of interventions
• Contribute to clinical research
• On a six monthly basis present a report to the Trust Medicines Management Oversight Group, highlighting areas of concern to the executives if required
• Participate in the Trust multidisciplinary Antimicrobial Steward Group
• Develop an antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship competency framework for the Trust
• Work towards global antimicrobial stewardship accreditation
• Work as a Senior Clinical Pharmacist targeting patients in most need of a clinical review
• Contribute to pharmacy operational duties on a rotational basis such as evening and weekend working
• Work closely with the Clinical Services Lead Pharmacist to ensure all Clinical Pharmacists recognise their role in antimicrobial stewardship
• Responsible for the day to day management of a team of two Band 8a AMS Pharmacists and a Band 6 AMS Pharmacy Technician to ensure delivery of key targets

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will also be expected to develop an antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship competency framework for the Trust and ultimately work towards global antimicrobial stewardship accreditation.

We are looking for someone who can ultimately work expertly across the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership, research and education so if you want to work towards becoming a Consultant AMS Pharmacist, this could be the role for you.

• To provide highly specialised pharmaceutical advice relating to use of medicines to senior medical and nursing staff
• To lead, deliver, develop, and evaluate clinical pharmacy services
• To manage other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
• To promote the safe, rational, and cost-effective use of medicines by working closely with nursing and medical staff and healthcare managers
• To coordinate the activities of clinical pharmacy staff
• To perform the professional role of a registered pharmacist

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.