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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dedicated Pharmacist to join the Formulary Team for 1 year to cover maternity leave.
The role will equip you with new skills and knowledge in processes around formulary, commissioning and introduction of new drugs.
You will focus on the development and management of the formulary and associated prescribing guidance.
You will provide high quality advice and guidance, and influence and implement change relating to medicines use, liaising with a range of health and social care professionals within the trust and region.
You will need good organisational skills, the ability to work on your own initiative as well as excellent communication skills.
Main duties of the job
On behalf of the Trust, you will: • be responsible for contributing to the management of the system-wide medicines formulary, including development, implementation and maintenance. • Liaise with the relevant senior pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, other allied health professionals and managers to promote safe, evidence based and cost-effective use of medicines. • Provide specialist pharmacist advice and service in relation to formulary matters. • Assist the Principal Pharmacist - Pharmacy Commissioning & Formulary in providing advice to service users on commissioning matters as required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: - applied for a Graduate visa - or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment - or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 2nd August 2026
Interviews are due to be held on 10th August 2026
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Good organisation skills/time management
- Able to prioritise workload and target efforts appropriately
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Able to give oral presentations appropriate to the level of the audience including students
- Able to produce written reports
- Good consultation skills.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff.
- Able to work well in a team
- Ability to listen and act on direction from senior pharmacists
- Ability to review the pharmaceutical care of patients in a reasonable time frame including medicines reconciliation
Desirable
- Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
- Able to produce written support materials for training.
- Proven ability to teach and train a range of staff groups.
Knowledge
Essential
- Good clinical knowledge of drugs and therapeutic trends within general medicine and surgery
- Knowledge of NICE and NPSA guidance and subsequent examples of local implementation
- Knowledge of Health care systems and NHS changes
- Computer literate with experience of Word, Powerpoint and Excel
- Familiar with the use of a range of visual aids for teaching.
- Pharmacy computer systems training.
Experience
Essential
- Moderate post-registration hospital experience including prescription screening in inpatients/outpatients, medicines reconciliation, medicines information, experience of preparative services either TPN/chemotherapy
- Experienced clinical pharmacist who has covered a range of specialities including elderly care, acute medicine, specialist medicine and surgery
- Documentation in medical notes.
- Writing reports
- Writing or assisting in writing drug policies and guidelines/PGD development
- Evidence of having conducted a clinical audit
Desirable
- Recent post-registration hospital experience, ideally including previous experience in a teaching hospital and experience of more than one hospital
- Experienced clinical pharmacist (at band 7) including one or more of the following neurosciences, paediatrics, critical care, renal, transplant, oncology, haematology
- Evidence of having written pharmaceutical and/or educational publications.
- Experience as a personal tutor to a range of staff groups
- Drug expenditure analysis and reporting
- Horizon scanning
- Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level degree in pharmacy.
- Post-graduate preregistration year.
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Completed Certificate (Year 1) of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice and studying for completion of year 2 or completed equivalent qualification as assessed by the interview panel.
Desirable
- Completed year 1 and year 2 of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice)
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)
- Qualified and registered as an Independent prescriber
- Risk management training
- Professional and final accuracy checking
- Member of the faculty of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or working towards)
Additional requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
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This advert is for Specialist Pharmacist - Formulary with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata. The contract type is 12 months (Secondment/Fixed Term, maternity cover). The application deadline is 02 Aug 2026.
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