Specialist Pharmacist - General Medicine

Job overview

Specialist Pharmacist - General Medicine

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 8a

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: 3rd June 2025

We are recruiting for a Specialist Pharmacist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the department lead for all activity relating to General medicine patients. They will be a role model, working to a high level within the pharmacy department.

Specialist Pharmacists are expected to have a key leadership role, acting as a role model for others. They will communicate and maintain excellent working relationships with all those that use, commission and work within the services delivered.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for providing and overseeing the pharmacy clinical service provided to the general medicine wards within the hospital

Carry out education and counselling of new patients at the start of newly started high risk medicines.

Ensures the provision of a proactive, high quality, cost effective, safe and responsive service to general medicine wards.

To actively develop the general medicine pharmacy service, exploring opportunities for clinically advanced services, such as review of patients in clinic.

To provide a clinical ward pharmacy service to the general medicine wards and lead on the education and training of other members of pharmacy and MDT in the pharmaceutical management of these patients.

Check the clinical accuracy and appropriateness of prescriptions for patients

To ensure the appropriate ordering of medicines for general medicine to ensure medicines are available for patients and to minimise wastage from unused or expired medicines.

Attend the board rounds and MDTs where applicaple within general medicine, providing expert pharmaceutical advice.

To actively lead on efficiency savings within general medicine.

To support with the screening of Homecare prescriptions.

To be the pharmacy department liaison with the wider within general medicine.

To identify and implement opportunities for the efficient use of medicines in general medicine.

To support with the late night, weekend and bank holiday rota as part of the department’s 7 day services.

To develop a personal audit and research portfolio.