Specialist Pharmacist - General Medicine/Teacher Practitioner

Job overview

Specialist Pharmacist - General Medicine/Teacher Practitioner

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 8a

Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: 1st December 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 specialist pharmacist for the General Medicine service at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. They will be a role model, working to a high level within the pharmacy department. The post holder will also act as an undergraduate and postgraduate Teacher Practitioner and be part of the Clinical and Professional Practice team at Medway School of Pharmacy, Universities of Kent and Greenwich at Medway. Responsibilities are wide ranging and may change according to the needs of the faculty and the individual.

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

Specialist Pharmacist •    To be a specialist clinical pharmacist in their area of speciality working at, or near to, the Advanced Pharmacy Framework Advanced Stage 1 and aspiring to progress to Advanced Stage 2 and beyond in the role. •    To provide a high quality, safe, cost-effective and responsive clinical pharmacy service to wards and clinical areas in their speciality.  •    To deputise for the lead clinical pharmacist in the care group, where appropriate.   •    Work as part of a collaborative pharmacy clinical pharmacy team, utilising collective expertise to proactively develop clinical pharmacy services.  •    Be an integrated member of the specialist area, attending relevant meetings and advising on medicines governance, formulary, finance, safety and pathways. •    To aspire to work as an advanced practitioner to provide enhanced prescribing and assessment support to the care group in an area of specialist practice on wards and in clinic, as appropriate. Training and guidance to achieve this will be given, if required.  •    Line manage and contribute the education and training of pharmacy staff and the multi-disciplinary team working in their speciality. •    Review medicines use and expenditure data, in liaison with relevant members of the specialist area to explain, interpret and horizon scan changes in medicines use and expenditure. •    To develop a research and audit portfolio.  •    To help deliver  the medicines management, clinical pharmacy and the medicines optimisation strategy for the department.

Teacher Practitioner The Teacher Practitioner will work (2 days a week) within Medway School of Pharmacy to provide the following general Teacher Practitioner duties:  •    Teach on the school’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, as appropriate. •    Design, evaluate and deliver innovative teaching materials •    Design, develop and prepare student assessments in conjunction with colleagues from the Clinical and Professional Practice team •    Mark student work and provide constructive feedback in a timely manner •    Act as assessor for undergraduate and postgraduate OSCE examinations, as required. •    Undertake personal tutor duties and provide general pastoral care for students