Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-LG-EMF19516
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £57,888 - £64,880 Per annum (pro rata) including High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Specialist Pharmacist – HPB and Upper GI Specialties B8a
Band 8a
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to join our Surgical Pharmacy team as the Lead Specialist Pharmacist for Hepato-Biliary - Pancreatic (HPB) and Upper GI Surgery.
The post holder will work closely with the Principal Pharmacist for Surgery and be embedded in the multidisciplinary team whilst being responsible for providing comprehensive clinical pharmacy services as well as being at the forefront of service development.
We are looking for an experienced pharmacist with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and excellent communication skills. You will need to have the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team, driving change in practice and have a keen interest to actively participate in the training and development of others.
The department is supportive of further education, including leadership and prescribing qualifications if not already held, and you should be keen to continue your professional development.
To support you in your role, we provide an environment where we learn, improve and celebrate our work as one team focusing on providing the very best care.
Successful applicants will be required to participate in late night, weekend working and public holiday work.
For further information, please contact Ali Pilkington, Principal Pharmacist – Surgical division
[email protected]
Telephone 01483 571122 Bleep 71-0991
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for leading, providing and developing the clinical pharmacy service for the Hepatobiliary / pancreatic (HPB) and Upper GI Surgical patients within the surgical division. Ensuring the safe, cost effective and patient focused pharmaceutical care of patients
To provide a framework for the safe, effective and economic use of medicine resources within the specialist clinical area utilising sound medicines management and clinical governance principles
To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist for Surgical Division when required
To be an integral part of the HPB / Upper GI Surgical MDT team and attend and contribute to ward rounds.
To supervise and train pharmacists / pharmacy technicians whilst on rotation, and other healthcare professionals working within the specialty.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
Act as a subject matter expert on HPB and Upper GI Surgical patients for the pharmacy department and the wider clinical workforce.
Provide clinical pharmacy services to HPB/UGI patients throughout their secondary and tertiary care. Ensuring optimal pharmaceutical care and facilitate the safe effective supply and prescribing of medicines.
Attend Consultant led ward rounds and where appropriate be able to act as an independent non-medical prescriber. Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the wider MDT team as required.
Identify potential clinical developments to the surgical Triumvirate management team and plan the implantation to ensure that services continue to meet customer’s requirement and income is sufficient to fund development.
Implement local and national pharmaceutical care guidelines with the HPB / Upper GI service in collaboration with clinical colleagues, ensuring that guidelines are available and up dated, and that the wider workforce is kept abreast of new practice or any changes to existing practices.
Act as a governance lead on medication issues relating to HPB and Upper GI surgery through attendance at divisional governance meetings and be responsible for actions of issues arising. Undertakes risk assessment and manages these risks as required.
Communicate highly complex pharmaceutical information to health professionals, patients and / or carers, adapted to their level of understanding to ensure safe, effective administration of treatment and promote understanding and compliance.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent and 1 year pre-registration training.
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (Great Britain) as attained following successful completion of 1 year competency assessment and examination.
- Post-graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- MSc in clinical pharmacy.
- Registered independent non-medical prescriber.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational master's degree in pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent.
- Advanced level core therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills as gained through Post-graduate clinical diploma (or equivalent)
- Demonstrates high level of clinical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement; manages difficult and ambiguous problems.
- Understanding of background to and aims of national and local healthcare policy/guidance and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and priorities.
- Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to the area of practice as developed through experience and CPD including conferences, courses etc.
- Demonstrable experience as a specialist practitioner in hospital clinical pharmacy.
- Experience as an advanced level clinical pharmacist practitioner, able to demonstrate a high level of competency e.g. equivalent to achieving Excellence in the majority of competencies in all clusters within the Advanced Level Competency Framework, except Management and R&D, which should be at Foundation level (as a minimum).
- Previous specialist clinical pharmacy experience in surgery care.
- Variety of clinical practice including medicine and surgery as a specialist.
- Evidence of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups.
- Previous experience of delivering training and education at post-graduate level.
- Evidence of activity in clinical audit or drug use review to improve practice.
- Current developments in pharmacy.
- Changes occurring in the NHS.
Desirable criteria
- Delivery of a parenteral nutrition service.
- Experience in Hospital pharmacy at management/directorate level.
- Experience of supervision or line managing others.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ali Pilkington
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist – Surgical division
- Email address
- [email protected]
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