Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Required to work weekends, bank holidays and late nights on a rota basis within Pharmacy team.)
- Job ref
- 225-DIV3JD-8368408
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacist - Gastroenterology
Band 8a
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking pharmacist to join The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust as the Senior Pharmacist for Gastroenterology.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead pharmacy services within a large and expanding Gastroenterology Directorate, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
You will provide expert clinical leadership across:
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Endoscopy Services
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- High-cost medicines and biologic therapies
- Inpatient services and medicines optimisation
The post offers the opportunity to influence service development, support innovative models of care, and promote the safe, effective and cost-efficient use of medicines.
Reporting to the Principal Pharmacist for Medicine, you will join an experienced and supportive pharmacy team. RWT Pharmacy were proud winners of the Trust's Clinical Team of the Year Award 2024.
We are looking for a pharmacist who:
- Is passionate about delivering excellent patient care
- Maintains high professional and clinical standards
- Is adaptable and resilient in a busy environment
- Is committed to service improvement and innovation
- Builds effective multidisciplinary relationships
- Has the ambition to lead and develop services
Applications are welcomed from experienced Band 7 pharmacists looking to progress, as well as those already working at Band 8a level with the appropriate skills and experience.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical and directorate support to the Care of Older Adults Directorate and wards. The directorate is located across all 3 sites at RWT.
Support the Principal pharmacists for Division 2 with developing relevant clinical services and the Principal pharmacist for Division 3 in the provision of clinical input to virtual wards.
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy advice to patients and liaise with the consultants and nursing teams to support safe and appropriate prescribing in this patient group.
To ensure that developments in the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service to patients who are treated in line with the strategic direction for the development of clinical pharmacy services within the Trust.
To continuously monitor the drug expenditure against budgets for the Care of Older Adults Directorate. To analyse expenditure information, seeking and investigating changing trends and making recommendations for savings, without compromising patient care, to appropriate consultants and departments. To assist consultants and departments in implementing the agreed changes required to make cost savings.
To manage any medicine-related switch schemes or CIPs that may arise, in conjunction with the wider pharmacy and Care of Older Adults teams ensuring as far as possible a safe, efficient and comprehensive service.
To work under the supervision of the Principal Pharmacist for Division 2 (medicine).
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.
We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities - subject to AFC matching
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Pharmacist registered with the GPhC
- Post Graduate Clinical Diploma or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescriber qualification or working towards this qualification (score 2 if course ongoingt)
- Additional postgraduate qualifications
Experience and skills
Essential criteria
- Significant post registrational experience
- Able to work in multidisciplinary teams and independently.
- Experience in supervising, training and assessing staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in an outpatient clinic
- Ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge of pharmacy in the context of Gastroenterology and IBD medicine.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Kiran Salhan
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01902 695757
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