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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 7 - Band 8a Development opportunity
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
338-7631376-26
Employer
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Malton Community Hospital
Town
Malton
Salary
£47,810 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/04/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist- Community Services

Band 7 - Band 8a Development opportunity

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

Are you an experienced pharmacist seeking new challenges? If so, then this is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your existing skills. 

Applications are also welcome from band 7 pharmacists who are looking to progress to band 8a as this is a transitional role

We are looking for a keen and committed pharmacist with excellent communication skills and clinical pharmacy knowledge to join our expanding multi-disciplinary community teams as Specialist Clinical Pharmacist. This post will be an exciting challenge for someone who is highly motivated and keen to develop their clinical and professional skills.

We would prefer an independent prescribing pharmacist or a pharmacist working towards becoming an independent pharmacist prescriber. If you are not already an independent pharmacist prescriber, you will be supported to gain this qualification.

The ability to work flexibly and be able to travel across Scarborough and Ryedale would be an advantage.

We provide various training opportunities to help you progress in your career and we are willing to consider and offer relocation package to the successful candidate. 

The post holder is an experienced pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, to develop, manage and mentor a team of pharmacists.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will  

  • provide clinical pharmacy services to designated in-patient units and community teams within Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (HTFT) 

  • Undertake medicines optimisation projects and tasks including audit, literature reviews and research. 

  • Provide expert pharmaceutical advice to teams and units within designated specialities. 

  • Review the use of medicines, answer medication queries, take drug histories, participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and take part in discharge planning to ensure that medicines prescribed are safe, clinically effective and cost effective in line with local, regional and national policies. 

  • Have overall responsibility for the safe and legal use of medicines within designated specialities in accordance with Trust policies 

  • Prescribe independently or work toward a prescribing qualification. 

  • Manage pharmacy technicians within designated units and teams. 

  • Support professional development of members of the multidisciplinary team when appropriate 

  • Progression from band 7 to band 8 is based on the completion of appropriate training requirements and/or successful completion of a portfolio of evidence aligned to Advanced Pharmacy Framework by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

 

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Professional registration

Essential criteria
  • GPhC Registered Pharmacist with significant post registration experience
Desirable criteria
  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
  • Higher degree or post-graduate qualification Clinical diploma or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
  • Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification – Independent prescriber or working towards this
  • Doctorate degree in pharmacy

Skills and Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information and to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
  • Good communicator, both verbal and written, and ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
  • Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors colleagues where needed
  • Good IT skills
  • Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
  • Understanding of primary and secondary care working and the interface between them.
  • Work effectively independently and as a team member.
  • Able to lead the development of new areas of medicines optimisation, prescribing and administration of medicines under patient group directions.
  • Understanding of issues facing the NHS

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience as clinical pharmacist in Secondary Care or Primary Care, having worked and taken leadership in more than one specialist area
  • Able to demonstrate record of achieving results against set targets in various clinical area
  • Experience of staff development and change management
  • Managing quality and cost effectiveness initiatives Participating in continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in community hospital or community services involving prescribing/medicines optimisation
  • Experience of service development in an NHS organisation
  • Project planning

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Self-motivated & Shows Initiative
  • Self-confident, Adaptable and Team worker
  • Ability to commute within HTFT premises

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Esther Sanni
Job title
Principal Clinical Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07815029317
Additional information

Esther Sanni, email [email protected]

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