Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 270-TG263-CORP-D
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northamptonshire
- Town
- Northamptonshire
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Pharmacist Elderly Care, Rehabilitation and Frailty
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you looking for a rewarding and dynamic role where you can apply your knowledge, contribute to patient safety and be part of a multi-disciplinary team?
At NHFT, we’re looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to help lead and deliver outstanding care to our community inpatient beds.
We have two posts available, to cover sites in Northampton and Daventry or Rushden and Wellingborough.
About the Service
NHFT community inpatient services provide accommodation and care for individuals requiring health and social care recovery and rehabilitation, delivered by a dedicated multi-disciplinary team.
Admissions typically follow an acute hospital stay or emergency attendance, helping patients regain independence and avoid unnecessary hospital readmissions.
The patients may:
• Have had a severe illness
• Have had a decline in their health after a long-term illness
• Need medical, physical or specialist rehabilitation
• Have had a stroke or a brain injury
• Require end-of-life care
• Be experiencing frailty
• Be experiencing confusion or delirium
This is a varied role with the successful applicant needing to work independently and within the pharmacy team. Travel between sites will be necessary and you must be able to travel independently to other bases in the Trust across Northamptonshire.
Main duties of the job
Why Join Us?
This is a varied and autonomous role where you will work both independently and as part of the wider pharmacy team. You’ll have the opportunity to shape clinical pharmacy services, implement pharmacist prescribing, and make a real difference to patient outcomes.
Who can apply?
We welcome applications from registered pharmacists working in all sectors of pharmacy.
The organisation has a strong commitment to the learning and development of their pharmacy team.
Please do get in touch with us to discuss your suitability for this role.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist
- MPharm degree, or equivalent pharmacy qualification
- Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience)
- Evidence of recent continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience within the NHS setting
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit
- Experience of teaching, mentoring and tutoring
- Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit
- Experience of data collection, analysis and report writing
Desirable criteria
- Experience of prescribing within a specialty to optimise medicines for specific patient groups
- Management qualification relevant to the NHS
- Experience of developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures
- Experience of managing staff
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
- Natalie Fasham
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07730 192717
- Additional information
This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, innovative, and supportive Pharmacy Department, so for further details please contact Natalie Fasham, Deputy Chief Pharmacist on 07730192717 or email [email protected]
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