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Pharmacist
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
164-7854711
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Nottingham City Hospital
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/04/2026 23:59

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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - HIV

Band 8a

Job overview

Nottingham University Hospitals is in one of the UK’s largest acute teaching hospital Trusts and has a national and international reputation for many of its specialist services and expertise. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic pharmacist to work with our HIV, Infectious Diseases and Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) teams.

The successful candidate will work directly with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and with our patients in our clinics and on wards to provide excellent pharmaceutical care.

The post holder will also provide leadership and support to the junior members of this team, based at the City Hospital Campus.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for working directly with our clinicians, nurse specialists and finance teams to deliver safe and effective treatment to patients within the HIV, Infectious Diseases and Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) teams.

This role provides an excellent opportunity for an experienced, motivated clinical pharmacist to take on responsibility for a group of  exciting, high profile clinical specialities.

Act as an expert resource on the safe and effective use of medicines for the management of HIV.

Support the safe and effective provision of medicines via homecare and the outpatient pharmacy for HIV patients, including the timely clinical screening of prescriptions.

Involvement in education and training of a variety of healthcare professionals including diploma and pre-registration pharmacists and pharmacy undergraduate students. 

Contribute to HIV/GUM service development and national cost saving schemes.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post will be based predominantly at the City Hospital Campus. The role will be mainly Monday to Friday 9am- 5pm, but these hours are negotiable. You will also be required to participate in a rostered weekend and bank holiday rota. In addition to this there is a requirement to  support the on-call pharmacists through the senior pharmacist back-up rota.

The pharmacy department at NUH is forward thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care. We continue to extend the ideal model of delivering medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care where pharmacists are fully integrated into the medical teams, supported by a team of medicines management technicians and assistants. With the introduction of electronic prescribing and many other digital systems it offers us the ability to provide clinical care in exciting and innovative ways.

The post also has a clinical commitment to the inpatient medical wards at the City Campus 1 day per week. 

Please refer to the full job description as part of the advert. If you have any further questions about the post please do not hesitate to get in touch with Mike Hey on the contact details provided.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • To be qualified as a pharmacist independent prescriber, or be willing to work towards

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Broad previous experience (post-registration) of clinical pharmacy, particularly in acute settings
  • Some experience of excellent leadership and management skills
  • Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service related policies for a specialty
  • Experience of multidisciplinary team working at Pharmacy, Trust and regional level
Desirable criteria
  • HIV Experience

Communication & Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
  • Confident and assertive; able to defend opinions in a confident and constructive manner when challenged
  • Proven ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians, managers and stakeholders

Analytical & Judgement Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience of assessing and minimising risk associated with service provision and within medication processes
  • Experience in making judgements involving highly complex facts, which require analysis, interpretation and options appraisal e.g. drug expenditure, medicines optimisation

Planning & Organisation Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to plan and organise existing and new clinical pharmacy services to a speciality. This may include creation and adjustment of plans
  • • Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills, able to motivate others, to manage time effectively and work to deadlines, even when under pressure

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mike Hey
Job title
Assistant Head of Pharmacy-Clinical Services
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07812268532
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