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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
26 hours per week
Job ref
275-2504SP-GM
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 per annum/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/05/2025 23:59

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Specialist Pharmacist - General Medicine

Band 8a

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Job overview

Specialist Pharmacist - General Medicine

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 8a

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: 3rd June 2025 

We are recruiting for a Specialist Pharmacist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the department lead for all activity relating to General medicine patients. They will be a role model, working to a high level within the pharmacy department.

Specialist Pharmacists are expected to have a key leadership role, acting as a role model for others. They will communicate and maintain excellent working relationships with all those that use, commission and work within the services delivered.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today. 

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for providing and overseeing the pharmacy clinical service provided to the general medicine wards within the hospital

Carry out education and counselling of new patients at the start of newly started high risk medicines.

Ensures the provision of a proactive, high quality, cost effective, safe and responsive service to general medicine wards.

To actively develop the general medicine pharmacy service, exploring opportunities for clinically advanced services, such as review of patients in clinic.

To provide a clinical ward pharmacy service to the general medicine wards and lead on the education and training of other members of pharmacy and MDT in the pharmaceutical management of these patients.

Check the clinical accuracy and appropriateness of prescriptions for patients

To ensure the appropriate ordering of medicines for general medicine to ensure medicines are available for patients and to minimise wastage from unused or expired medicines.

Attend the board rounds and MDTs where applicaple within general medicine, providing expert pharmaceutical advice.

To actively lead on efficiency savings within general medicine.

To support with the screening of Homecare prescriptions.

To be the pharmacy department liaison with the wider within general medicine.

To identify and implement opportunities for the efficient use of medicines in general medicine.

To support with the late night, weekend and bank holiday rota as part of the department’s 7 day services.

To develop a personal audit and research portfolio.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Master’s degree in pharmacy
  • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist in the UK (or eligible to be)
  • Specialist post graduate qualification such as clinical diploma or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Non-medical Independent Prescribing Qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of medicine
  • Knowledge of and ability to apply all aspects of regulatory legislation and guidelines
  • Demonstrate expert knowledge covering a range of pharmacy services and able to provide highly specialist advice

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in the area to a high level
  • Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives to time in previous posts
  • Experience of providing a service to the Specialist area
  • Experience in providing and receiving highly complex and contentious information

Values Based Question

Essential criteria
  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a ‘can do’ attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
  • Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
  • Able to manage and support others
  • Advanced IT skills – including MS Word, Excel, email and PowerPoint

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
Bukky Francis
Job title
Lead Pharmacist - Respiratory and ILD
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01634 976 941
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