Skip to main content
Please wait, loading

Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
275-2412SP-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
12/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Medway NHS Foundation Trust logo

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

Job Title: Specialist Pharmacist - Generalised Medicine

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Band: 8a

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

We are recruiting for a Specialist Pharmacist - General Medicine 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.

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.

Main duties of the job

Join our pharmacy department and you will work as part of an innovative and well respected team within the Trust. You will have the opportunity to contribute to transformational changes leading to better care for our patients and better experience for our staff.

Here within pharmacy, we have a strong and forward thinking senior leadership team and our transformational work has been presented at national and regional events, most recently at the Health Education England regional Workforce and Quality day.

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. Full training will be provided. 

Working for our organisation

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly?   In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.  

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

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

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
  • Experience in providing and receiving highly complex and contentious information

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - SilverDisability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStep into health

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

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

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

Niksha Patel

Lead Pharmacist - Clinical Services

[email protected]

Apply online nowAlert me to similar vacancies