Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- AfC Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-JH-EMF20798-B8A
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £59,798 - £67,020 (per annum) includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist – Acute Medicine
AfC Band 8a
Job overview
We're looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking pharmacist to lead and shape our Medicone pharmacy service at Royal Surrey County Hospital. This is a rare chance to take on a high-profile clinical leadership role at the heart of a well-established and supportive Multidisciplinary Team.
You will work directly alongside your fellow lead pharmacists to ensure that our Pharmacy strategy is met.
Whether you're already an experience specialist pharmacist looking for a change of direction or a band 7 looking to take the next step we look forward to hearing from you.
What we are looking for:
Essential:
• MPharm or equivalent; GPhC registered
• Post-registration Clinical Diploma or equivalent
• Broad post-registration clinical pharmacy experience, ideally in an acute setting
• Demonstrable knowledge of Acute medicine and specialities within this e.g. Cardiology, Respiratory and Gastroenterology.
• Experience of developing medicines policies, leading teams, and working across multidisciplinary settings
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills able to convey complex clinical information clearly to a range of audiences
Main duties of the job
Leading on safe, cost-effective prescribing across the specialty, including monitoring drug usage, expenditure, and biosimilar switching
Developing and implementing prescribing guidelines, policies, and protocols for the department
Representing pharmacy at governance and service / finance meetings
Acting as a clinical role model supporting, mentoring, and educating junior pharmacists, rotational staff, and other healthcare professionals
If you are a registered prescriber we will support you using this qualification. If not we will support you to gain Independent prescribing status
Driving service development and innovation, with the opportunity to participate in research and audit
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme alongside a strong commitment to developing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family ensures you feel valued from your initial interview and throughout your time with us.
We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging hospital and community services, alongside delivering regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford, with community sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh, and services delivered in patients’ homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We work in partnership with Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through a collaborative Group Model, supporting joined-up services, workforce flexibility and development opportunities.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us as Outstanding. We are proud of our achievements and continue to invest in our people and infrastructure.
To learn more about life at Royal Surrey, please watch our short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Provide an exemplar ward based clinical pharmacist service to the acute medical unit; the post holder will partake in and develop the pharmacist role in post-take ward rounds at the trust to interdict inappropriate prescribing. To provide clinical pharmacy services to other wards within the speciality as the need arises.
• Responsible for leading, developing and evaluating the delivery of clinical pharmacy services to the division within the direction of the Principal Pharmacist and Deputy Chief Pharmacist.
• The post holder has responsibility for leadership and management of the acute medicine service under the direction of the Principal Pharmacist for the acute medicine specialities at RSCH (emergency medicine, acute medicine, medical-SDEC, respiratory, cardiology, gastroenterology and general medical ward(s)).
• Lead and manage the clinical pharmacy service to the speciality business unit in collaboration with the Principal Pharmacist.
• To be an integral part of the relevant MDTs.
• To provide specialist in-house teaching relating to the specialty to Trust staff and to rotational pharmacists undertaking the Certificate or Diploma in pharmacy practice.
• Responsible for reviewing and writing procedures, policies and guidelines relating to the relevant specialty having an impact on staff within pharmacy and the wider Trust.
• Responsible for reviewing and writing procedures, policies and guidelines relation to the pharmacy services within the division.
• Post holder may be required to tutor a pharmacist undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice.
• Post holder may be required to tutor a trainee pharmacist as the need arises as either Designated Supervisor (DS) or Designated Pharmacist Practitioner (DPP).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent and 1 year pre- registration training
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (Great Britain) as attained following successful completion of 1-year competency assessment and examination.
- Post-graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MSc in clinical pharmacy
- Registered supplementary/independent non-medical prescriber
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent
- Advanced level core therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills as gained through Post-graduate clinical diploma (or equivalent)
- Demonstrates very high level of clinical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement; manages difficult and ambiguous problems
- Understanding of background and aims of national and local healthcare policy/guidance and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and priorities
- Evidence of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups
- Experience of report writing
- Knowledge of current developments in pharmacy
- Knowledge of current developments in the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to the area of practice as developed through experience and CPD including conferences, courses etc.
- Demonstrable experience as a specialist practitioner in hospital clinical pharmacy
- Experience as an advanced level clinical pharmacist practitioner, able to demonstrate a high level of competency e.g. equivalent to achieving Advanced level II in the majority of competencies in all clusters within the Advanced Level Competency Framework.
- Previous relevant specialist clinical pharmacy experience i.e. within medical specialisms
- Variety of clinical practice in medicine as a specialist
- Experience in Hospital pharmacy including managing teams.
- Experience of supervision or line managing others
- Previous experience of delivering training and education at post- graduate level
- Evidence of practice research or audit / QI
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
- Catrin Watkinson
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
If you have any further questions about the post please do not hesitate to get in touch and contact Rachael Kamiri-Ngugi Principal Pharmacist Hepatology and Surrey Hepatitis C ODN via email: [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- 01483 571122 Ext 2478
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