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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8c
Contract
12 months (Fixed term or secondment)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
275-2508LP-CS
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital
Town
Kent
Salary
£76,965 - £88,682 per annum/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/08/2025 23:59

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Lead Pharmacist - Clinical Services

Band 8c

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

Lead Pharmacist - Clinical Services

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Pharmacy

Band: 8c

Salary: £76,965 - £88,682 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: 11th September 2025

We are recruiting for a Lead Pharmacist - Clinical Services 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 purpose of this job is to provide clinical leadership to the pharmacy clinical services team and to be a senior leader within the department to ensure the delivery of exceptional clinical pharmacy services, ensuring the highest standards of patient care and safety.

With a focus on continuous improvement and innovation, this role requires strategic leadership, mentorship and collaboration across the Trust and wider system to optimise medicines management and enhance patient outcomes.

 

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

Leadership and Management – Lead and manage the clinical pharmacy team, providing guidance, mentorship and support to foster a culture of excellence and collaboration.

Clinical oversight – Provide professional oversight of clinical pharmacy services across all wards, clinics and departments, ensuring the safe, effective and cost-efficient use of medicines.

Clinical Practice – To develop an area of clinical expertise and provide a regular clinical commitment, working as an independent prescriber in a specialist area of practice.

Strategic development – Develop and implement strategic initiatives to enhance clinical pharmacy services, aligning with organisational objectives and national guidelines

Education and Training – Lead the education and training of clinical pharmacy staff, ensuring continuous professional development and adherence to best practices.

Collaboration and Integration – Collaborate with senior medical, nursing and managerial staff to improvement medicines management process and integrate pharmacy services across the healthcare system

Research and innovation – Drive research and innovation in clinical pharmacy practice, contributing to the advancement of knowledge and best practices in the field

Quality Assurance – Establish processes for monitoring and assessing performance and standards within the clinical pharmacy service ensuring continuous improvement and adherence to regulatory requirements.

Community Engagement – Foster strong partnerships with community healthcare providers and regional stakeholders to enhance collaborative care and service delivery.

Workforce Planning – Lead workforce planning initiatives within the clinical pharmacy service, ensuring appropriate skill mix and resource allocation.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent
  • Professional Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable criteria
  • Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Advanced level knowledge of clinical pharmacy and an ability to apply abstract and sometimes contradictory data to practice
  • Knowledge of the requirements of national organisations involved in clinical pharmacy e.g. DoH, RPS, UKCPA.
  • Knowledge of relevant regulations and legislation

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience of performing and supervising projects.
  • Experience of working with senior healthcare professionals outside of pharmacy to achieve cross -Trust developments.
  • Experience of leading and developing clinical pharmacy services

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Be able to provide highly complex information on clinical pharmacy and medicines management issues and impart knowledge to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor/executive director level)
  • Be able to analyse highly complex information relating to medicines and their uses
  • Be able to formulate and deliver on long term strategic plans for the effective development and delivery of clinical pharmacy services
  • Have experience of disciplinary matters and be able to impart results from them to staff in an appropriate and considered manner

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Simon Matthews
Job title
Deputy Chief Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Steve Cook, Chief Pharmacist

Email: [email protected]

 

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