Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 234-24-CS2856
- Employer
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Specialist Pharmacist – Medicines Management
NHS AfC: Band 7
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is a modern forward thinking teaching hospital offering acute care to a population of over 1 million. Electronic prescribing and medicines administration has been implemented across all inpatient wards, the Emergency Department and most recently as part of our response to COVID-19, for Outpatients. We have strong links with both the School of Pharmacy and the Medical School at the nearby University of East Anglia, with onsite teacher practitioner posts. The Trust has a clear commitment to patient centered care through investment in its services and staff.
The Pharmacy Department is at the forefront of healthcare delivery with a strong focus on Medicines Management and innovative pharmaceutical practice. It is challenging the current professional roles resulting in a number of innovative new pharmacy led developments and new posts, including pharmacists working within pre-op assessment and out-patient clinics and in our ED and admissions units.
Norwich itself is a vibrant city, with excellent shopping, restaurants and nightlife, yet surrounded by beautiful countryside. The unique combination of the Norfolk Broads, picturesque coastline and a choice of city or rural living make Norwich an ideal home.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our team and contribute to our clinical ward services and medicines safety / medicines management agendas.
The post holder will be required to help further develop and assist in the operation of the medicines safety /management agenda both within the pharmacy department and across the Trust. They will be involved in policy writing, undertaking and initiating audit and taking an active role in training and development of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professional groups with respect to medicines management. They will also develop and operate high quality clinical pharmacy services as part of one of our clinical pharmacy teams.
To support 7 day working all staff are required to work 1 in 10 weekends with corresponding time off given during the week. All staff are required to undertake at least one bank holiday duty per year.
There may be a requirement to participate in the on-call pharmacy service.
All rotas are subject to review at any time.
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The following skills and experience will be required and are essential for the successful candidates:
- To participate in and assist in the provision of clinical pharmacy services to the Trust in liaison with the Clinical Pharmacy Team Leaders
- To act as a specialist pharmacist providing an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to a specified clinical specialty which involves a more complex/high risk patient population to optimising patient care with respect to medicines for patients in liaison with health care professionals, including medical and nursing staff
- To initiative and actively implement service developments in a clinical specialty including pharmacy led service developments, i.e. one stoop dispensing, patient self-administration schemes and use of patient’s own drugs
- To develop a highly specialist knowledge of the clinical specialty and treatment of co-morbidities to promote and support evidence based medicine within clinical speciality and across the Trust to fulfil the role as a pharmaceutical lead in the specified clinical area
- To actively participate in medical ward rounds, MDT meetings etc. in the defined clinical speciality
- To actively prescribe discharge medication according to Trust protocol in order to ensure delays in discharge do not occur
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified Pharmacist registered with GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescribing
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a Clinical Pharmacist
- Specialist knowledge and experience in Clinical speciality
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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
- Helen Willimott
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 647523
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