Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend and on call commitment)
- Job ref
- 264-7714338-CSS
- Employer
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kettering General Hospitals
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Pharmacist – Adult Medicine & Urgent Care
Band 8a
Job overview
Kettering General NHS Foundation Hospitals are seeking an experienced, motivated and dynamic clinical pharmacist with excellent communication and leadership skills to join our established, friendly clinical pharmacy team.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical pharmacy services to the Adult Medicine and Planned Care Directorate of the Medicine Division. This role will contribute to the delivery of clinical pharmacy service covers all inpatient areas including Respiratory, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Care of the Elderly and Acute/Emergency Medicine.
Main duties of the job
- To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services within Adult Medicine
- To provide expert pharmaceutical care through the promotion of safe, appropriate and clinically effective use of drug therapy; ensures risks within medicine management are identified and managed; ensures compliance with all relevant medicines – related legislation and policy.
- To manage allocated staff to ensure the effective operation of the day to day delivery of pharmacy services to the Adult Medicine division and deputise for the Medicine Lead Pharmacist when needed.
- To ensure the efficient and cost-effective use of medicines utilising local and national data to drive improvements in efficiencies.
- To advise senior and junior medical staff and nurses on medicines management issues.
- To support the Lead Pharmacist for Professional Development with the development of all staff within the pharmacy department.
- To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade as requested by the Chief Pharmacist.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Patient Specification and Job Description.
- Support the Lead Pharmacist for Medicine to manage the pharmacy clinical service across the Adult Medicine Division
- Providing professional leadership and support for other pharmacy services as needed.
- Liaising with nursing and medical staff, senior clinicians and managers to drive forward improvements within Adult Medicine
- Demonstrate a high level of commitment to and enthusiasm for research, audit and education in the clinical area.
- To act as a deputy for Team medicine when needed.
- To be a line manager to designated staff within the team. To be responsible for managing attendance and performance, and identifying staff training needs through individual performance development plans.
- To participate in the provision of the Pharmacy on-call emergency duty service (2nd on-call)
Person specification
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master’s degree in pharmacy level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Registration with the GPHC
- Achieved postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience) diploma /MSc Clinical Pharmacy
- Registered Independent prescriber
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, UKCPA or other Society
- RPS faculty recognition or Advanced Pharmacist Accreditation
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post-graduate hospital clinical pharmacy experience
- Clinical experience in a range of ward/clinical areas
- Experience of working on consultant ward rounds
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Expert clinical knowledge of commonly prescribed medicines with Medicine
- Good knowledge of NICE guidelines for common conditions
- Preparation of guidelines involving other healthcare professionals
- NHS arrangements, eg ICB, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills, honest, trustworthy, motivated, influencing and negotiating skills
- Time management/Organisation/Delegation/ Prioritisation
- IT (Microsoft/Powerpoint/Ascribe)
Desirable criteria
- Line management/supervision
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
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
- Geshwin Ramnarain
- Job title
- Principle Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01536 491417
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