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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

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

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

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
 
Our Excellence Values:
Compassion
Respect
Integrity
Courageous
Accountable

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveDisability confident leaderInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.National Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark

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
Geshwin Ramnarain
Job title
Principle Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01536 491417
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