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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri Weekends, evenings and bank holidays on a shared rota with all other pharmacists)
Job ref
190-0649-DIR
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northern General Hospital
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/08/2025 23:59
Interview date
27/08/2025

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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Inflammatory Bowel Disease

NHS AfC: Band 8a

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

We are looking for a dynamic clinical pharmacist with extensive NHS post-registration experience, to help us deliver fantastic advanced-level pharmacy care to our Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients.

Our well established and progressive gastroenterology service now offers one of the most comprehensive and specialised services in the UK.  The department has a particular reputation for the clinical care of colitis and Crohn’s disease, as well as in the management of coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, nutritional support and intestinal failure, cancer, autoimmune liver disease and viral hepatitis.

Great emphasis is placed on multidisciplinary care, with specialist nurses, dieticians and pharmacists in the team working alongside the consultants. We also have a friendly team of clinical pharmacists, technicians and assistants providing a clinical pharmacy service to all of gastroenterology and hepatology. You will be responsible for the clinical pharmacy service to the IBD patients. 

As well as significant post-registration experience, you’ll also need a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy alongside excellent clinical leadership, interpersonal and communications skills and be an Independent Prescriber.

Main duties of the job

  • To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services to the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) service in accordance with the objectives set by the Principal Pharmacist and the Clinical Directorate management representative. 
  • Contribute to the multidisciplinary IBD  team as a clinical practitioner, championing medicines optimisation
  • To deliver relevant education, training, mentorship and clinical supervision. 
  • To contribute to the pharmacy departmental services including evenings and weekends.

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • MPharm degree in pharmacy.
  • Higher degree/ Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate diploma in specialist area
  • Registered Independent Prescriber
Desirable criteria
  • Post-graduate Masters in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent qualification).
  • Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to sustain prolonged concentration despite unpredictable workload.
  • Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
  • To adopt a flexible working attitude to meet the needs of the patient and the pharmacy department, identifying a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical care.
  • Ability to develop good working relationships across traditional boundaries, e.g., primary/secondary/tertiary care.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive post-registration experience including significant experience in IBD, Gastroenterology and/or hepatology
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of teaching and/or tutoring students.
  • Research, audit, and publication experience
  • Appropriate Short Management Course e.g., appraisal training, leadership skills.

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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
Helen Barnes
Job title
Principal Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 2715801
Additional information

Helen Barnes: [email protected]

Mick Dale, email: [email protected]

Saima Annett: [email protected]

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