Northampton General Hospital

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Child Health

The closing date is 16 October 2025

Job summary

Would you like to progress your pharmacy career working in a friendly, supportive, forward-thinking Pharmacy Department?

Have you recently finished your foundation training and found most job satisfaction working every day for babies, children, young people and their families?

Would you like the opportunity to develop your career in hospital, in children's pharmacy practice?

If yes to these questions, then we want to hear from you! Please get in touch if you would like to find out more.

Main duties of the job

To be clinical specialist and work with the Paediatric Pharmacy team to provide acomprehensive specialist Pharmacy service to all areas of the Child health directorate. This may include prescribing, support work and developing initiatives. You will work closely within the Child health MDT and the Paediatric Pharmacy team.

Additional responsibilities within clinical areas as specified below:

Providing a Clinical and Specialist Pharmacist role

Managing (planning, organising, monitoring, controlling, developing staff etc)

Service development

Other duties/functions

We have a very strong team ethos with good support from your peers and the senior colleagues within and outside who support learning and development of skills. You will work closely with the full MDT alongside medicines management technicians who complement your focus on the clinical aspect of patient care. We are in the process of implementing electronic prescribing and medicines administration on our children's inpatient wards (January 2026) so your fresh eyes will be crucial in helping develop the right solution.

About us

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Date posted

02 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

265-7416742-CSS-A

Job locations

Northampton General Hospital

Cliftonville

Northampton

NN1 5BD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Services

To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice.

To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.

To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews and using patients own medicines.

To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy.

To record your clinical activity and to monitor the outcome of your advice.

To monitor interventions in treatment to identify training and information needs.

To fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.

To participate in CQUINs and QIPPs within the acute medical specialities.

To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.

Facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA.

To undertake validation duties in the dispensary.

To supervise, check and, if necessary, undertake the supply of medicines. Technical checking is in place; pharmacists make initial validations and have a professional responsibility to decide on the need for their further involvement in the supply process.

Speciality Clinical Pharmacy Role

To develop expertise in paediatrics and neonatology.

To obtain/maintain prescribing qualification and support Consultant led ward rounds and clinics.

To optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence and to support the patients journey throughout the Trust

Have a working knowledge of current practice and protocols within the speciality and how these relate to national and other guidance.

Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service, including enquiry answering service for speciality-related queries from other members of the pharmacy team, wards and clinics.

To lead and support the development and implementations of medicine related guidance, policies and procedures within speciality area.

To lead and support on the data collection relating to medicine use within the Child health directorate

To identify new opportunities for the development of pharmacy services and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.

To support the Lead Pharmacist Paediatrics in attending clinical governance meetings for the Child health directorate.

Management & Supervision

To line manage and lead those staff allocated, undertaking appraisals, supervision and identification of training and development of their skills and knowledge.

To assist in the induction of staff into the service; to help identify training and development needs

To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.

To partake / lead in recruitment of junior pharmacists or other pharmacy staff as required.

Education & Training,

To attend clinical pharmacy meetings as appropriate, and education/training schemes relevant to post.

To take part in formal and informal training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.

To be a supervisor on the Clinical Pharmacy Diploma course.

To supervise aspects of pre-registration training.

To provide information to patients, parents and carers on admission, discharge and in outpatient clinics regarding treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance, particularly if there is a need to overcome language barriers.

To maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement.

To take responsibility for own personal CPD by participating in education and training programmes to improve competence.

Other Duties

To undertake duties elsewhere in the locality, if required.

To undertake on call duties

To provide a pharmacy service at weekends.