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Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Paediatrics Surgery & Pain

The closing date is 26 September 2025

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Job summary

Expected Shortlisting Date

28/09/2025

Planned Interview Date

13/10/2025

The paediatric pharmacy team at Leeds Childrens Hospital have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, friendly, and forward-thinking service as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacists for Paediatric Surgery and Pain.

This unique role spans two highly specialised areas, giving you the opportunity to lead pharmacy services across paediatric surgery and pain management. You will provide expert clinical input for children and young people undergoing surgery and for those requiring acute or chronic pain management, working closely with consultants, anaesthetists, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team.

The General Paediatric Surgery and Urology service at Leeds offers multiple subspecialties, including neonatal, thoracic, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, oncology, and urology surgery, alongside pioneering minimally invasive and robotic techniques. As a designated Major Trauma Centre, the service also works in close partnership with Liver, Renal and Paediatric Cardiac Teams.

This is a role where you will apply the full breadth of your clinical skills every day from optimising medicines in complex surgical pathways to supporting innovative approaches in acute and chronic pain.

Main duties of the job

You will act as the lead pharmacist across Paediatric Surgery and Pain, providing advanced clinical input and medicines optimisation for children and young people undergoing surgery or requiring acute pain management. You will support children throughout their surgical journey, offering expert advice on complex analgesia, including multimodal pain management, opioid stewardship and safe discharge planning.

You will lead on guideline development, governance and service improvement projects to ensure the highest standards of care and the best patient experience. Education and training are integral to this role; you will deliver teaching to pharmacy, nursing and medical colleagues, building capability across the service. You will also provide clinical supervision to rotational pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainees, as well as contributing to the wider education of healthcare professionals.

In addition, you will contribute to audit and research activity, with opportunities to engage in regional and national specialty networks, helping to shape services and share best practice in paediatric surgery and pain management.

About us

Based within Leeds General Infirmary, in the centre of Leeds, the Leeds Childrens Hospital is one of the largest childrens hospitals in the UK and treats patients from across Yorkshire and the North of England as a secondary and tertiary referral centre.

The pharmacy department at Leeds is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. Our vision is making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines and we are continually innovating to improve our services for patients and staff.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date posted

05 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £68,682 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9298-MMP-422

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate highly specialised clinical pharmacy

services to a clinical speciality within the Trust.

3. JOB DIMENSIONS

Leads the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the

multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality. Ensures medicines

are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with

Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. The

post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved

in specific circumstances.

Manage other pharmacists providing specialised clinical pharmacy service

within own clinical speciality depending on size of area.

Works directly and regularly with consultants, senior nursing staff and

managers within the clinical speciality. Monitors and interprets

expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provides the

Directorate with regular reports to assist in the safe use of medicines, the

management of the drug budget and clinical governance issues. The

report also includes risk management such as the recording of significant

clinical interventions and near misses.

The Trust reserves the right to require employees to work either temporarily or permanently at or from any other of the

Trusts establishments at any time

AfC number (626)

Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the

development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines

for use of drugs within the clinical area.

Responsible for training pharmacists, and other health care professionals,

on aspects of drug use within the clinical area.

Provides minimum of at least one 4 hour session of service cover in the

dispensary or aseptic dispensary each week. Participates in evening,

weekend and bank holiday rota and where appropriate, out of hours

services.

To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedures.

4. ORGANISATIONAL CHART

Clinical Director MMPS

Clinical Pharmacy Manager

Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Specialist Pharmacist

5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Masters qualification in Pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent qualification

plus one year pre-registration experience

Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience or

qualification

Non medical prescriber status is preferred.

Substantial post registration experience as a practising clinical

pharmacist. Ability to demonstrate foundation level competencies in all

6 domains of the Advanced to Consultant Level Framework (ACLF)

Experience of dealing with highly complex clinical issues which require

the pharmacist to analyse information from a range of sources, which

may not be in agreement, to formulate a response. In such situations, it

may be necessary to find a novel solution to an unusual clinical

situation. The pharmacist will have developed negotiating and

persuasive skills with other clinical team members, patients and

relatives

Experience of dealing with a wide variety and grade of hospital staff

(including senior medical and managerial staff) on a regular and

ongoing basis

AfC number (626)

Specialist knowledge of clinical area/department which demonstrates

ability to manage a caseload, preferably within the clinical speciality