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Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist (XR08)

The closing date is 27 October 2025

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Job summary

Expected Shortlisting Date

24/10/2025

Planned Interview Date

10/11/2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated pharmacist to join our clinical pharmacy team as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Womens Services. This role will allow you to take a lead in delivering and developing high-quality pharmaceutical care across maternity services within one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK.

Main duties of the job

You will provide expert clinical pharmacy input and oversight to our Womens CSU. The post will give you the opportunity to be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team and to work alongside advanced practitioners and national experts.

You will work closely with the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Neonates, cross-covering each other and contributing to areas such as:

Supporting neonatal intensive and special care units with specialist clinical pharmacy input.

Providing advice on complex neonatal and perinatal medicines, including unlicensed and high-risk drugs.

Overseeing safe prescribing, administration and monitoring of medicines in both maternity and neonatal pathways.

Supporting discharge planning for mothers and babies, ensuring continuity of medicines use and communication with community providers.

Participating in teaching and training of pharmacists, doctors, nurses and midwives across womens and childrens services.

You will be committed to leading and developing the pharmacy team within this area; take an active role in the education and training of both pharmacy staff and other health care professionals. There is opportunity to work with the Trust and Childrens CSU on their exciting discharge collaborative work, ensuring women are discharged safely, without unnecessary delays. You will monitor and report on clinical and financial governance of medicine.

About us

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is a fantastic trust to work for with great opportunities to develop. We need people who are passionate about their role and who can uphold the Leeds Way Values to ensure the patients journey is a positive experience.

There will be commitment to providing core professional commitments, late night duties and weekend duties within the Medicines Management and Pharmacy Service.

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

06 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9298-MMP-437

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Job description

Job responsibilities

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist 8a

JOB PURPOSE

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate highly specialised clinical pharmacy services to a clinical speciality within the Trust.

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.

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.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Clinical

Lead the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality.

Supports the Trust's Prescribing Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the Medicines Code.

Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy, advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve in specific circumstances.

Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient care.

Plan, manage, monitor and review individual patient care plans.

Participate in consultant ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, often when information is limited.

Undertake risk management, including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring compliance with medicine legislation.

The post holder will be expected to identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues within and outside the pharmacy.

Manage the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.

Manage the clinical pharmacist input into clinical trials.

Develop and update policies for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical and nursing staff.

Communication with Primary Care about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.

Management

Monitor and interpret expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provide the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget

a. Attend the monthly Clinical Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial implications

- Horizon scan for new drugs and advise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications

b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings Projects

c. Review prescribing data from out-patient clinics

Contribution to financial initiatives

Write or respond to business cases for service development to secure additional funding.

Responsible for day to day supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical speciality (some staff)

Research and Education

Occasionally participates in research and development within clinical speciality

Undertakes own research/audit within clinical speciality

Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will typically include:

- Acting as a trainer to pre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice

- Being a named tutor for a pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist

- Lecturing on clinical issues relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program, the clinical diploma, and any other in service training.

The post holder is also expected to participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their specialist area as requested.

Develop the role of a specialist pharmacist through national links.

Other

Provide a service commitment, typically a four hour session to a specific area within the pharmacy department e.g. dispensary, aseptics or medicines information

Perform other duties as directed by manager

Participate in the weekend service and where contracted, the emergency duty service