Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff
Main area Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Neurology Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (part time working would be considered) Job ref 164-8090333
Site QMC Campus Town Nottingham Salary £49,387 – £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/07/2026 23:59
Job overview
This is an exciting new job, created to support a new Neurology Speciality ward at the Queens Medical Centre.
We are looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist with a passion for neurology to work with the doctors, nurses and wider MDT on the neurology ward to deliver excellent care to our patients.
The post holder will have a key role in supporting the change in speciality for the ward area, ensuring safe prescribing, administration and medicines management on the ward.
The post holder will be supported by the Specialist Pharmacist for Neurology and the Specialist Pharmacist for Neurosciences, along with the wider Neurology and Pharmacy teams.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will primarily provide a clinical pharmacy ward service to the Neurology ward at Queens Medical Centre.
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the Neurology ward.
To work alongside the multidisciplinary team delivering excellent patient care through medicines optimisation. If a qualified prescriber, the post holder will also utilise their prescribing skills to do this.
To facilitate with timely discharges by clinically screening discharge prescriptions/TTOs.
To assist the Specialist Clinical Pharmacists with specialty level support roles such as governance, teaching and guidelines.
To support, mentor & line manage junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians and students.
To be actively involved in quality improvement projects.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff,we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake .
To provide a clinical Pharmacy Service to the Neurology ward at Queens Medical Centre.
To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patient’s own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care on leaving hospital.
To ensure patients receive the best pharmaceutical care throughout their stay.
To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified.
To make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.
To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the medical team specialties.
To facilitate or conduct clinical audits and quality improvement projects.
To support the Specialist Pharmacists for Neurology and Neurosciences with ensuring good medicines management and governance within the Neurology speciality.
Screening of Neurology Homecare Prescriptions.
To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties.
We operate a 7day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on-call rota providing back-up support to the on-call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist-free and technician led, so there are no operational commitments.
Person specification
Qualifications
- B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm.
- GPhC registered
- Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or other appropriate post graduate qualification
- Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification
- Member of the RPS
Skills & Experience
- Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
- Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital/Clinical pharmacy
- Broad knowledge base of clinical areas.
- Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting
- Experience of day to day supervision and assisting in training of pre registration pharmacists and/or technicians
- Experience of working within Neurology specialiaty
- Experience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit / research work at local (Trust) level.
- Evidence of project work completed
- Evidence with supporting the introduction of new medicines into a speciality
- Experience of using High Cost Drugs and the associated paperwork
PLanning and organisational
- Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise
Communication and relationship skills
- Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession.
- Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal skills.
- Empathy with patients, relatives and pharmacy customers.
- Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
- Able to defend opinions when challenged
- Teaching skills
Analytical and Judgement skills
- Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication process
- Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management
- Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information
- Experience of analysing expenditure
Other
- Self-motivated, conscientious, confident, assertive
- Ability to work alone and make decision including when participating in on call rota
- Weekend and shift working
- Commitment to support the Trust Values
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.
Consent
- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service – I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me
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