Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist – Surgery and Theatres

Overview

In this role you lead and shape the specialist pharmacy service for Surgery and Theatres across Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, combining advanced clinical practice with leadership and service development. You’ll partner with multidisciplinary teams to optimise medicines, improve safety, and drive outcomes for surgical patients. The position offers opportunities to lead improvement projects, teach and mentor, and develop prescribing capabilities in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• permanent contract
• competitive salary (Band 8a)
• opportunity for professional development
• support for independent prescribing
• NHS pension scheme

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day clinical pharmacy service for the Birmingham Heartlands Hospital site, collaborating with specialist colleagues
• Provide expert, patient-focused medicines advice and support safe, effective, cost-conscious use along the surgical pathway
• Deliver and develop the specialist service to surgical wards and theatres; provide cross-cover to critical care
• Work within the multidisciplinary team to influence medicines decisions and specialty plans
• Lead service improvement, clinical audit, research, guideline development and medicines safety initiatives
• Monitor medicines expenditure and contribute to cost-improvement plans
• Support seamless care across hospital, primary care and community interfaces
• Line manage, supervise, and mentor pharmacists, technicians, assistants, trainees and students
• Model UHB values: kind, connected and bold

Key requirements

• Master in Pharmacy; GPhC registration; postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent advanced practice; willingness to work towards non-medical prescribing
• Relevant clinical knowledge in complex settings; MDT experience; commitment to high-quality pharmaceutical care
• Experience in teaching/presenting to healthcare professionals and patients; commitment to CPD
• Ability to travel across all Trust sites; professional and reliable; calm under pressure

• strong clinical judgement
• excellent communication
• collaboration across professional boundaries
• medicines optimisation
• advanced clinical reasoning
• evidence-based practice

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