Advanced Pharmacist – Adult Medicine & Urgent Care

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The closing date is 04 February 2026

Kettering General NHS Foundation Hospitals are seeking an experienced, motivated and dynamic clinical pharmacist with excellent communication and leadership skills to join our established, friendly clinical pharmacy team.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical pharmacy services to the Adult Medicine and Planned Care Directorate of the Medicine Division. This role will contribute to the delivery of clinical pharmacy service covers all inpatient areas including Respiratory, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Care of the Elderly and Acute/Emergency Medicine.

• To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services within Adult Medicine
• To provide expert pharmaceutical care through the promotion of safe, appropriate and clinically effective use of drug therapy; ensures risks within medicine management are identified and managed; ensures compliance with all relevant medicines - related legislation and policy.
• To manage allocated staff to ensure the effective operation of the day to day delivery of pharmacy services to the Adult Medicine division and deputise for the Medicine Lead Pharmacist when needed.
• To ensure the efficient and cost-effective use of medicines utilising local and national data to drive improvements in efficiencies.
• To advise senior and junior medical staff and nurses on medicines management issues.
• To support the Lead Pharmacist for Professional Development with the development of all staff within the pharmacy department.
• To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade as requested by the Chief Pharmacist.

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:
Compassion
Respect
Integrity
Courageous
Accountable

Please refer to the attached Patient Specification and Job Description.

• Support the Lead Pharmacist for Medicine to manage the pharmacy clinical service across the Adult Medicine Division
• Providing professional leadership and support for other pharmacy services as needed.
• Liaising with nursing and medical staff, senior clinicians and managers to drive forward improvements within Adult Medicine
• Demonstrate a high level of commitment to and enthusiasm for research, audit and education in the clinical area.
• To act as a deputy for Team medicine when needed.
• To be a line manager to designated staff within the team. To be responsible for managing attendance and performance, and identifying staff training needs through individual performance development plans.
• To participate in the provision of the Pharmacy on-call emergency duty service (2nd on-call)

• Educated to Master's degree in pharmacy level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
• Registration with the GPHC
• Achieved postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience) diploma /MSc Clinical Pharmacy
• Registered Independent prescriber
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, UKCPA or other Society
• RPS faculty recognition or Advanced Pharmacist Accreditation
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner

• Extensive post-graduate hospital clinical pharmacy experience
• Clinical experience in a range of ward/clinical areas
• Experience of working on consultant ward rounds
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Expert clinical knowledge of commonly prescribed medicines with Medicine
• Good knowledge of NICE guidelines for common conditions
• Preparation of guidelines involving other healthcare professionals
• NHS arrangements, eg ICB, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance

• Excellent interpersonal skills, honest, trustworthy, motivated, influencing and negotiating skills
• Time management/Organisation/Delegation/ Prioritisation
• IT (Microsoft/Powerpoint/Ascribe)
• Line management/supervision

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum/pro rata