Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 18 December 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to join our successful anticoagulation pharmacy team working across various sites at STHFT.

The pharmacy department at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises almost 500 staff, delivering care to patients from all over the country. As a forward-thinking department, we are keen to appoint enthusiastic, knowledgeable and exceptional individuals.

The successful applicant will be an experienced, capable and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with a specialist interest in anticoagulation & thrombosis prevention. Excellent communication & interpersonal skills and a postgraduate certificate in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience are required. Independent prescriber status is desirable.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity for personal & professional development within the team.

The team are responsible, together with the haemostasis & thrombosis consultant Haematologists, for ensuring safe, clinical- & cost-effective use of anticoagulant therapies across STH. This involves the writing & implementing of guidelines & policies relating to anticoagulants, educating other health professionals and the assessment of applications for new anticoagulants on to the Trust formulary.

The anticoagulation team provide a pharmacy service to a large group of patients on anticoagulants, participating in MDT meetings and service development.

Main duties of the job

The key roles of the post are to:

• To proactively identify, implement and develop optimum clinical pharmaceutical services regarding anticoagulants under the direction of the Principal Pharmacist, in close liaison with haematology.
• To evaluate the delivery, implementation and risks involved with clinical pharmaceutical services regarding anticoagulant therapies, under the direction of the Principal Pharmacist and with close liaison with Haematology.
• To be an active member of the STHFT Thrombosis Committee
• Perform independent pharmacist prescriber role (when completed relevant training).
• Application of highly complex knowledge of the evidence base behind anticoagulant drug therapies
• Produce and implement guidelines, protocols. PGDs and SOPs with the support of a principal pharmacist.
• Provide clinical services to the thrombosis service.
• Provide support and mentorship for the post-registration pharmacists
• Participate in the education and training of pre-registration pharmacists, other pharmacy staff and healthcare professionals.
• Support pharmacy service areas in the department, this may include dispensaries, technical services and medicines information
• Contribute to the out of hours service including evenings & weekends.

About us

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

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Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-graduate certificate in Clinical Pharmacy
• Registered Independent prescriber
• Higher degree/ postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate diploma in specialist area
• Postgraduate Masters in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent)

Experience

• Experience in secondary care in a wide range of clinical specialties.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team & experience in a UK hospital pharmacy
• Experience of clinical audit and service improvement projects
• Experience of leadership, delivery and evaluation of pharmacy projects with multidisciplinary implications
• Experience of working within service development projects
• Experience of regular contribution to multi-professional ward rounds
• Extensive Post-registration experience including significant experience in anticoagulation

Skills and Knowledge

• Proven experience in the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate, and communicate highly complex therapeutic options.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearpa/pro rata for part time staff