Specialist Surgical Pharmacist /Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

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Specialist Surgical Pharmacist / Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 28 January 2026

A rare opportunity has arisen for a driven and ambitious pharmacist to join our surgical services pharmacy team. This is a progressive role, starting at band 7 with a clear development pathway to band 8a. The successful candidate will be supported through a structured competency framework aligned to the four pillars of pharmacy practice

• Clinical Practice
• Leadership and Management
• Education
• Research

You will initially demonstrate leadership in managing and supporting the team on a day-to-day basis, with progression to responsibilities in clinical audit, medicines optimisation strategies, education and training, and service improvement initiatives. We are committed to delivering the highest level of pharmaceutical care to surgical patients. We are looking for a strong candidate ready to take the next step in their career.

Our team includes pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and medicines management support staff, working collaboratively to provide safe and effective care.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the clinical pharmacy team to deliver safe, effective and optimum clinical pharmacy services to surgical patients at South Tees Hospitals in addition to providing expert advice, guidance and information on treatment choices, medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues to senior staff and managers within the services.

The post holder will also continuously complete service evaluation and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) to continuously make improvements to the pharmacy service.

The post holder will actively consult patients in a variety of clinical settings and make clinical interventions to improve patient care and patient safety.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
• Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
• Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to clinical practice
• Involvement in development of evidence based clinical guidelines, policies and protocols
• Strong knowledge of medicines information resources
• Membership of regional/national/international specialist interest groups relevant to field of practice

Qualifications and Training

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate clinical qualification
• Pharmacist independent prescribing accreditation or actively working towards qualification
• Evidence of CPD and ongoing education
• Membership with Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Working towards RPS advanced clinical practice or consultancy frameworks

Experience

• Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting
• Experience of providing directorate level pharmacist services e.g. budgetary reports, drug usage reviews
• Developments of protocols and policies
• Experience of developing strong professional relationships with other healthcare professionals
• Experience of contributing to relevant research, audit and service improvement projects
• Experience of involvement in MDT service development, or MDT clinical meetings
• Staff leadership and management experience
• Experience in mentorship and training for other staff
• Teaching experience in clinical and classroom setting

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.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust