Job Description

Expected Shortlisting Date
28/09/2025
Planned Interview Date
13/10/2025
The paediatric pharmacy team at Leeds Childrens Hospital have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, friendly, and forward-thinking service as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacists for Paediatric Surgery and Pain.
This unique role spans two highly specialised areas, giving you the opportunity to lead pharmacy services across paediatric surgery and pain management. You will provide expert clinical input for children and young people undergoing surgery and for those requiring acute or chronic pain management, working closely with consultants, anaesthetists, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team.
The General Paediatric Surgery and Urology service at Leeds offers multiple subspecialties, including neonatal, thoracic, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, oncology, and urology surgery, alongside pioneering minimally invasive and robotic techniques. As a designated Major Trauma Centre, the service also works in close partnership with Liver, Renal and Paediatric Cardiac Teams.
This is a role where you will apply the full breadth of your clinical skills every day from optimising medicines in complex surgical pathways to supporting innovative approaches in acute and chronic pain.
Main duties of the job
You will act as the lead pharmacist across Paediatric Surgery and Pain, providing advanced clinical input and medicines optimisation for children and young people undergoing surgery or requiring acute pain management. You will support children throughout their surgical journey, offering expert advice on complex analgesia, including multimodal pain management, opioid stewardship and safe discharge planning.
You will lead on guideline development, governance and service improvement projects to ensure the highest standards of care and the best patient experience. Education and training are integral to this role; you will deliver teaching to pharmacy, nursing and medical colleagues, building capability across the service. You will also provide clinical supervision to rotational pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainees, as well as contributing to the wider education of healthcare professionals.
In addition, you will contribute to audit and research activity, with opportunities to engage in regional and national specialty networks, helping to shape services and share best practice in paediatric surgery and pain management.
About us
Based within Leeds General Infirmary, in the centre of Leeds, the Leeds Childrens Hospital is one of the largest childrens hospitals in the UK and treats patients from across Yorkshire and the North of England as a secondary and tertiary referral centre.
The pharmacy department at Leeds is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. Our vision is making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines and we are continually innovating to improve our services for patients and staff.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Details
Date posted
05 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
55,690 to 68,682 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
C9298-MMP-422
Job locations
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate highly specialised clinical pharmacy
services to a clinical speciality within the Trust.
3. JOB DIMENSIONS
Leads the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the
multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality. Ensures medicines
are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with
Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. The
post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved
in specific circumstances.
Manage other pharmacists providing specialised clinical pharmacy service
within own clinical speciality depending on size of area.
Works directly and regularly with consultants, senior nursing staff and
managers within the clinical speciality. Monitors and interprets
expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provides the
Directorate with regular reports to assist in the safe use of medicines, the
management of the drug budget and clinical governance issues. The
report also includes risk management such as the recording of significant
clinical interventions and near misses.
1
The Trust reserves the right to require employees to work either temporarily or permanently at or from any other of the
Trusts establishments at any time
AfC number (626)
2
Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the
development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines
for use of drugs within the clinical area.
Responsible for training pharmacists, and other health care professionals,
on aspects of drug use within the clinical area.
Provides minimum of at least one 4 hour session of service cover in the
dispensary or aseptic dispensary each week. Participates in evening,
weekend and bank holiday rota and where appropriate, out of hours
services.
To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedures.
4. ORGANISATIONAL CHART
Clinical Director MMPS
Clinical Pharmacy Manager
Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
Specialist Pharmacist
5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Masters qualification in Pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent qualification
plus one year pre-registration experience
Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience or
qualification
Non medical prescriber status is preferred.
Substantial post registration experience as a practising clinical
pharmacist. Ability to demonstrate foundation level competencies in all
6 domains of the Advanced to Consultant Level Framework (ACLF)
Experience of dealing with highly complex clinical issues which require
the pharmacist to analyse information from a range of sources, which
may not be in agreement, to formulate a response. In such situations, it
may be necessary to find a novel solution to an unusual clinical
situation. The pharmacist will have developed negotiating and
persuasive skills with other clinical team members, patients and
relatives
Experience of dealing with a wide variety and grade of hospital staff
(including senior medical and managerial staff) on a regular and
ongoing basis
AfC number (626)
3
Specialist knowledge of clinical area/department which demonstrates
ability to manage a caseload, preferably within the clinical speciality Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate highly specialised clinical pharmacy
services to a clinical speciality within the Trust.
3. JOB DIMENSIONS
Leads the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the
multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality. Ensures medicines
are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with
Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. The
post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved
in specific circumstances.
Manage other pharmacists providing specialised clinical pharmacy service
within own clinical speciality depending on size of area.
Works directly and regularly with consultants, senior nursing staff and
managers within the clinical speciality. Monitors and interprets
expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provides the
Directorate with regular reports to assist in the safe use of medicines, the
management of the drug budget and clinical governance issues. The
report also includes risk management such as the recording of significant
clinical interventions and near misses.
1
The Trust reserves the right to require employees to work either temporarily or permanently at or from any other of the
Trusts establishments at any time
AfC number (626)
2
Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the
development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines
for use of drugs within the clinical area.
Responsible for training pharmacists, and other health care professionals,
on aspects of drug use within the clinical area.
Provides minimum of at least one 4 hour session of service cover in the
dispensary or aseptic dispensary each week. Participates in evening,
weekend and bank holiday rota and where appropriate, out of hours
services.
To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedures.
4. ORGANISATIONAL CHART
Clinical Director MMPS
Clinical Pharmacy Manager
Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
Specialist Pharmacist
5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Masters qualification in Pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent qualification
plus one year pre-registration experience
Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience or
qualification
Non medical prescriber status is preferred.
Substantial post registration experience as a practising clinical
pharmacist. Ability to demonstrate foundation level competencies in all
6 domains of the Advanced to Consultant Level Framework (ACLF)
Experience of dealing with highly complex clinical issues which require
the pharmacist to analyse information from a range of sources, which
may not be in agreement, to formulate a response. In such situations, it
may be necessary to find a novel solution to an unusual clinical
situation. The pharmacist will have developed negotiating and
persuasive skills with other clinical team members, patients and
relatives
Experience of dealing with a wide variety and grade of hospital staff
(including senior medical and managerial staff) on a regular and
ongoing basis
AfC number (626)
3
Specialist knowledge of clinical area/department which demonstrates
ability to manage a caseload, preferably within the clinical speciality
Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area
• understanding of local and national pharmaceutical policies

Desirable

• team dynamics and effective leadership strategies

Qualifications
Essential

• GPhC Registrant
• Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Non-medical prescriber

Skills & behaviours
Essential

• team player
• enthusiastic and self motivated
• able to work under own initiative
• excellent time management skills
• excellent communication skills
• highly adaptive to changing circumstances
• highly developed and negotiating skills

Desirable

• computer literate

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area
• understanding of local and national pharmaceutical policies

Desirable

• team dynamics and effective leadership strategies

Qualifications
Essential

• GPhC Registrant
• Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Non-medical prescriber

Skills & behaviours
Essential

• team player
• enthusiastic and self motivated
• able to work under own initiative
• excellent time management skills
• excellent communication skills
• highly adaptive to changing circumstances
• highly developed and negotiating skills

Desirable

• computer literate

Skills Required