Job Description

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) are looking for an experienced, dynamic and self-motivated Pharmacist to join our team as Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation and Governance
The role will work with a wide range of stakeholders in health and care to deliver pharmacy and medicines optimisation projects. Experience in variety of settings (e.g., primary care/ secondary/ community/ health and justice) and/ or leadership role would be desirable.
As the Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation and Governance you will work with the Medicines Management Committee to ensure the Committee's work plan is delivered efficiently, ensuring all Medicines Management Polices, Guidelines, Protocols are reviewed and updated in a timely manner and associated assurance monitoring is undertaken and submitted to the committee.
Your role will include leading on Patient Group Directions (PGDs) ensuring National Standards and NICE guidance are met and developing your already impressive organisational skills by working within clearly defined and often tight auditing project timelines.
Main duties of the job
Main duties and responsibilities:
You will be the pharmacy lead within the Medicines Management Committee and have a coordinating role in ensuring the Committee's work plan is delivered efficiently, ensuring all Medicines Management Polices, Guidelines, Protocols are reviewed and updated in a timely and robust manner to ensure that content reflects current national guidance and evidence-based best practice.
You will also ensure associated assurance monitoring is undertaken and submitted to the committee to assure of compliance with and effectiveness of these medicines management documents.
You will deliver medicines management related projects to further advance and support the medicines management strategy and medicines optimisation agenda.
You will be the Pharmacy lead for Patient Group Directions (PGDs) ensuring National Standards and NICE guidance are met
You will be the pharmacy lead for medicine related audits to include POMH and other national audits in addition to internal trust audits. You will be the AMaT superuser for the pharmacy department.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Details
Date posted
24 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
55,690 to 62,682 a year pa pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
270-TG311-CORP-A
Job locations
Berrywood Hospital
Duston
Northamptin
NN5 6UD
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document. Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development
• MPharm degree, or equivalent pharmacy qualification
• Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience
Essential

• Post registration experience within the NHS care setting
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of data collection, analysis and report writing. This will include analytical and problem-solving skills, interpretation of a range of options and assessment of data reports.
• Experience of teaching, mentoring and tutoring
• Experience of engaging and communicating effectively with people at all levels. Able to build constructive relationships with good communication skills.
• Understanding of medicines management processes and experience of developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures
• Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit

Desirable

• Knowledge of current national quality and patient safety improvement priorities relevant to medicines
• Management qualification relevant to the NHS
• Experience in variety of settings (e.g. primary care/secondary/ community/ health and justice) and/ or leadership role.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development
• MPharm degree, or equivalent pharmacy qualification
• Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience
Essential

• Post registration experience within the NHS care setting
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of data collection, analysis and report writing. This will include analytical and problem-solving skills, interpretation of a range of options and assessment of data reports.
• Experience of teaching, mentoring and tutoring
• Experience of engaging and communicating effectively with people at all levels. Able to build constructive relationships with good communication skills.
• Understanding of medicines management processes and experience of developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures
• Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit

Desirable

• Knowledge of current national quality and patient safety improvement priorities relevant to medicines
• Management qualification relevant to the NHS
• Experience in variety of settings (e.g. primary care/secondary/ community/ health and justice) and/ or leadership role.

Skills Required