The closing date is 21 June 2026
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Job summary
Band 8A Specialist Pharmacist – Acute Medicine
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated pharmacist to join the Acute Medicine Pharmacy Team at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
This role will provide advanced clinical pharmacy leadership and specialist pharmaceutical care across Acute Medicine services, supporting the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care within a fast-paced acute hospital environment.
The post holder will work closely with multidisciplinary teams across Acute Medical Unit (AMU), Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), Emergency pathways and medical wards to optimise medicines use, support timely patient flow and contribute to service transformation initiatives across the Trust.
The successful candidate will play a key role in advancing clinical pharmacy practice, supporting prescribing governance, developing workforce capability and driving quality improvement aligned with Trust and national priorities.
This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist with strong clinical and leadership skills who is passionate about acute care, medicines optimisation and innovation within hospital pharmacy services.
Job responsibilities
- Deliver highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to Acute Medicine patients.
- Provide expert medicines optimisation advice to medical, nursing and pharmacy teams.
- Support early clinical screening, discharge facilitation and patient flow initiatives.
- Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds and clinical decision-making.
- Support safe and effective prescribing practices, including independent prescribing where applicable.
- Lead and contribute to service development, audit, governance and quality improvement projects.
- Support education, supervision and development of pharmacists, trainee pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
- Contribute to medicines safety initiatives and implementation of Trust policies and national guidance.
- Work collaboratively with operational pharmacy teams to support safe and efficient service delivery.
- Participate in late duties, weekend, bank holiday and on-call rotas as required.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Master Degree in Pharmacy
- Member of GPhC
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- Independent Prescriber
Desirable
- Member of UKCPA
- member of RPhS
- Postgraduate qualification in leadership , eg, MBA or Level 5/6 Senior Leadership
- Formal Training in QI methodologies
Knowledge and Expereince
Essential
- Extensive Hospital Pharmacy Experience
- Experience in working as IP
- Experience in clinical governance
- Experience of contributing to service development, quality improvement, or implementation of new ways of working
- Ability to supervise, support and develop junior staff
Desirable
- Experience of managing or coordinating clinical pharmacy services or workload
- Experience of contributing to guideline, SOP or pathway development
- Experience of working across primary-secondary care interfaces
- Experience of medicines optimisation related to frailty, polypharmacy and deprescribing
- Experience of involvement in research, audit, or practice-based publication
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
