Lead Pharmacist - MedicineNHS

Job summary

Lead Pharmacist - Medicine

37.5 hours per week (Additional late night working, weekend, bank holiday and on call commitments)

Permanent

Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Closing Date: Tuesday 24th November 2026

Interview Date: Thursday 10th December 2026

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an highly motivated, clinically skilled and forward-thinking pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Leadership Team asLead Pharmacist of Medicine.

This is a key leadership role within our clinical pharmacy service, providing strategic, professional and operational leadership across Medicine services supporting both Emergency and Planned Care divisions. You will act as the lead pharmacist for Medicine, delivering highly specialist clinical expertise whilst driving service development, quality improvement, workforce development and medicines optimisation initiatives across the Trust.

Working closely with the Principal Pharmacist, Chief Pharmacist, consultants, nurses and operational teams, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering modern, patient-centred pharmacy services aligned to Trust priorities.

Job description

As Lead Pharmacist - Medicine you will:

• Lead and develop clinical pharmacy services across designated Medicine specialties.
• Provide expert clinical and professional leadership within multidisciplinary teams.
• Act as an Independent Prescriber, delivering advanced patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
• Lead medicines optimisation, service improvement, audit and research programmes.
• Manage and develop specialist and rotational pharmacists.
• Contribute to strategic planning and medicines governance across the organisation.
• Support financial management of medicines expenditure and formulary development.
• Participate as a senior member of the Pharmacy Leadership Team.
• Provide on-call, weekend and bank holiday pharmacy services as part of the departmental rota.

We are seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist who can demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical knowledge within medicine.
• Experience leading and developing pharmacy services.
• Strong people management and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Experience of service improvement, audit and quality governance.
• A passion for education, mentorship and workforce development.

Includes Weekend, Bank Holiday and On-Call Commitments For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme - find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme