Lead Pharmacist for Clinical Services

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Job Overview

We are seeking an exceptional, forward-thinking pharmacist to join our senior pharmacy leadership team at the Royal Gwent Hospital as Lead Pharmacist for Clinical Services . This is a pivotal role providing strategic and operational leadership for clinical pharmacy services across the site-based specialties, while also leading the Health Board’s Clinical Trials and Clinical Informatics Pharmacy Services. You will play a key role in shaping, modernising, and delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmacy services aligned with national standards and organisational priorities.

As a member of the site management team, you will influence service development, lead innovation in clinical informatics, and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes and optimise medicines use.

What We Offer

• A senior leadership role with real influence on patient care and clinical service delivery
• Opportunities to lead innovation and work on All-Wales initiatives
• Collaborative multidisciplinary working environment
• Ongoing professional development and leadership opportunities
• A supportive Health Board committed to excellence and continuous improvement

If you are an ambitious and experienced clinical pharmacy leader looking for your next challenge, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Lead, develop and deliver high-quality clinical pharmacy services across multiple specialties.

Provide leadership and line management to pharmacists and wider pharmacy teams at the Royal Gwent Hospital.

Oversee and develop the ABUHB Clinical Trials Pharmacy Service, secure future investment and ensuring full regulatory compliance.

Drive service redesign and continuous improvement in line with best practice and strategic goals.

Provide expert clinical advice to multidisciplinary teams, contributing to complex patient care decisions.

Lead on medicines optimisation, governance, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.

Develop and implement clinical informatics solutions to support data-driven decision making.

Represent pharmacy at Directorate, Health Board, and All-Wales forums as required.

Contribute to financial stewardship, including monitoring high-cost medicines and delivering efficiency savings.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

• Up-to-date knowledge of pharmacology, therapeutics and principles of medicines management Role of pharmacists at ward level, in the pharmacy department and in the community
• Organisational abilities
• Analytical abilities
• Management/ leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal/ communication skills
• Computer skills
• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
• Ability to build a rapport with patients, students and staff
• Flexible and adaptable to changing demands and situations
• Conscientious, responsible and reliable
• Highly motivated
• Able to function well under pressure
• Enthusiastic
• Innovative
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good with patients

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of patient self-administration systems, one-stop dispensing systems etc.
• Knowledge of quality improvement methodology
• Experiences in utilising QI methods in change management
• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post grad exp in hospital pharmacy
• Recent experience of ward service provision
• Proven ability to work independently at an advanced level
• Proven ability to deliver innovations within service delivery

Desirable criteria

• Experience of management and leadership duties
• Experience of implementing national standards

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Master’s degree in Pharmacy
• Member of GPhC
• Member of RPS
• Postgraduate clinical specialist knowledge - diploma
• CPD

Desirable criteria

• Management qualification
• Non-medical prescriber
• Working towards RPS faculty / credentialling