Band 8a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist- Out of Hospital Services: Sponsorship Available

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you ready to shape the future of pharmacy outside hospital walls? Join our dynamic Out of Hospital Services Pharmacy team at UHB, where we’re leading the shift in care delivery from hospitals to community settings. You’ll play a key role in ensuring safe, effective and person-centred medicines optimisation across services focussing on intermediate care but including virtual wards, district nursing and community clinics.

You’ll work alongside three specialist pharmacists and a specialist pharmacy technician, supported by a culture that values professional growth, innovation and collaboration. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist with a passion for improving medicines use in older people, particularly managing polypharmacy, deprescribing and multidisciplinary care.

We invest heavily in our people — offering access to independent prescribing, RCPharm credentialing, research internships, leadership programmes and more. You’ll also benefit from flexible working opportunities, wellbeing initiatives, and access to NHS and local discounts. If you want to make a tangible difference to patient care while developing your clinical expertise and leadership, this is the perfect role for you.

Main duties of the job

This is a highly clinical role for a pharmacist who thrives on multidisciplinary teamwork and complex patient care. You will provide expert medicines optimisation across intermediate care facilities but also assist falls and virtual ward services, district nursing teams and community-based clinics.

Your daily practice will include:

* Delivering direct patient-facing pharmacy input for bedded intermediate care patients.

* Attending MDT meetings, ward rounds and clinical reviews.

* Providing expert medicines advice, governance, and education to the wider team.

* Supporting development of local protocols, pathways, audits and service improvements.

* Contributing to the design of safe, efficient prescribing systems and community pathways.

You will act as a clinical leader, representing pharmacy within the Out of Hospital Services CDG, ensuring medicines management and optimisation are embedded in service design and delivery.

We are seeking a proactive, adaptable pharmacist with advanced clinical reasoning, strong communication skills and a passion for supporting older people to achieve better outcomes from their medicines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • * MPharm degree or equivalent.
  • * GPhC registration.
  • * Clinical diploma (or equivalent qualification /
  • experience) or higher Pharmacy degree.
  • * Qualified as an independent non-medical prescriber.

Desirable

  • * Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy.

Experience

Essential

  • * Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in complex clinical pharmacy settings.
  • * Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team.
  • * Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care.
  • * Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients.
  • * Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Desirable

  • * Experience in older people services.
  • * Experience of managing medicines expenditure for a specialty.

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).

Closing Date: 20 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit uhb.tal.net.