Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Ophthalmology: Sponsorship Available

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the pharmacy team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals as a Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Ophthalmology. This newly created post presents a unique opportunity to develop the service supporting excellent patient centred care. Our purpose built modern ophthalmology unit provides state of the art facilities to patients across Lancashire and South Cumbria. This post will provide the chance for a dynamic individual to utilise their leadership and service development skills.

This is an exciting time for clinical services in the pharmacy department, as we implement enhanced roles in the established patient-facing clinical pharmacy team. Our highly specialist pharmacists have dedicated SPA time in education and training, workforce, research, governance and finance, providing valuable experience and opportunity to develop leadership skills.

The use of pharmacist non-medical prescribers is well-established in the department and instrumental in achieving our key performance indicators, so the successful candidate will hold, or be willing to work towards gaining their independent prescribing qualification.

The pharmacy department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust is an innovative and welcoming place to work, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement. We also recognise the importance of the health and well being of our workforce, and we are fully committed to providing flexible working opportunities within our team.

 

Main duties of the job

You will provide a clinical pharmacy services to the ophthalmology directorate, leading the pharmacy team across the speciality to ensure safe, effective and cost effective service delivery. You will work alongside an established team of consultants, specialist nurses and orthoptists to develop a pathway for the provision of treatments in line with local and national prescribing guidelines. You will support the directorate with the biosimilar switch programme in the clinical speciality. In this clinical area of increasing clinical complexity, you will work within the multidisciplinary team to steer safe and effective prescribing and medicines management agenda. You will ensure key performance indicators are achieved and work with the directorate and governance teams to review and manage themes in the safe management of medicines.

You will be integral to the delivery of clinical pharmacy services to our patients, forging relationships within the multidisciplinary team. You will support the delivery of training and education both within, and outside of the pharmacy department. You will be a strong leader and have the ability to motivate, develop and manage others in a positive and supportive working environment within a team that believes this is a great place to work.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Education

Essential

  • MPharm or equivalent
  • Registration with the GPhC
  • Post graduate clinical qualification
  • Qualified Prescribing Pharmacist

Desirable

  • MRPharmS

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Substantial post registration hospital experience with experience in a senior clinical pharmacist role
  • Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a broad range of specialities
  • Evidence of significant, relevant and on-going CPD
  • Service / personnel management / supervision
  • Experience of training others
  • Formulary management
  • Evidence of service development

Desirable

  • Acute Trust/tertiary referral centre experience
  • Experience of project management
  • Experience of audit and research

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).

Closing Date: 25 August 2025

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