Specialist Pharmacist – Formulary

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and dedicated Pharmacist to join the Formulary Team for 1 year to cover maternity leave.

The role will equip you with newskills and knowledge in processes around formulary, commissioning and introduction of new drugs.

You will focus on the development and management of the formulary and associated prescribing guidance.

You will provide high quality advice and guidance, and influence and implement change relating to medicines use, liaising with a range of health and social care professionals within the trust and region.

You will need good organisational skills, the ability to work on your own initiative as well as excellent communication skills.

Main duties of the job

On behalf of the Trust, you will:o be responsible for contributing to the management of the system-wide medicines formulary, including development, implementation andmaintenance.o Liaise with the relevant senior pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, other allied health professionals and managers to promote safe,evidence based and cost-effective use of medicines.o Provide specialist pharmacist advice and service in relation to formulary matters.o Assist the Principal Pharmacist – Pharmacy Commissioning & Formulary in providing advice to service users on commissioning matters as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Masters level degree in pharmacy.
  • Post-graduate preregistration year.
  • Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • Completed Certificate (Year 1) of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice and studying for completion of year 2 or completed equivalent qualification as assessed by the interview panel.

Desirable

  • Completed year 1 and year 2 of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice)
  • MSc in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)
  • Qualified and registered as an Independent prescriber
  • Risk management training
  • Professional and final accuracy checking
  • Member of the faculty of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (or working towards)

Experience

Essential

  • Moderate post-registration hospital experience including prescription screening in inpatients/outpatients, medicines reconciliation, medicines information, experience of preparative services either TPN/chemotherapy
  • Experienced clinical pharmacist who has covered a range of specialities including elderly care, acute medicine, specialist medicine and surgery
  • Documentation in medical notes.
  • Writing reports
  • Writing or assisting in writing drug policies and guidelines/PGD development
  • Evidence of having conducted a clinical audit

Desirable

  • Recent post-registration hospital experience, ideally including previous experience in a teaching hospital and experience of more than one hospital
  • Experienced clinical pharmacist (at band 7) including one or more of the following neurosciences, paediatrics, critical care, renal, transplant, oncology, haematology
  • Evidence of having written pharmaceutical and/or educational publications.
  • Experience as a personal tutor to a range of staff groups
  • Drug expenditure analysis and reporting
  • Horizon scanning
  • Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management

Knowledge

Essential

  • Good clinical knowledge of drugs and therapeutic trends within general medicine and surgery
  • Knowledge of NICE and NPSA guidance and subsequent examples of local implementation
  • Knowledge of Health care systems and NHS changes
  • Computer literate with experience of Word, Powerpoint and Excel
  • Familiar with the use of a range of visual aids for teaching.
  • Pharmacy computer systems training.

Skills

Essential

  • Good organisation skills/time management
  • Able to prioritise workload and target efforts appropriately
  • Self-motivated and enthusiastic
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to give oral presentations appropriate to the level of the audience including students
  • Able to produce written reports
  • Good consultation skills.
  • Proven ability to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff.
  • Able to work well in a team
  • Ability to listen and act on direction from senior pharmacists
  • Ability to review the pharmaceutical care of patients in a reasonable time frame including medicines reconciliation

Desirable

  • Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
  • Able to produce written support materials for training.
  • Proven ability to teach and train a range of staff groups.

Additional requirements

Essential

  • The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.

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: 2 August 2026

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