Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist - Clinical Pharmacist Educator
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton Coldfield, B75 7RRView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
5 November 2026
5 days leftJob description
Love the wards but get your biggest buzz from watching someone else's clinical reasoning click into place? This role lets you do both - properly. We'r...
Your week splits 60/40: clinical leadership on the wards, and planning and overseeing undergraduate placements and projects on site.
As lead pharmacist, you'll run day-to-day clinical pharmacy services on your wards - screening prescriptions, reconciling medicines, interpreting therapeutic drug levels and, once qualified, prescribing. You'll represent pharmacy to your specialty, drive service developments and line-manage pharmacists, technicians, assistants and trainees.
As Clinical Practice Educator, you'll lead practice-based placements at UHB for Aston University pharmacy students, contribute to placement-linked assessment, help design placement learning with the university and supervise final-year projects. You'll also be a line manager and educational supervisor for early careers pharmacists and mentor to rotational pharmacists.
We're looking for an experienced hospital pharmacist with a postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent experience), confidence teaching others and genuine enthusiasm for education.
- A defined education role with real influence, not a token add-on
- Leadership and line management experience in a supportive clinical team
- Protected learning time built into your working week
- Support toward non-medical prescribing (NMP), if not already qualified
- Health, wellbeing and family benefits, including NHS discounts at retailers, restaurants and leisure facilities
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Qualifications
Essential
- *4 year vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
- Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
Essential
- *Significant post-registration hospital pharmacy experience
- *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
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in broad range of subjects
- *Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
- *Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
- *Able to work with drug budget information
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of pharmacy clinical education and current issues
- *Previous involvement in clinical trials
Additional Criteria
Essential: - *Professional manner; - *Well-motivated and reliable; - *Able to work with all grades of staff; - *Capacity to work calmly under pressure
How to apply
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First seen
23 October 2026
Last checked
23 October 2026
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