Superintendent Pharmacist
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Milton Keynes, MK6 5LD
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
2 September 2026
2 days left
Job description
Superintendent Pharmacist Department: Pharmacy - Outpatients Band 8b, £66,582 - £77,368 Per annum pro rata Hours: Part time, 22.5 per week, all MKUH r...
Our Pharmacy service has already benefited from significant investment, including a fully refurbished Pharmacy department, a state-of-the-art Aseptic Unit, and a new outpatient dispensary positioned at the heart of the hospital's main entrance and outpatient department. We are now looking for a commercially minded and patient-focused Superintendent Pharmacist to lead, develop and grow this important outpatient pharmacy service.
This role offers a genuine opportunity to shape a developing service in a forward-looking acute hospital. You will ensure the service meets all regulatory and professional requirements while building a high-quality, accessible and sustainable outpatient pharmacy offer for patients, visitors and staff. You will bring strong community pharmacy experience, sound clinical judgement, and the confidence to work closely with prescribers and wider clinical teams to optimise medicines use, deliver value for money and improve patient outcomes.
In return, you will join a supportive, ambitious Pharmacy team at a hospital that is preparing for a once-in-a-generation period of growth. With plans for a new hospital facility, expanded maternity and children's services, additional elective surgical capacity, a new imaging centre and wider site improvements, this is a chance to develop your leadership skills while contributing to the future of healthcare in one of the country's most dynamic cities.
Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting-edge research and education. With a "Good" rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.
As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.
We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state-of-the-art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre. We have just opened the Oak Wards - a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards.
Further investment is underway, including the recently approved Women and Children's Centre, set to open by 2030.
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Qualifications and knowledge
Essential
- BPharm / BSc / MPharm (or equivalent)
- GPhC Registration
- Higher Degree / Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Evidence of CPD
- Post graduate management qualification or equivalent experience
- MRPharmS
- Independent prescribing qualification as a pharmacist
Experience
Essential
- Managerial skills with at least 3 years previous pharmacy management experience
- Commercially aware and understands how to grow and maintain a pharmacy business
- Previous experience as a Superintendent Pharmacist or other senior Pharmacist post
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide patient care
- Experience of audit work
- An awareness of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to the service
- Experience of supervising, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
- Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate team
- IT and presentation skills and report writing
- Meets targets and identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmacy services to patients
- Excellent inter-personal skills, with the ability to liaise and influence senior managers and consultants
- Meets expected levels of practice as identified by others and identifies new areas of practice
- Understands local and national priorities in care and has the ability to reconcile these with local realities
- Demonstrable ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver outcomes
- Integrates research evidence and audit results into practice; documented experience of own research & audit
- Identifies and manages risk
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda
- Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement; manages difficult and ambiguous problems
- Identifies own training needs, actively seeks training opportunities and maintains a portfolio of practice
Skills
Essential
- Works autonomously and can delegate authority appropriately
- Evaluates the quality of own work and can evaluate service quality
- An ability to prioritise a complex workload and work accurately under pressure
Personal and people development
Essential
- Experience of supervising, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
Communication
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence others
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
19 August 2026
Last checked
21 August 2026
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