Main area: Pharmacy Grade Band 8a. Contract: Permanent. Hours: Full time; Flexible working. 37.5 hours per week (4 day compressed working week). Weekend and bank holiday working. Job ref 208-E1DEAD-25-1.

Employer: Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Site: Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/10/2025 23:59

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Family Services

Band 8a

Job overview

Looking for a new challenge working within a dynamic and friendly team? Look no further!

We have an exciting development opportunity for a Band 8a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to work in the Family Services Care Group at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (part of the Humber Health Partnership). This may be offered as a Band 7-8a progression role depending on experience.

You will undertake a structured process, receiving additional support from the established team at Hull Royal Infirmary, to achieve Advanced Clinical Pharmacist status and, upon successful completion of your objectives, demonstrate high quality acute clinical pharmacy skills, together with leading a team. A ward-based role, working flexibly to deliver activities across 3 major acute sites within the Group. Most of the activities will be at our Grimsby and Scunthorpe hospital sites, and occasional requirements to travel to our Teaching Hospital at Hull Royal Infirmary (depending on service demands) whilst participating in rotas and/or shift working as necessary, including weekend and bank holidays.

Base site will be agreed upon job offer, and travel expenses (or alternative travel arrangements) will be provided for travel between the Group sites. Please note that there are no public transport links between the Group sites; the ability to drive is essential for this role.

We are looking forward to meeting you! Site visits, information and virtual meetings available on request.

Main duties of the job

The post holder would be responsible for providing an advanced clinical pharmacist service within the Family Services Care Group. This role requires excellent organisational and interpersonal skills alongside sound clinical knowledge and relevant experience. We are a successful, innovative and forward-thinking department with patient care at the centre of decision making. We actively use skill mix and role development to enhance job content and quality at all levels of the department. The department is supported by a robust management team, Pharmacy Technician and Pharmacy Support Worker structure that enables our Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to be actively involved in and focus on clinical and professional aspects of patient care. You will be responsible for managing and supervising the duties of Pharmacists, Trainee Pharmacists and ward support technicians within the clinical team.

You will support the Pharmacist Clinical Team Manager in the delivery of the Pharmacy Vision and Values Strategy together with the other Clinical Pharmacy Team Leaders. The Trust has acknowledged the high quality of the services delivered by our clinical teams but we recognise the need for further integration of our pharmacists into clinical specialties to deliver a more strategic perspective of medicines optimisation and improve patient care.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we\'ll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person specification

Professional Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy qualification or proven level of equivalent experience
• GPhC registered as a practicing pharmacist
• Independent Prescriber or willing to become one within 12 months of appointment
• Further qualification in the field

Clinical experience

• Experience in hospital / clinical pharmacy
• Evidence of on-going personal CPD
• Experience in variety of specialties
• Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff or other healthcare professionals

Skills and Knowledge

• Evidence of ability to monitor compliance with Procedures and Protocols
• Experience of autonomous clinical working
• Able to work well as a team member as well as alone
• Experience of electronic prescribing

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Dan Onyeagor
Job title: Pharmacist Clinical Team Manager
Email address: dan.onyeagor2@nhs.net
Telephone number: 03033303942

Additional information

For further information please also contact:

Ann Kristensen

Lead Pharmacist - Family Services

ann.kristensen2@nhs.net

01482 311676