Lead Pharmacist - Hospital Pharmacy

Lead Pharmacist – Hospital Pharmacy

Location: Gloucester (with travel across community hospitals in Gloucestershire)

Contract: Full Time

Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 per annum

Employer: Fairview Health

Interview Process: Includes mandatory trial days

About Fairview Health

Fairview Health is a rapidly expanding healthcare organisation dedicated to delivering safe, efficient, and compliant access to medicines across NHS Trusts, Unscheduled Care, and Primary Care settings.

We operate a growing network of pharmacies and WDA-licensed premises across London, Gloucester, the West Midlands, and the North of England, supporting Community and Mental Health Trusts with high-quality pharmaceutical services.

About the Role

We are seeking a motivated and clinically confident Lead Pharmacist to join our Hospital pharmacy team in Gloucester.

This is a hybrid leadership role combining dispensary leadership with ward-based clinical pharmacy services across community hospitals in Gloucestershire. You will play a key role in medicines optimisation, clinical governance, and patient safety across multiple care settings.

This role is ideal for a pharmacist who enjoys variety, autonomy, and clinical leadership responsibility while working closely with multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

Dispensary Leadership

• Lead and support dispensary staff alongside the Pharmacy Manager to ensure a safe, efficient, and patient-centred service
• Clinically screen and accuracy check prescriptions using strong clinical judgement
• Support and develop ACTs and ACDs through training and ongoing professional development
• Provide clear medicines advice to wards, including interactions, side effects, and optimisation
• Experience with SystmOne is desirable

Community Hospital Clinical Support

• Lead and develop the pharmacy clinical team (Pharmacists and Technicians), providing feedback and operational insight to support service improvement
• Conduct medicines reconciliation on admission, discharge, and transfers of care
• Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds, contributing expert pharmaceutical input
• Deliver structured clinical medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy or long-term conditions
• Identify, resolve, and escalate medication-related risks and clinical issues
• Support safe prescribing practices and medicines governance across sites

Person Specification

Essential

• GPhC registered Pharmacist
• Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently across multiple sites
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across Gloucestershire

Desirable

• Experience in community pharmacy, primary care, or hospital clinical pharmacy
• Previous exposure to community hospital or intermediate care settings

Why Join Fairview Health? xwzovoh

• Join a supportive and fast-growing healthcare organisation
• Enjoy a varied role combining leadership, clinical practice, and service development
• Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities
• Make a real impact on patient care across Gloucestershire

Interview Process – Trial Days Required

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to trial days, including:

Dispensary Assessment

• Accuracy checking exercises
• Integration into live dispensary workflow

Team Interaction Assessment

• Communication and professionalism
• Adaptability and clinical problem-solving

These sessions ensure mutual fit between candidate, role, and team.

Find out more about the daily tasks, overall responsibilities, and required experience for this opportunity by scrolling down now.

Apply Today

If you are a clinically confident and motivated Lead Pharmacist ready to take ownership of dispensary leadership and community hospital pharmacy services, we would love to hear from you.

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