Lead Pharmacist

Lead Pharmacist focuses on support dispensary staff alongside the pharmacy manager to ensure a safe, efficient, and patient-centred service.

What the role involves

• 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.
• Develop ACTs and ACDs through training and ongoing professional development.
• Provide clear medicines advice to wards, including interactions, side effects, and optimisation.
• 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.

Skills and requirements

• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across Gloucestershire.
• Experience in community pharmacy, primary care, or hospital clinical pharmacy.
• Previous exposure to community hospital or intermediate care settings.
• Join a supportive and fast-growing healthcare organisation.

Confirmed role details

• Interview Process: Includes mandatory trial days.

Additional role context

• 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.
• Play a key role in medicines optimisation, clinical governance, and patient safety across multiple care settings.

Known job details

• Pay: £50,000 – £60,000 per annum