Lead Pharmacist, OCIT, Virtual Wards and Direct Access Pathways
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £64,455.00 to £74,896.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2DX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9218-25-0797 |
Summary
Provide strategic leadership for pharmacy services across OCIT, Virtual Wards and Direct Access Pathways, ensuring delivery of safe, effective and patient-focused care. Lead the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services within urgent and emergency care and long-term condition pathways across UHCW NHS Trust. Collaborate with acute and community clinical teams to support early supported discharge, reduce hospital admissions and enable care closer to home. Maintain a visible clinical presence in clinical areas and act as an advanced clinical practitioner, offering highly specialised pharmaceutical advice. Support the implementation of digital prescribing tools and other innovations that enhance safe and effective medicines use across care boundaries. Develop, deliver and monitor medicines optimisation strategies and clinical guidelines in line with national policy and local Trust priorities. Oversee audit, evaluation and key performance monitoring within ED, Acute Medicine and virtual ward pharmacy services, reporting outcomes to Trust and system stakeholders. Lead and support training initiatives for pharmacy and wider clinical teams, ensuring workforce development aligns with current service needs. Identify and implement cost-effective prescribing practices and contribute to delivery of Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs) and other strategic priorities. For further details of the role please see the attached job description.