Lead Specialist Pharmacist – HPB and Upper GI Specialties B8a
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,888.00 to £64,880.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £57888.00 - £64880.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 December 2025 |
| Location: | Guildford, GU2 7XX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9384-25-0953 |
Summary
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification Act as a subject matter expert on HPB and Upper GI Surgical patients for the pharmacy department and the wider clinical workforce. Provide clinical pharmacy services to HPB/UGI patients throughout their secondary and tertiary care. Ensuring optimal pharmaceutical care and facilitate the safe effective supply and prescribing of medicines. Attend Consultant led ward rounds and where appropriate be able to act as an independent non-medical prescriber. Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the wider MDT team as required. Identify potential clinical developments to the surgical Triumvirate management team and plan the implantation to ensure that services continue to meet customers requirement and income is sufficient to fund development. Implement local and national pharmaceutical care guidelines with the HPB / Upper GI service in collaboration with clinical colleagues, ensuring that guidelines are available and up dated, and that the wider workforce is kept abreast of new practice or any changes to existing practices. Act as a governance lead on medication issues relating to HPB and Upper GI surgery through attendance at divisional governance meetings and be responsible for actions of issues arising. Undertakes risk assessment and manages these risks as required. Communicate highly complex pharmaceutical information to health professionals, patients and / or carers, adapted to their level of understanding to ensure safe, effective administration of treatment and promote understanding and compliance.