Associate Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services
| Posting date: | 12 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 April 2026 |
| Location: | Plymouth, PL6 8DH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9216-26-0415 |
Summary
1. Leadership and Workforce Management Provide strategic and operational leadership to a clinical pharmacy workforce of approximately 72 staff, including Lead Pharmacists, Advanced Specialists, Specialists, Rotational Pharmacists and Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technicians.Provide professional oversight for 2025 trainee pharmacists and preregistration pharmacy technician trainees.Directly line manage Lead Clinical Pharmacists across all specialtybased clinical pharmacy teams.Develop the clinical pharmacy workforce, supporting advanced practice, independent prescribing and consultant pharmacist development.Foster an inclusive, supportive and highperformance culture across clinical pharmacy services. 2. Operational Delivery of Clinical Pharmacy Services Provide operational oversight for clinical pharmacy services supporting a 1,100bed tertiary teaching hospital, ensuring responsive, safe and efficient delivery across all specialties and highacuity pathways.Ensure effective deployment of staff to support patient flow, medicines reconciliation, discharge optimisation and reduction of medicinesrelated harm.Ensure services adapt appropriately to operational pressures, system escalation and organisational priorities. 3. Financial and Resource Management Act as budget holder for the clinical pharmacy workforce portfolio (circa £4.7 million), with responsibility for pay and nonpay expenditure.Influence and optimise multimillionpound medicines expenditure through advanced clinical decisionmaking and targeted optimisation interventions.Lead or contribute to business planning, including development of business cases for service redesign, workforce changes, digital developments and pathway improvement. 4. Quality, Safety and Clinical Governance Provide senior clinical assurance for the safety, quality and compliance of clinical pharmacy services, ensuring alignment with legislation, national standards and Trust governance frameworks.Lead identification, escalation and mitigation of clinical risks within the clinical pharmacy portfolio.Ensure systematic learning from incidents, audits and external recommendations.Support Trustwide medicines optimisation priorities and contribute to safe, effective use of medicines across all services. 5. Research, Evaluation and Quality Improvement Promote and support research, audit and Quality Improvement activities across clinical pharmacy teams.Embed a culture of evidencebased practice, evaluation, and innovation within clinical services.Enable clinical teams to engage with academic partners and national initiatives to strengthen research activity. 6. Medicines Optimisation and Sustainability Provide expert pharmaceutical leadership to support safe, effective and valuebased use of medicines across the organisation.Lead initiatives to reduce medicines waste, improve value, support highimpact prescribing changes and deliver medicines optimisation priorities.Promote environmentally responsible use of medicines and support actions aligned with the Trusts net zero and sustainability ambitions. 7. Collaboration and System Leadership Work collaboratively with senior clinical, managerial, operational and financial colleagues to ensure clinical pharmacy services support organisational and ICS priorities.Represent clinical pharmacy services at internal, system, regional or national forums.Contribute to Pharmacy Senior Leadership Team priorities, including departmental strategy, workforce planning and cultural development. Please see the full Job Description and Person Specification for detailed responsibilities.