Band 7 Senior Support Pharmacist – Healthcare of Older People
Closing date: 02 June 2026
Are you an early‑career pharmacist ready to take your next step in a supportive, specialist environment?
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust — one of the UK’s leading NHS Trusts — is recruiting a Senior Support Pharmacist for Healthcare of Older People based at Good Hope Hospital.
This role will enable you to build your clinical expertise and leadership skills within a forward‑thinking pharmacy team. You will deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services on the wards, develop your mentoring and leadership skills, contribute to education and training programmes, and supervise junior and trainee pharmacists — all with strong support around you.
You will have access to post‑graduate clinical pharmacy training and support to undertake or complete non‑medical prescribing, with protected learning time built into your working week.
The role is open to pharmacists who have completed a minimum of 2–3 early‑career rotations and have started, or are working towards, a clinical diploma or the RPS Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway. Applicants with 12 months’ post‑registration hospital experience may be appointed under Annex 21 (75% of Band 7 maximum), progressing to full Band 7 on meeting the relevant milestone.
Come and grow with a team that values your development, your wellbeing, and your ambition.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Key responsibilities
- Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to Healthcare of Older People wards, working with a complex patient group.
- Perform prescription screening, medicines reconciliation, and therapeutic drug monitoring.
- Contribute to audit, research, and service development activities.
- Supervise junior and trainee pharmacists and contribute to education and training for pharmacy, nursing, and medical colleagues.
- Participate in regional initiatives, reporting to the Medicines Management Advisory Group.
- Take on meaningful leadership from day one, supporting the multidisciplinary team.
- Engage in ongoing professional development, including protected learning time for clinical diploma, non‑medical prescribing, and independent prescribing qualification.
Qualifications
- Completed or nearing completion (within the next 6 months) of a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification.
- Willing to work towards a non‑medical prescribing qualification.
- Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Has commenced a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (applicable for Annex 21 roles).
Experience
- Post‑registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, covering a range of specialties.
- Participation in multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated commitment and enthusiasm for providing high‑quality pharmaceutical care.
- Experience teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals or patients.
- Commitment to ongoing CPD.
- Relevant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy.
- Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g., NICE, NSF.
- Knowledge of resources to answer medicines information queries.
- Ability to work with drug budget information.
- Good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues.
Additional criteria
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills.
- Problem‑solving skills.
- Empathy towards patients and carers.
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Ability to manage budgets and deliver cost‑improvement programmes.
- Initiative and ability to work unsupervised when necessary.
- Teaching and mentoring skills, and ability to motivate staff.
- Capability to interact with clinical and managerial staff.
- Good critical appraisal skills.
- Professional manner.
- Well‑motivated and reliable.
- Calm under pressure.
- Flexibility to travel across all Trust sites as required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check to confirm no prior criminal convictions.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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