Lead Women’s and Children Pharmacist (Frimley site)
Location
Camberley, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/9/2025
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Job Overview
We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and motivated pharmacist to join Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust as our Lead Women’s and Children’s Pharmacist. This is a progressive Band 7 to 8a role, designed to support your professional development whilst giving you the chance to lead, innovate and make a real difference to patient care.
As a dedicated paediatric specialist, you will be at the heart of delivering safe, effective, and compassionate pharmaceutical care to infants, children, and adolescents. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the highest standards of medicines optimisation, as well as educating and supporting both healthcare staff and families.
This post is based at Frimley Park Hospital, but you will have cross-site leadership responsibilities across the Trust.
About You
The successful candidate will:
Main duties of the job
In This Dynamic And Varied Role, You Will
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and motivated pharmacist to join Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust as our Lead Women’s and Children’s Pharmacist. This is a progressive Band 7 to 8a role, designed to support your professional development whilst giving you the chance to lead, innovate and make a real difference to patient care.
As a dedicated paediatric specialist, you will be at the heart of delivering safe, effective, and compassionate pharmaceutical care to infants, children, and adolescents. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the highest standards of medicines optimisation, as well as educating and supporting both healthcare staff and families.
This post is based at Frimley Park Hospital, but you will have cross-site leadership responsibilities across the Trust.
About You
The successful candidate will:
- Be an experienced hospital pharmacist with a strong background in clinical pharmacy.
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge and interest in paediatric and neonatal care.
- Have excellent communication, teaching, and leadership skills.
- Be motivated, confident, and able to inspire others.
- Work effectively within a multidisciplinary team while also leading service delivery.
Main duties of the job
In This Dynamic And Varied Role, You Will
- Provide expert clinical pharmacy input for paediatric and neonatal patients across the Trust.
- Develop and run your own Independent Prescribing clinic.
- Support clinical governance and safe medicines use at the Alexander Devine Hospice, as part of a collaborative and compassionate team.
- Lead and mentor junior pharmacists and pharmacy staff, acting as a role model for best practice.
- Contribute to service development and improvement initiatives across the Women’s and Children’s services.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing and midwifery staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
- To act as a source of expert advice and information on Women and Children’s medicines.
- To participate in the development of Patient Group Directions when required.
- To be responsible for the screening, monitoring and ordering of parenteral nutrition for neonates and paediatric patients
- To cultivate links with tertiary and primary care, and to develop shared care agreements, working with the ICS and NHSE Pharmacist where necessary.
- As a NMP to fulfil this role within the individual’s area of competence, including medicines reconciliation on admission and prescribing of currently prescribed medicines on discharge. This will include prescribing for MCAs (Multi-compartment aids) on FP10s for supply by Community Pharmacists.
- To take an active role in committees relating to specialist area e.g. paediatric clinical governance, Neonatal MDT and the Maternity forum.
- To evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the specialist area.
- To participate in the clinical training of junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and other pharmacy staff acting as an Educational Supervisor or Practice Supervisor
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy degree (Masters level 4 years)
- Registered with GPHC
- Independent prescriber (or intention to become one )
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
- Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent
- MSC or higher degree
- UKCPA membership
- RPS membership
- Formal management qualification
Essential criteria
- Experience of producing guidelines
- Experience of producing drug appraisals
- Experience of managing staff
- Significant post-qualification experience working as a pharmacist in a clinical environment
- Regular experience of providing clinical pharmacy support
- Clinical audit experience
- Teaching /tutoring experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to adapt and cope with challenges
- Applied clinical knowledge
- Excellent IT skills
- Evidence of interest in research
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
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