Job Summary
Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist - Gastroenterology

Full-time | Permanent

Are you an experienced and forward-thinking pharmacist looking for your next leadership opportunity in a specialist clinical role? Frimley Health is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and highly skilled pharmacist to join our dynamic Gastroenterology team as a Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care within Gastroenterology, while providing expert clinical leadership across the Trust. Based at Frimley Park Hospital, this post also carries cross-site responsibilities, offering the chance to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and influence service delivery on a wider scale.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

- A Postgraduate Clinical Diploma (or equivalent)
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- Significant post-registration clinical pharmacy experience
- A commitment to continuing professional development and advancing practice within Gastroenterology
- The ability to provide expert advice, lead service improvement, and support the development of pharmacy practice within the speciality

Main duties of the job

• To develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
• To provide clinical pharmacy services to patients within the specialist areas.
• To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
• To support the recruitment, management and development of staff under the postholder.
• To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the directorate.
• To ensure close relations cross-site with the Gastroenterology team at Wexham Park Hospital.
• To attend ward rounds / clinics when appropriate and able.
• To work with the Surgical Lead Pharmacist in the provision and delivery of a TPN service.
• Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed.

About us
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.

Details
Date posted: 09 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: 8a
Salary: £57,888 to £64,880 a year per annum inc HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 151-SL0595
Job locations: Frimley Park Hospital, Portsmouth Road, Frimley, GU16 7UJ

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Pharmacy degree (Masters level 4 years)
• Registered with GPhC
• Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent
• Independent Prescriber (or intention to become one)
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

Desirable

• MSc or higher degree
• UKCPA membership
• RPS membership
• Formal management qualification

Experience
Essential

• 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.

Desirable

• Regular experience of providing clinical pharmacy support
• Clinical audit experience.
• Teaching/tutoring experience

Skills and knowledge
Essential

• Excellent communication skills
• Applied clinical knowledge
• Ability to adapt and cope with challenges
• Organisational skills

Desirable

• Excellent IT skills
• Evidence of interest in research

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Carole Underwood, Principal Pharmacist for Chronic Medicine, carole.underwood3@nhs.net, 03006133752.