Lead Pharmacist Gastroenterology | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£57,888 - £64,880 per annum inc HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Frimley, GU16 7UJ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Jul 2026
Closing date:	9 Aug 2026

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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 aBand 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 atFrimley Park Hospital, this post also carriescross-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:

• APostgraduate Clinical Diploma(or equivalent)

• Independent Prescribing qualification

• Significant post-registration clinical pharmacy experience

• A commitment tocontinuing professional developmentand advancing practice within Gastroenterology

• The ability to provide expert advice, lead service improvement, and support the development of pharmacy practice within the speciality

• 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.

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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For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents

This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jul 2026

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