Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Infectious Diseases / HIV

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Infectious Diseases / HIV

The closing date is 05 February 2026

Due to promotion of the current post holder we are delighted to invite applications to the Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Infectious diseases/ HIV post to deliver a specialised service to our HIV and medical patients at City Hospital.

The post offers an excellent opportunity to work alongside an experienced pharmacy team and the wider HIV, Infectious Diseases and Sexual Health MDTs to develop your specialist knowledge, deliver a high level clinical service, directly support patients attending clinic with their medications and support other service improvements and governance processes as required.

This post also supports the City Medicine inpatient wards for two days per week, providing high quality pharmacy care to inpatients cared for by specialties including respiratory, cardiology, nephrology and stroke rehabilitation.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

To provide a clinical pharmacy service to city medicine wards (respiratory, cardiology, infectious diseases, nephrology, stroke rehab, health care of the older person), offering highly specialist pharmaceutical advice to medical staff, nurses and patients on all aspects of safe and effective use of medicines.

To work alongside the HIV, Infectious Diseases and Sexual Health multidisciplinary team delivering excellent patient care through medicines optimisation. When qualified and appropriately trained, the post holder may also be able to utilise their prescribing skills to do this.

To support HIV patients with their medicines, working directly with the patient to improve adherence, communicate any changes to their medications and ensure appropriate follow up where needed.

To support specialist clinical screening of homecare prescriptions for patient's antiretroviral medications.

To assist the specialist HIV pharmacists with specialty level support roles such as governance, teaching and guidelines. Also to support and work with the HIV Medicines Management Technician.

To deputise for the specialist HIV pharmacist with appropriate support and training.

To be actively involved in quality improvement projects, and governance process.

To support, mentor & line manage junior pharmacists and medicines management technicians.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.

Person Specification Training & Qualifications

• Honours Degree in Pharmacy - B.Pharm /BSc (Pharmacy)/MPharm
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Post-Graduate Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or working towards this or equivalent experience
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Non-medical prescribing

Experience

• Wide previous experience (post registration) of clinical pharmacy
• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting
• Experience in undertaking and reporting/presenting audit/research work at local (Trust) level
• Evidence of Research or project work

Communication & Relationship Skills

• Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal skills.
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams
• Teaching skills

Analytical & Judgement Skills

• Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information
• Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication process
• Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management
• Experience of analysing expenditure

Planning & Organisation Skills

• Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist other to prioritise
• Positive thinker, problem solver

Physical Skills

• Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from internet

Other role specific requirements

• Self-motivated, conscientious, confident, accurate, assertive
• Ability to work alone and make decisions including when participating in senior on call rota.
• Weekend and shift working as per job description
• Commitment to support the Trust's Values

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts