Clinical Pharmacist - Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Clinical Pharmacist - Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

The closing date is 16 December 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join the Inflammatory Bowel Disease team at the University Hospital of Llandough.

The post holder will have the opportunity to provide clinical pharmacy services and medicines management to patients of the highly specialised Inflammatory Bowel Disease service.

The post holder will be supported in developing their advanced practice with support from the lead pharmacist for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the wider multi disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

This is a brand new post with has been developed with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease service to ensure we can deliver safe and effective medicines to IBD patients within CAVUHB. There have been many advances in treatment options within IBD over recent years, which makes it an exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to join and contribute to the IBD service to benefit our IBD patients at CAVUHB.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist, with excellent communication skills who will work well within the multi disciplinary team (MDT).

The role will have responsibility for providing an initiation and surveillance service for all patients on biologics and immunomodulators with supervision including homecare provisions. This would improve medicines optimisation, patient education, safety and compliance. In addition, the pharmacist would help to reduce costs through unnecessary prescribing and dose adjustments with senior support from the IBD team.

Working closely with the MDT, you will develop your role as a specialist pharmacist in IBD with supervision, training and support from the lead IBD pharmacist who provides specialist pharmacist input to the IBD MDT and runs pharmacist led biologic clinics.

Your professionalism, excellent inter personal skills and enthusiasm will equip you to be a valued contributor to our service and to develop to be a key member of our wider IBD team.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10 year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Member of the GPhC
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Post graduate clinical qualification or anticipated within 3 months

Experience

• Post registration hospital pharmacy experience

Skills

• Demonstrates understanding of essential skills needed for role (e.g. IT skills, knowledge of therapeutics)
• Demonstrates understanding of desirable skills needed (eg leadership, organisation)

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.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board