Lead Pharmacist for Surgery & Critical Care | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and dynamic pharmacist to join the pharmacy team at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust as the pharmacy lead for the Care Group of Surgery and Critical Care.

You will lead the pharmacy service to the Care Group, working with your team to optimise the pharmaceutical care of patients and ensure high quality evidence-based prescribing. You will be an expert in the management of critically unwell patients and you will be encouraged to work collaboratively with other professionals across the care group to ensure patients receive maximum benefit from their medicines.

This post would be suitable for an experienced 8a that wishes to develop or those already working at 8b level. This post will offer exciting and challenging opportunities that can be tailored by the successful post holder.

To lead a team delivering patient centred medicines optimisation and clinical pharmacy to critical care and surgical patients.

To contribute to the governance agenda within critical care at a senior level by strategically leading, managing and co-ordinating the provision of pharmacy services for critically unwell patients, ensuring high quality, safe and cost-effective care across the care group.

To act as role model at local, regional and national level.

To identify and mitigate risks relating to medicines

To lead and deliver education and training relating to pharmaceutical care and management of the critically unwell and complex surgical patients.

To lead and develop audit, quality improvement and research within the clinical area and publish research outcomes.

To provide expert advice to clinicians regarding medicines for critically unwell patients.

To act as an independent prescriber.

To ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory medicines legislation across the care group

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Ourvisionis to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Ourmissionis to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Ourcarevalues are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

This advert closes on Thursday 14 May 2026