Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Gastroenterology

Lead the strategic development, delivery and evaluation of specialist clinical pharmacy services within Gastroenterology. Provide expert clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation support for patients with gastrointestinal and hepatology conditions, ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based use of medicines. Lead, manage and develop the Gastroenterology pharmacy team, ensuring the provision of a high-quality, patient-centred service. Work collaboratively with gastroenterology consultants, hepatologists, specialist nurses, dietitians and the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient care across inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory settings. Act as an independent prescriber, undertaking medication review, medicines reconciliation, initiation and optimisation of treatment, and prescribing within scope of practice. Lead service improvement initiatives, development of business cases, and implementation of national guidance and best practice standards relevant to gastroenterology and hepatology services. Develop, review and implement policies, guidelines and prescribing pathways relating to the management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases. Monitor and manage medicines expenditure, biosimilar uptake, high-cost medicines and cost improvement programmes within the speciality. Lead on medicines governance, including investigation of medicines-related incidents, complaints, audits and quality improvement projects, ensuring learning is embedded into practice. Develop and deliver education and training programmes for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, medical staff, nursing staff and other healthcare professionals. Lead, participate in and publish practice research, audit and service evaluation projects relevant to gastroenterology and hepatology. Represent pharmacy at gastroenterology, hepatology and Trust-wide committees, contributing to service planning and strategic decision-making.