Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist - Neonates and Women's

Job summary

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for babies, women and families?

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an ambitious and compassionate pharmacist to join our Women's and Children's Pharmacy Team as a Specialist Pharmacist for Neonates and Women's Services.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop specialist practice within one of the UK's largest maternity and neonatal services within a leading NHS teaching trust. With a primary focus on neonatal care, you will support a diverse and complex service, including our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), caring for premature and critically unwell babies requiring highly specialised medicines optimisation and multidisciplinary care.

Working alongside expert neonatologists, neonatal nurses, advanced practitioners and pharmacy colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines for some of the most vulnerable patients in the NHS. From supporting extremely premature infants requiring intensive care to optimising medicines use across the neonatal pathway, you will help improve outcomes from the very start of life.

You will influence neonatal medicines optimisation, lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, contribute to education and workforce development, and support research and innovation. This is an exceptional opportunity to develop specialist clinical expertise while making a lasting impact on babies, women and families.

Main duties of the jobThis is a cross-site role based at Heartlands Hospital, delivering specialist clinical pharmacy services across neonatal and women's services within University Hospitals Birmingham.

You will deliver specialist pharmaceutical care for neonatal patients while contributing to the wider women's health agenda. Working across a range of clinical settings, you will contribute to multidisciplinary decision-making (ward rounds), manage complex medicines-related issues and provide specialist advice on the use of high-risk medicines and advanced therapies.

You will lead medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety and clinical governance activities, ensuring practice aligns with national standards, emerging evidence and organisational priorities. The postholder will critically appraise evidence, implement service improvements and evaluate their impact on patient care and outcomes.

A key aspect of the role is service development. You will identify opportunities to improve clinical pathways, lead quality improvement initiatives and contribute to innovative pharmacy services. You will also undertake audit, service evaluation and research activities, helping translate evidence into practice.

As a specialist pharmacist within Women's and Children's Services, you will contribute to the education, supervision and development of pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other healthcare professionals, helping to build capability across the wider workforce.

About us University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people.

As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Details Date posted
20 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 8aSalary
57,528 to 64,750 a year

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time,

Flexible working

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Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way Birmingham West  MidlandsB
15 2TH
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