Lead Pharmacist - Anticoagulant Services, hpw

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (An on call service to the Trust is provided by all pharmacists. Work on rotational weekend, late night, on-call and Bank Holiday rotas as appropriate.) Job -

Employer Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
- Pharmacy Department Town BRADFORD Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 18/10/2026 23:59

Closing Date: 18.10.26

Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 19.10.26

Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 30.10.26

If you are an experienced pharmacist with a special interest in anticoagulation and a drive to deliver outstanding clinical services, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Lead Pharmacist to join our team and provide clinical leadership across our anticoagulation services.

This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist who is passionate about improving patient outcomes, optimising medicines use and developing high-quality services.

You will play a key role in leading and developing the service, ensuring the delivery of safe, evidence-based and person-centred care to patients requiring anticoagulation.

You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, healthcare professionals and patients to optimise anticoagulant therapy, promote best practice and drive continuous service improvement.

Provide clinical and professional leadership for anticoagulation services.

Support the safe and effective use of anticoagulants.

Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of anticoagulation pathways and service improvements.

Provide expert advice and education to healthcare professionals, patients and carers.

Promote medicines optimisation, patient safety and adherence to relevant guidelines and policies.

Work collaboratively with medical, nursing, pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams.

Support audit, quality improvement and clinical governance initiatives.

Contribute to the education, training and development of pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals.

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We are one team

We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.

CLINICAL

Provide, lead and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the specialist area in line with patient and departmental needs, to ensure the delivery of a high quality, patient centred and effective clinical pharmacy service.

Contribute effectively to patient care as part of the multidisciplinary team, to make proactive interventions in individual patient’s therapy and to provide information on drug related issues and to act as the lead pharmacy contact for the specialist area.

Contribute to the multidisciplinary identification, review and development and ratification of treatment guidelines and policies in the specialist area, in order to promote safe and evidence-based patient care.

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Lead and manage the work of all the pharmacists, clinical pharmacy technicians and medicines optimisation assistants working in the specialist area, to maintain and further develop a high-quality pharmacy workforce.

Participate in and deliver to line managed staff, the departmental individual performance review programme to ensure that staff performance and development is maintained as a high priority in line…