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Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Clinical Education

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackpool, FY3 8NR £57,528 – £64,750 a year Permanent Posted 28 August 2026 Apply by 10 September 2026

Home Office register entry: Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool

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Role description

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is a large acute trust with specialities including Tertiary services for Haematology, Cardiology and Adult CF. We are a progressive department of over 150 staff providing a comprehensive and well-developed pharmacy service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an individual to work within our Education and Training team to provide a comprehensive and high-quality clinical medicine and therapeutics education and training programme. Although the emphasis will be on medical education there will be scope to be involved with all clinical education in conjunction with the Lead pharmacist.

This key post within the department requires an enthusiastic pharmacist with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a sound clinical knowledge.

This post is attractive to the candidate with a keen interest in developing services and shaping future healthcare professionals whilst maintaining their clinical skills.

This role has 2 main components incorporating an extensive involvement in the medical education team and a strong clinical ward commitment.

About us

The medical education role needs an individual with experience in developing and delivering training to healthcare professionals in a variety of formats and settings. They need to be motivated and enthusiastic about the benefits of clinical pharmacist involvement in medical education, understand the drivers but also the external pressures of this role. It will involve working with the lead pharmacist, Trust Clinical Education team, the wider regional groups and HEIs to develop and deliver the highest quality teaching and training to our medical staff both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The candidate will be able to design and develop teaching in areas such as safe prescribing, medicines optimisation, therapeutics and calculations. There is also an additional benefit of helping medical trainees to develop multidisciplinary working.

There are exciting opportunities to work with the lead pharmacist to develop the pharmacist role within interprofessional education in the Trust.

Details

Date posted

28 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum plus £2400 per annum emergency duty committment

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

382-NBC107-26

Job locations

Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Whinney Heys Rd

Blackpool

FY3 8NR

United Kingdom


Job description

Job responsibilities

It is expected you will have a clinical ward commitment to maintain and develop your skills within a speciality. This will also allow you to develop trainee and junior pharmacists whilst they are on rotation through that speciality. Opportunities to take on Trainee pharmacist supervision and mentoring for clinical diploma students is also available.

Depending on the individual there may be potential to study for a further post grad teaching or clinical qualifications.

Person Specification

essential

Essential

  • minimum 3 years experience
  • post graduate clinical diploma or equivalent
  • acute hospital experience
  • GPHC Registration

Desirable

  • Teaching experience

essential

Essential

  • experience of working in a multidisciplinary team

essential

Essential

  • Good verbal and written communication
  • Good time management
  • Pro-active and innovative

Desirable

  • Ability to organise, influence and motivate others

essential

Essential

  • Able to prioritise workload and work accurately under pressure
  • demonstrable commitment to professional development

Desirable

  • understands local and national priorities for medical and pharmacy education

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Whinney Heys Rd

Blackpool

FY3 8NR

United Kingdom


Employer's website

https://www.blackpoolteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/

Last verified against our ingestion on 1 September 2026; sponsor register dataset 2026-08-25.