Senior Lead Pharmacist - Clinical Services & Formulary

Working closely with the Associate Chief Pharmacist and multidisciplinary teams, you will play a key role in advancing clinical pharmacy services, improving patient flow, and embedding a culture of quality, safety and continuous improvement. You will also represent the Trust across local partnerships, contributing to system-wide medicines optimisation and strategy.

This role offers a unique opportunity to combine clinical leadership, strategic influence and innovation to deliver meaningful improvements in patient care and medicines use.

Main duties of the job

You will provide senior clinical leadership across pharmacy services, working collaboratively with clinical teams to optimise prescribing, improve patient outcomes and enhance medicines safety. A key focus of the role is leading the Trust formulary, including oversight of Drug and Therapeutics Committee processes, ensuring alignment with national guidance and driving consistency in prescribing practice.

You will influence medicines optimisation and expenditure across the organisation, using data and clinical expertise to support value-based prescribing and delivery of financial targets. Working with finance, governance and operational teams, you will lead initiatives that improve efficiency, reduce unwarranted variation and support high-quality care.

The role also includes responsibility for clinical governance and medicines safety, contributing to risk management, incident learning and quality improvement programmes. You will support the development of clinical guidelines, policies and systems that underpin safe and effective medicines use.

As a senior leader, you will contribute to workforce development, supporting and developing pharmacy staff while fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement. You will also play an active role in service transformation and represent pharmacy at Trust and system-level forums.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our "CARE" values:Compassionate,Aspirational,Resourceful,Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.