Senior Pharmacist

This is a fixed term/secondment post until 31/03/2026.

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

Looking for an exciting opportunity to be part of an ambitious vision for pharmacy services across West Wales?

This is an exciting time to join our team as the profession of pharmacy further evolves its patient-focussed skillset towards the registration of pharmacist prescribers from day one of qualification, and the profession steps up to incorporate prescribing as a regular part of clinical interventions across all patient-facing sectors.

Are you a competent clinician who can utilise your current clinical skillset to mentor and develop pharmacy staff into the front line primary care providers of the future? If you can work within an organisational culture that is willing to stand up and challenge current practice, with the ambition of modernising the way pharmacy services are provided to improve the way that patients access their care, then we have the ideal opening for you to join our senior team.

Main duties of the job

To provide leadership and clinical mentorship in the development of the Health Board's primary care pharmacy services through the support, improvement and advancement of the delivery of all pharmacy practice-based roles.

Be accountable for the development and improvement of patient-facing primary care pharmacy services, leading on the evolution of the current service delivery, focussing on prudent and value based models for delivery.

To optimise patient outcomes by ensuring that medication is prescribed in line with the current guidelines.

Demonstrate the highest level of clinical pharmacy input for patient management through your own practice and mentorship of others to the primary care multi-disciplinary team, driving the awareness of pharmacy's patient-focused clinical involvement forward.

Capture the work that this role undertakes; to demonstrate locally, on a national level, and for publication, how prudent pharmacy working within the primary care team can achieve beneficial outcomes for both individual patients as well as the wider health economy.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
• Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
• providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
• Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
• Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.