Principal Pharmacist Children and Families
This Principal Pharmacist role provides strategic and operational leadership for medicines management within Children and Families. The post holder is responsible for delivering and developing high\-quality pharmaceutical care, including independent prescribing, complex clinical decision\-making, and optimisation of medicines for patients. The role leads on formulary management, guideline development, education, audit, research, and service evaluation, while ensuring safe, evidence\-based and cost\-effective use of medicines. It also involves significant contribution to multidisciplinary working, workforce development, and national professional initiatives, alongside oversight of financial governance, risk management, and service improvement. The post holder will act as an expert clinical resource, providing highly specialist advice to healthcare professionals and patients, and supporting innovation and continuous development of pharmacy services.
The post holder will be the Principal Pharmacist, responsible for UHB wide neonatal, paediatric, obstetrics, gynaecology and integrated sexual health (ISH) services, and be responsible for providing a safe and effective clinical pharmacy service to the Specialty and Directorate. They will also provide professional leadership and support to the Children and Families Care Group.
The post holder is responsible for managing, leading, developing and delivering specialist neonatal, paediatric, gynaecology and maternity services across CTMUHB.
They will support the Children and Families staff in the acute sites. Engagement and communication with senior clinical and executive level staff in all sectors will be essential in the delivery and redesign of CTMUHB wide Children and Families services.
The post holder will plan, organise and deliver training and education for undergraduate health professionals and post\-graduate pharmacists, nurses, doctors and pharmacy technicians.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short\-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking \& Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2\) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board, part of NHS Wales, serves a large population across a diverse and beautiful region, steeped in history and heritage. With nearly 13,500 staff, our health board is one of Wales’s largest employers.
Together, we are Team CTM; a workforce dedicated to offering excellent patient care and support to the 450,000 people across our three regions, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We operate three District General hospitals, several community hospitals, primary and community care facilities.
CTM’s location offers the best of South Wales, just 20 minutes from Cardiff’s vibrant city life, the natural beauty of the Brecon Beacons, and the serene coastline at Ogmore. Whether you enjoy lively urban amenities, peaceful countryside, or seaside escapes, our location makes an ideal setting for both work and personal life.
Our CTM 2030 Strategy—Our Health, Our Future—focuses on uniting our region around shared health and wellbeing goals. Our values guide us daily:
- We listen, learn, and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We work together as one team
At CTM, you’ll find a welcoming, team\-oriented workplace that values diversity and compassion, where you can take pride in your work and the difference it makes.
The Principal Pharmacist for Children and Families (Band 8b) holds a senior leadership role responsible for managing, developing and delivering specialist pharmacy services across neonatology, paediatrics, maternity, gynaecology and integrated sexual health within the Health Board. The post holder provides expert clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence\-based pharmaceutical care, including independent prescribing, complex clinical decision\-making and optimisation of medicines use for individual patients. Key responsibilities include leading on formulary management, guideline development, service planning, financial governance and cost\-effective use of medicines, alongside oversight of risk management, incident review and compliance with governance frameworks. The role requires active engagement in multidisciplinary teams, contributing to the management of complex patients, while also leading service improvement, audit, research and innovation across primary and secondary care settings. In addition, the post holder is responsible for workforce development through education, training and mentorship, supporting undergraduate and postgraduate learners as well as the wider pharmacy workforce, and providing strategic input into local and national service development and professional initiatives.
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