Regional Chief Pharmacist
NHS EnglandYork / Newcastle / Leeds / Darlington / Rotherham, North East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with NHS England based in York / Newcastle / Leeds / Darlington / Rotherham. The advertised salary is £112,782 to £129,783. Applications close on 11 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Following the restructure of regional offices of NHS England, the North East & Yorkshire Regional Team are now looking to fill a number of senior clin...
The successful candidate will lead the Regional Chief Pharmacist Office Team and work as part of a multidisciplinary team approach within the NHS England Regional Team and act as the regional link with the National Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England's team. They will work closely with the Chief Pharmacists of the four Integrated Care Systems and all secondary care providers and engage with the community pharmacy sector as well as other stakeholders and partners.
The Regional Chief Pharmacist will have a range of responsibilities that cover:
Statutory, regulatory and advisory functions related to the Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer role, the conduct and performance of contractors on the Pharmaceutical List and the investigation of complaints, serious incidents and concerns.
Clinical leadership and advice to the Regional Medical Director on issues of quality and safety on issues related to medicines and pharmacy provision and delivering of actions in relation to anti-microbial resistance
Clinical expertise and knowledge to support regional work on medicines optimisation and pharmacy services, working collaboratively with direct commissioning, primary care contracting, clinical transformation and improvement programmes
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Essential: - Role Functional Requirements
Desirable: - Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Essential: - oIn depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following areas: -Regulatory framework for pharmacy and medicines, and experience of managing complex professional regulatory issues -Pharmacy practice and education policy -Safety systems, including reporting and monitoring systems and associated policies / guidelines -Quality Assurance and improvement methods and their application
Essential: - Credibility across professional and organisational boundaries and proven ability to gain support from senior managerial, commissioning, medical and academic colleagues, chief pharmacists and senior pharmacists in primary and secondary
Essential: - Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
How this role compares
We hold 366 NHS vacancies in North East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays more than about 94% of them.
There are 11,611 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 605 of them in North East.
You have 6 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 30 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
NHS England has 32 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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