Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine and Admissions
Posted about 15 hours ago
Job Description
NHS Band 8a Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours per Week: full time 37.5
Contract Type: Permanent
This role is based at St Mary's Hosp (IOW), Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG, Newport, United Kingdom, PO30 5TG
We are recruiting for a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”.
Permanent opportunities for up to full-time working if desired.
The Pharmacy department which is based out of St Mary’s Hospital is energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) embedded in practice across the Trust and used creatively to enhance clinical practice. This is along with a fully integrated medicines management system which interfaces EPMA seamlessly with dispensing, stock control, and automation/robotics throughout the Trust.
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide leadership within the pharmacy team and across the Trust in clinical areas as required. Working with internal and external stakeholders whilst accountable to the Trust Chief Pharmacist.
Key responsibilities will be:
Leading, co-ordinating, delivering and developing clinical services within admissions across the emergency floor.
Development of policies, procedures, guidelines, risk assessments and audits.
Promoting a culture of medicines safety to minimise harm, optimising learning from incidents and responding to safety alerts.
Supervising, training, and supporting the development of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
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Qualifications
- Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree or equivalent.
- Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
- Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent experience.
- Completed general level framework competency training or equivalent experience.
Experience :
- Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
- Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience.
- Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
- Specialist knowledge and experience in clinical speciality.
Additional Information
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
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Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is one of the largest acute hospital trusts in the country, treating over half a million patients each year. The Trust is the second largest employer in Portsmouth. We provide comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. We also offer some speciality services to a wider catchment of around two million people. Our population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, areas of wealth juxtaposed with real pockets of deprivation, and gaps in life expectancy. Most of our services are provided at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, but we also offer a range of outpatient and diagnostic facilities closer to patients’ homes in community hospital sites and at local treatment centres throughout South East Hampshire, including St Mary's Treatment Centre, Gosport War Memorial Hospital and Petersfield Community Hospital. This LinkedIn page is kept up to date by the Communications Team who can be contacted at [email protected]. You can follow us on Twitter: @QAHospitalNews Do you have any compliments, comments or complaints? Please contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) on: 0800 917 6039 or email: [email protected].
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