Band 7 - Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Isle of Wight NHS Trust; Carisbrooke; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking experienced pharmacists to join their clinical pharmaceutical services team. The successful candidates will offer expert advice on medicines management and work to ensure safe prescribing practices. They will also engage in audits and service improvement initiatives, driving enhancements in patient safety and care quality. Qualifications include a Master of Pharmacy degree and experience in a hospital pharmacy setting.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Involvement in clinical audits

Participation in service improvement initiatives

Qualifications

• Completed general level framework competency training or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
• Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice on medicines management.
• Support safe and effective prescribing.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary teams to optimize therapeutic outcomes.

Skills

Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge

Ability to work under high concentration

Knowledge of national guidelines

Education

Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree

Current listing on the Pharmacist Register

Diploma in pharmacy practice

Job description

Isle of Wight NHS Trust is seeking experienced and motivated pharmacists to join its clinical pharmaceutical services team. Successful candidates will provide expert advice on medicines management, support safe and effective prescribing, and contribute to multidisciplinary teams to optimize therapeutic outcomes. The position offers opportunities for professional development, involvement in clinical audits, and participation in service improvement initiatives to enhance patient safety and experience.

Main duties of the job

• Act as a pharmacist providing a clinical pharmaceutical service involving specialist/complex/high risk secondary care patients.
• Utilise pharmaceutical expertise, working in partnership with patients, carers and healthcare professionals to minimise medicines-related harm and facilitating medicines optimisation.
• Contribute to the wider pharmacy service in both a clinical and day to day leadership role.
• Be prepared to operate across a range of hours including evening and/or 7 day working, as agreed between post-holders and their line manager.
• Operate in accordance with the Trusts values, mission and written control documents.

About us

Bank Partners is independent provider of NHS staff bank management and outsourced staffing solutions in the UK. Our main focus is on supplying temporary and shift-based healthcare professionals including nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, and non-clinical staff to major NHS and foundation trusts.

We manage in-house bank staff and agency supply, working to fill roster gaps and enhance patient safety through robust workforce planning. By increasing in-house shift fulfillment, we aim to reduce agency spend. We offer dedicated on-site teams that collaborate closely with NHS stakeholders to address and resolve root causes of staffing shortages.

We have operate on three core values,

• Driven by excellence delivering with integrity
• Always by your side providing responsive, reliable support.

Job responsibilities

The purpose of an advanced clinical pharmacist is to provide high quality clinical pharmacy services within the Trust. Post holders are expected to work with their own initiative, within guidelines and directions from the Pharmacy Leadership Team and to supervise wider members of the pharmacy team as required.

Post holders may also have the opportunity to be involved in policy writing, the undertaking and initiation of audits and active involvement in training and development of pharmacy team members and other healthcare professionals.

Person Specification

Experience

• Completed general level framework competency training or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
• Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience.
• Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
• Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience in clinical specialty.
• Able to work at a continuous level of high concentration.

Qualifications

• Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree or equivalent.
• Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
• Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.