Clinical Pharmacist (Specialist)

University Hospital Southampton NHS FT; Southampton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist. The post offers a permanent contract in a leading NHS trust renowned for patient care and education. You will join a supportive team with opportunities for mentoring, research, and student training.

The role focuses on clinically-focused pharmaceutical advice, medicines safety, and improving patient outcomes across multiple specialties, with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent is essential.
• GPhC registration or eligibility is essential.
• Experience in medicines information/advice is desirable.
• Experience with clinical pharmacy services and audits is desirable.
• Experience in teaching and tutoring is desirable.
• Understanding of healthcare priorities and political agendas is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide a clinically-focused pharmacy service and advise clinicians across care settings.
• Support medicines safety and improve patient care through expert advice.
• Mentor trainees and support education and research activities.
• Deliver patient-focused advice via medicines helpline and on wards.

Skills

Medicines information

Clinical pharmacy services

Foundation framework

Audits and evaluation

Teaching and tutoring

Healthcare priorities

Education

Master’s degree in pharmacy

GPhC registration

Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

MRPharmS or equivalent

Job description

Job Overview

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist (Specialist)

Contract Type: Permanent

Main duties of the job

As part of our team, you will solving medicine-related clinical problems across a wide array of clinical specialties.

Our service is a recognised centre of excellence, and unique to southern England. Our working environment means there’ll always be senior clinical pharmacists on hand when you need them. We are well known for being a friendly supportive team, and we’ll support your development through mentoring and training designed to meet your individual needs.

All our pharmacists have short and long-term projects on the go, including training and supervising trainee pharmacists, practice research, and web publications. It’s a great way to build your CV with higher level experience in a way that is not available to many other band 7 pharmacists.

Our award-winning NHS website www.medicineslearningportal.org is used throughout the UK and 94% of pharmacists say it improves their clinical decisions.

Working for our organisation

As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.

Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 30% lower than London and 17 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a very clinically-focused service, and advise doctors, nurses, and pharmacists in primary and secondary care how to treat their patients safely and well.

We also operate a busy patient helpline, so you will have the satisfaction of regularly advising our Trust’s patients about their medicines. Feedback from our enquirers shows that our clinical advice is extremely valued and improves patient care.

We also counsel and advise patients after they’ve left our hospital via the Trust’s medicines helpline. This is a busy and professionally satisfying role that gives you patient contact throughout the day, even when you aren’t on your wards.

You’ll be advising on (and therefore learning about) a complete range of clinical specialities, and the clinical skills you’ll be honing are completely transferable to other areas of pharmacy. Whilst clinical problem solving is hugely important, we will equip you with many more skills to become a well-rounded and confident pharmacist.

If you’re a band 6 pharmacist who is looking for the next challenge, or a band 7 pharmacist who wants to take their clinical skills to the next level, then this is the role for you.

Person specification

Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience

Essential criteria

• Master’s degree in pharmacy
• GPhC registration
• Sound knowledge of medicines information/advice
• Sound knowledge of clinical pharmacy services
• Meets Foundation framework/ GLF competencies or equivalent
• Audit and evaluative work
• Sound understanding of healthcare priorities and political agendas
• Experience of teaching and tutoring

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience
• MRPharmS or equivalent
• Working towards RPS Advanced Core portfolio submission or equivalent
• Preparation of prescribing guidelines

Trust Values

Essential criteria

• Patient First
• Working Together
• Always Improving