Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Leigh on Sea; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for a Rotational Clinical Pharmacist in Leigh on Sea. This role involves providing clinical services across specialties, ensuring safe patient care, and contributing to professional development within a collaborative team. Candidates must possess registration as a Pharmacist and relevant clinical qualifications. The position offers career growth opportunities and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Access to ongoing training and mentorship

Friendly and supportive team environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Recent pharmacy experience within the last 3 months.
• NHS Hospital Pharmacy experience.
• Experience in final checking as a Pharmacist.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service to wards and outpatients.
• Attend clinical meetings and document interventions.
• Promote the safe use of drugs and counsel patients.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Education

Registration as Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Diploma in Clinical/General Pharmacy Practice

Evidence of Hospital-based clinical education/training

Tools

Pharmacy Wellsky computer system

Job description

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 19 November 2025.

We're delighted to offer two exciting opportunities for motivated and dynamic Clinical Pharmacists to join our friendly and forward‑thinking pharmacy team at Southend Hospital, part of the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the delivery of a high‑quality clinical pharmacy service, working within a supportive and collaborative team that values innovation, professional growth, and patient‑centred care. Our pharmacists are a welcoming and proactive group, always striving to enhance ways of working to benefit both patients and colleagues.

As a Clinical Pharmacist, you'll rotate across a variety of specialist areas, including General Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Medicine for the Elderly, and Technical Services, gaining invaluable experience across the Trust. You'll also contribute to the provision of our on‑call service, helping to ensure continuity of excellent care.

To succeed in this role, you'll bring enthusiasm, flexibility, and strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships across multidisciplinary teams.

In return, you'll benefit from a range of career development opportunities, with access to ongoing training and mentorship both within Southend Hospital and across the wider Trust.

If you're looking for a role where your expertise, ideas, and ambition will be valued and supported -- we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge service, outpatients, technical services unit and other service users.

Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.

Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.

Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.

Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.

Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.

Take part in the emergency On‑call Pharmacist rota working alone as the On call Pharmacist, providing medicines information, advice and supply out of hours and sourcing of urgently‑required drugs from external suppliers.

To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Governance team with the medicines optimisation and governance agenda.

Ensure clinical incidents e.g. dispensing or administration errors are reported promptly according to current risk management procedures.

Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.

Facilitate implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g. NICE.

Keep accurate patient medication and drug issue records using the Pharmacy Wellsky computer system.

Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward‑based technicians.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Job responsibilities

The Pharmacy department has a 'can do' attitude and strives to provide the best service possible at all times to our patients and our colleagues. The pharmacy vision is to be a 'service without walls', integrated within the ward teams supporting excellent patient care.

Team work is at the heart of everything we do within pharmacy. We are a multicultural department with a very friendly atmosphere. We look after each other as well as the patients within our care.

For more information regarding detail of expected duties and personal specifications, please read the attached job description document.

We look forward to your application!

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Registration as Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical/General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent post‑graduate qualification commenced
• Evidence of Hospital‑based clinical education/training

Experience

• Demonstrable recent (inc. working in last 3 months) Pharmacy experience (can include pre‑registration year)
• NHS Hospital Pharmacy experience
• Dispensary final checking experience as a Pharmacist

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.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)