Rotational Pharmacist Fixed Term

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Nhs Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic pharmacist to join as a 12-month fixed-term contract, delivering clinical services across ward, dispensary and cancer services teams.

You will rotate every 4 months, act as medicines expert within multidisciplinary teams, support safe patient discharge and develop decision-making through medicines optimisation and information services.

Qualifications

• Essential: Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy
• Essential: Currently Registered as member of the GPhC
• Essential: Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy services on rotation to the medical, surgical, urgent care and paediatric wards on rotation under the clinical supervision of Lead Specialist Pharmacists.
• Provide specialised pharmaceutical advice concerning the care of patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management for the Units where duties are being carried out.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines within the Units where duties are being carried out.
• Be accountable for his or her own professional actions guided by appropriate technical and professional SOPs and associated policies, national directives, standards, guidelines, senior pharmacist colleagues, and the post-holders own specialised knowledge.
• Use MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint to produce patient information, information for medical and nursing staff, audits and project reports.
• Monitor TPN on a daily basis against individual patients need and clinical condition.
• Provide the clinical pharmacist check on all prescriptions dispensed by the Dispensary and undertake the professional checking of chemotherapy prescriptions on a rotational basis.
• Provide day to day clinical supervision for pre-registration pharmacy graduates, pharmacy technicians, assistant pharmacy technicians, and students within the WRH dispensary and other pharmacy services.
• Undertake regular statutory checks of Controlled Drugs on hospital wards.
• Participate in the Weekend service and additionally in the Bank Holiday rota.
• Undertake emergency duties of a pharmaceutical nature integral to fulfilling an Emergency Duty Commitment, on a rota with other pharmacists at WAHT.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy services

Discharge planning

Education

Vocational degree in pharmacy

GPhC registration

CPD/continuing professional development

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic and clinically committed pharmacist to join our team on a 12 month fixed term basis to provide clinical pharmacist services to ward, dispensary and cancer services teams. You will:

• Gain experience across a range of specialist services through 4-month rotations.
• Work as the medicines expert within multidisciplinary teams.
• Support safe and timely patient discharge, including the Discharge Medicines Service.
• Develop clinical decision-making skills through medicines optimisation, medicines information and on-call services.

Support and Development

We are committed to helping you achieve your career goals through:

• Tailored rotational training and personalised learning objectives.
• Dedicated clinical supervision, coaching and mentoring.
• Regular development reviews.
• Opportunities to lead audits, contribute to guideline development and support incident reviews.
• Monthly education sessions and peer learning forums.
• Protected time for professional development.

Main duties of the job

Provide Medication History Taking, Medicines Reconciliation, provision of Patient Information and Counselling and ward-based discharge to an allocated clinical ward or area according to the rotation utilising the trusts electronic prescribing and notes system. Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate. Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within WAHT. Provide the clinical professional check on prescriptions dispensed within the dispensary, ensuring that the Trust high cost drug procedure and Trust Formulary is adhered to. Provide day to day clinical supervision for pre-registration pharmacy graduates, technical pharmacy staff and students as assigned. Provide clinical pharmacy teaching to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff. Provide weekend pharmacy services including on call on rotation.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond. The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester. Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do. Being open and honest. Ensuring people feel cared for. Showing respect to everyone. We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System. We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Details

Date posted: 14 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: C9365-26-0821

Job responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy services on rotation to the medical, surgical, urgent care and paediatric wards on rotation under the clinical supervision of Lead Specialist Pharmacists.
• Provide specialised pharmaceutical advice concerning the care of patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management for the Units where duties are being carried out.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines within the Units where duties are being carried out.
• Be accountable for his or her own professional actions guided by appropriate technical and professional SOPs and associated policies, national directives, standards, guidelines, senior pharmacist colleagues, and the post-holders own specialised knowledge.
• Use MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint to produce patient information, information for medical and nursing staff, audits and project reports.
• Monitor TPN on a daily basis against individual patients need and clinical condition.
• Provide the clinical pharmacist check on all prescriptions dispensed by the Dispensary and undertake the professional checking of chemotherapy prescriptions on a rotational basis.
• Provide day to day clinical supervision for pre-registration pharmacy graduates, pharmacy technicians, assistant pharmacy technicians, and students within the WRH dispensary and other pharmacy services.
• Undertake regular statutory checks of Controlled Drugs on hospital wards.
• Participate in the Weekend service and additionally in the Bank Holiday rota.
• Undertake emergency duties of a pharmaceutical nature integral to fulfilling an Emergency Duty Commitment, on a rota with other pharmacists at WAHT.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential:

• Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy
• Currently Registered as member of the GPhC
• Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.

Experience

Essential:

• Current experience of successfully delivering NHS pharmacy services to a range of general and specialist areas

Desirable:

• Experience of delivering NHS pharmacy services in a secondary care environment

Personal Qualities

Essential:

• Can demonstrate commitment to delivering the best possible services to patients and the trust.
• Able to meet deadlines and manage time effectively
• Able to work well on own initiative and effectively within a team to deliver best possible care
• Able to communicate information about medicines when there are barriers to understanding

Employer details

Employer name: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job

Principal Pharmacist, Lindsay Stewart, [e-mail], 01905760612

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.