Rotational Pharmacist Specialist

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Enherts-TR); Stevenage; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative NHS Trust is seeking a motivated Rotational Pharmacist Specialist to join a patient-centered pharmacy team. This role offers a structured rotational program across various specialties, including critical care and oncology, with full support for postgraduate training. The Trust values diversity and inclusion, aiming to provide high-quality care while fostering a collaborative environment. If you are passionate about making a difference in patient care and eager to develop your skills in a supportive setting, this position is an excellent opportunity to advance your career in pharmacy.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Pharmacy and professional registration required.
• Post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert pharmacy services to inpatient wards.
• Support Pharmacy Team Leads in audits and guideline updates.
• Mentor junior pharmacists and participate in emergency duty rota.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work alone or in a team

Clinical knowledge and effective pharmaceutical care skills

Education

Master Degree MPharm

Professional registration MRPharmS

Pharmacy Practice or equivalent

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AFC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 18 months (until June 2026. Secondment opportunities are available to internal candidates)

Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 361-6857143-A

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/02/2025 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Rotational Pharmacist Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for highly motivated pharmacists to join our award-winning, innovative, progressive, patient-centred pharmacy team. We are a friendly department and will support you to become an outstanding clinical pharmacist and help you fulfil your full potential.

We offer a structured rotational program which includes specialities such as ED, acute medicine, critical care, endocrinology, respiratory, gastroenterology, vascular surgery, aseptic oncology / haematology and a renowned renal services unit, working with a Consultant Renal Pharmacist.

We will fully fund and support you to undertake relevant post-graduate training including the prescribing qualification and leadership training.

We will develop your portfolio of skills to prepare you for more senior roles within the department through involvement in directorate and project work focused on improving quality of clinical services and patient-focused care.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

1. To join the multidisciplinary team and provide expert pharmacy services to a variety of inpatient wards.
2. To utilise specialist pharmaceutical skills to drive innovation and continuous improvement within selected specialties.
3. To support Pharmacy Team Leads for Unplanned Care/Planned Care, in directorate reporting, audits, guideline/policy updates and financial and medicines information.
4. To be a clinical mentor and guide junior pharmacists, foundation trainee pharmacists throughout their training programmes.
5. To participate in the departmental emergency duty rota, currently less than 1 in 18.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Master Degree MPharm
• Competency assessed and examined professional registration MRPharmS
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
• Pharmacy Practice or equivalent or successful completion of General Practice Diploma Core Course and examination or equivalent experience

Previous Experience

• Appropriate post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy
• Previous experience in providing clinical services to wards
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Proven experience of audit

Skills

• Excellent communication skills verbal and written
• Able to work alone or in a team
• Can show appropriate applications of clinical knowledge and effective pharmaceutical care skills

Knowledge

• Good Clinical Knowledge at consultant level
• Up to date knowledge of national pharmacy issues

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular, we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [e-mail]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

When you apply...

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As a publicly funded employer, we need to ensure we utilise our funds responsibly, this may mean we are unable to support sponsorship required to gain the right to work for particular positions. We strongly advise you to contact the line manager or a member of the Resourcing Team before applying to confirm if we will be able to support with sponsorship for that post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Hussein Ladha Job title Pharmacy Manager - Clinical Services Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01438286492 Additional information

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