Rotational Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals Nhs Trust; Epsom; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist to develop clinical expertise and management skills across multiple rotations including critical care, paediatrics, and surgery.

You will undertake ward-based duties, reviews, and interventions, lead audits, and support junior pharmacists while expanding your professional scope within a leading South West London teaching hospital.

Qualifications

• Essential: General Pharmaceutical Council registration.
• Certificate in clinical pharmacy (12 months minimum, towards 18 months).
• Desirable: MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent.
• Full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide pharmaceutical services across rotations (critical care, paediatrics, surgery, medical specialties).
• Lead audits and drive quality improvement initiatives.
• Ward-based tasks, chart reviews and clinical interventions.
• Collaborate with medical teams to optimise medications and educate patients.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Motivation/self-drive

Drug usage review/audit

Education

Certificate in clinical pharmacy

MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated individuals to join our team as a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist. If you're an ambitious and forward-thinking individual seeking to enhance your clinical expertise while honing your management skills, then this position is tailor-made for you.

But that's not all - As one of South West London's largest teaching hospitals, we offer a unique opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge. Our status as an Acute Trust ensures you'll be exposed to a diverse range of medical conditions, allowing our pharmacists to develop a breadth of clinical expertise. Additionally, we're home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, and our dedicated paediatric hospital at St Helier provides a valuable opportunity to work with a diverse patient population and encounter an extensive array of medical conditions.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist, you'll work across a number of different rotations, including critical care, paediatrics, surgery, and a variety of medical specialties. Your daily responsibilities will encompass ward-based tasks, chart reviews, clinical interventions, working closely with the medical team to optimise medication regimens, patient education on medications, screening discharge prescriptions, and supporting junior or trainee pharmacists. In addition, you'll take the lead in conducting audits and driving quality improvement initiatives.

During 6-monthly rotations you will provide a comprehensive pharmaceutical service, working towards expert level knowledge during 6-monthly rotations. You will also be supported to develop managerial skills and expertise by working towards agreed objectives.

This position is full-time with a requirement for 37.5 hours of work per week, including participation in seven-day working and on-call rotas. However, we are open to applications from individuals seeking part-time, job-share, or flexible working arrangements.

Fixed‑Term 12 months

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Job responsibilities

In the full job description, you will see clearly the full range of duties within these roles that will enable you to work as part of the pharmacy team and with the clinicians and ward based teams to provide patient focused, individual care for our patients.

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification - General Pharmaceutical Council registration
• Certificate in clinical pharmacy (at least 12 months complete and working towards 18 months)

Desirable

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent. Management training
• Full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Management training

Experience

Essential

• Post registration UK hospital experience
• Experience of providing services to a broad variety of patients
• Demonstrate evidence of good clinical knowledge and skills.

Desirable

• Management of staff/ Staff appraisal

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Good organisational skills, self and others.
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Drug usage review/evaluation/audit experience

Desirable

• Clinical governance and risk management
• Experience of contributing to or leading on the writing of trust guidelines, policies and procedures

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 (opens in a new window).