Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare institution is seeking a dynamic Clinical Pharmacist to join their team. This role involves providing clinical pharmacy services across wards, participating in emergency on-call duties, and promoting safe medication practices. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills, demonstrate strong interpersonal capabilities, and have a passion for patient care. Opportunities for career development within the NHS Foundation Trust are available. Join us in delivering exceptional pharmacy services to enhance patient well-being.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Vibrant work environment

Qualifications

• Must be a highly motivated and open-minded individual.
• Experience in providing clinical services is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service to wards and outpatients.
• Attend clinical ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Record clinical interventions and activities.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Education

Registered Pharmacist

Job description

A position has become available within the Clinical Pharmacist team at the Southend Hospital site.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open minded and dynamic pharmacist to support the delivery of our clinical pharmacy service.

The current clinical pharmacists team currently comprises a welcoming, forward-thinking and vibrant group of individuals, always seeking to improve current ways of working to benefit the patients we serve and promote a harmonious working environment.

The successful candidate will therefore need to be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal/ relationship building skills. In return, we will offer you a range of career development opportunities, both on the Southend Hospital Site and the wider Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

The post will involve rotations within varied specialist clinical areas including general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, department of medicine for the elderly and technical services, as well as contributing to the provision of the 'on-call' service.

Responsibilities

• 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 Risk Governance Pharmacist with the medicine's 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.

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.

For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description. We look forward to your application!

This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Dec 2025