Specialist Pharmacist for Elective Orthopaedic Surgery

NHS; Winchester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Winchester is seeking a clinical pharmacist to join their Pharmacy team at the Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre. The successful candidate will support patient care, enhance clinical skills, and manage pharmacy services. Candidates must be GPHC registered and have experience in a hospital clinical pharmacy environment. This role offers a salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 per year, with opportunities for training and development.

Qualifications

• Essential: Work in a hospital clinical pharmacy environment.
• Essential: NHS management experience.

Responsibilities

• Support development and delivery of Clinical Pharmacy Service.
• Collaborate with the Lead Pharmacist for Surgery.
• Provide medicines optimisation service to the surgical division.
• Act as an independent non-medical prescriber.
• Manage staff to ensure effective operation of services.

Skills

Ability to organise self and others

Good computer and keyboard skills

Enthusiastic and self-motivated

Work as part of a MDT

Professional presentation

Education

GPHC registration

Certificate in Pharmacy Practice

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice

Management and Leadership Training

Independent prescriber

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting new opportunity to welcome a clinical pharmacist to our Hampshire Hospitals Pharmacy team to support the new ICS collaboration in the Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC). This is a unique role in which you can develop your specialist skillset and advance your clinical skills.

As a specialist Pharmacist, you will spend time in a patient facing role working in HOC to support the clinical service. You will gain experience and training to enhance your advanced clinical skills and non-clinical skills. The Trust has a strong multidisciplinary approach with extended roles for non-medical staff. The successful candidate will be provided with the support of the HOC and Pharmacy teams, opportunities to develop and embed their careers, and to make a difference to patients\' lives.

Main duties of the job

• To support the development and delivery of the Clinical Pharmacy Service provided to Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC), with responsibility for staff management in line with pharmacy objectives set by the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Line manager.
• To collaborate with the Lead Pharmacist for Surgery to ensure the provision of an effective and efficient service for all patients of the services.
• This post is part of the multidisciplinary and clinical pharmacy teams and will work at a specialist level providing a medicines optimisation service to the surgical division, focusing on the HOC.
• To act as an independent non-medical prescriber, in accordance with the Health & Social Care Act 2001, specialising in an area of choice relevant to the surgical division.
• To manage staff to ensure the effective operation of the services provided to the speciality.
• The post holder has joint responsibility with the other specialist and clinical pharmacists within the clinical team for the overall leadership of the clinical pharmacy service to orthopaedics.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Details

Date posted: 18 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 251-FCSS6522-HOC

Job locations: Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, SO22 5DG

Job responsibilities

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - please ask at interview.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. We welcome applications from pharmacists who may not meet all the essential criteria or who have gained clinical experience in primary care.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Essential: GPHC registration
• Essential: Certificate in Pharmacy Practice

• Desirable: Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
• Desirable: Educational Supervisor
• Desirable: Management and Leadership Training
• Desirable: Independent prescriber

Experience & Knowledge

• Essential: Work in a hospital clinical pharmacy environment
• Essential: NHS management experience

• Desirable: Postgraduate E&T provision
• Desirable: Project management experience
• Desirable: Experience of Consultant ward rounds

Skills and Ability

• Essential: Work as part of a MDT
• Essential: Ability to organise self and others
• Essential: Good computer and keyboard skills
• Essential: Professional presentation of self
• Essential: Enthusiastic and self-motivated

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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, SO22 5DG

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