Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (late shifts, weekend working, bank holiday working and on call)
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7237707
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hopsital
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 08:00
Employer heading

Rotational Band 7 Specialist Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that medicine reconciliations, on the assigned wards, are completed as soon as possible after admission. They will also be responsible for ensuring discharge prescriptions are dealt with quickly and efficiently, responding to medicines information queries and conducting audits
The rotational pharmacist will rotate through each speciality every 12 months.
To prescribe if appropriate for patients within the job holder’s level of competence.
Main duties of the job
To provide, deliver and develop the clinical pharmacy service in accordance with agreed objectives
To co-ordinate the day to day activities in the assigned area
To act as a role model for clinical pharmacy practice and to provide training for medical, nursing and pharmacy staff.
To prescribe as appropriate for patients (including discharge prescriptions) within the job holder’s level of competence
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the Lead Pharmacist with issues relating to pharmaceutical care within the Business Group
To give advice on complex Medicines Information queries to prescribers, patients and carers and other healthcare personnel
Advising medical and nursing staff on the actions, properties and the safe cost effective use of medicines.
To co-ordinate and deliver the clinical pharmacy services to wards in accordance with agreed objectives
To be able to plan and organise own and others workload
To be able to prioritise and meet set deadlines particularly when under pressure.
To act as tutor for the pre-registration trainees when they are working on the ward
To manage technicians and band 6 pharmacists when working on the wards
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
- If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration with the GPhC in the UK
- Postgraduate diploma or have completed first year of diploma
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good level of clinical knowledge
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of clinical pharmacy service in NHS hospital
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a good standard of verbal and written English
- Able to work as part of a team or as an individual
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Markham
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
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