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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Bank role
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
Job ref
301-Bank-26-7855816
Employer
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Georges/ Redwoods
Town
Stafford/Shrewsbury
Salary
Pro rata dependant on experience
Closing
20/03/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust logo

Bank Clinical Pharmacist Band 6/7

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

Bank Clinical Pharmacist

Band 6/7 depending on experience

Up to full time hours

Working at St Georges Hospital Stafford or Redwoods Shrewsbury.

Please do not upload a CV complete the full Trac application.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application. 

 

Main duties of the job

To ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care both throughout their admission to hospital and following discharge into assigned community mental/physical health teams. This post involves being part of a team of specialist clinical pharmacists playing an active role in inpatient multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.. This post involves playing an active role in inpatient and community multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.

Working for our organisation

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for full details.

 

Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient wards within MPFT.

· Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.

· Visit allocated wards and community team bases to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, thereby ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.

· Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals, thereby contributing to their safe, effective and economical use.

· Provide pharmaceutical input at multi-disciplinary team meetings, rapid review meetings and community team meetings where necessary undertaking patient medication histories and devising pharmaceutical care plans.

· Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Qualifications

Desirable criteria
  • Post graduate diploma in Psychiatric or Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Experience

Desirable criteria
  • Validated experience working in hospital as a clinical pharmacist and/or in mental health

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstration of up to date clinical knowledge in specialist area

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge and understanding of medicines legislation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Akila Ahmed
Job title
Deputy Director Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03007907000
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