Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (N/A)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-7563618-C
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Rotational
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Join Our Team as a Rotational Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (12-Month Fixed Term )
The Trust is offering an exciting 12-month fixed-term opportunity for a motivated pharmacist to join our dynamic pharmacy team.
- Have you recently registered as a Pharmacist?
- Are you an established Pharmacist who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?
- Do you want to work in a supportive educational environment?
If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
This fixed-term role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain a broad range of rotational experience across multiple clinical specialties, while also developing essential non-clinical skills within a collaborative and forward-thinking pharmacy team.
Main duties of the job
A flavour of your day to day
You will work in a direct, patient-facing role ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.
Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:
Medical wards
Surgical wards
- · Admissions wards
- · Medicines Information
- · Aseptic Production
- · Palliative care
- · Antimicrobial stewardship
- · Inpatient and outpatient dispensary
The department works on an extended hours, seven day pharmacy service on a rostered basis, as well as providing an on-call service out of hours, which you will be involved in.
We have a fully integrated electronic prescribing and medication record system known as e-Care, which is supporting the pharmacy department to improve and monitor the care that we deliver.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details about the role.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- M.Pharm/B Pharm/BSc Pharmacy.
- Registered with the GPhC.
- Post Graduate qualification in clinical Pharmacy or nearing completion, or demonstration of equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Membership of RPSGB.
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Post-registration experience with substantial hospital experience
- Experience in providing a pharmacy clinical service to patients in a range of specialities
- Experience of delivering a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to a range of clinical specialities
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience in providing pharmacy education & training, including mentorship
- Experience of medicines management services to individual patients at the bedside
- Evidence of on-going revalidation with the GPhC
- Specialised knowledge of the treatment of patients in a range of specialities
- Knowledge of how the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service must meet the needs of local and national priorities
- Knowledge to teach higher-level clinical pharmacy practice
- Knowledge of pharmacy-based computer systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the provision of pharmacy expertise to the clinical governance agenda
- Experience of managing or supervising other staff
- Experience of implementing and/or reviewing policies, guidelines, PGDs or equivalent
- Experience of objective setting for other members of staff
- Experience of change management
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and patients
- Able to provide specialised advice on the use of medicines to treat patients within a specialist area
- Able to manage time effectively and meet tight deadlines
- Able to prioritise and manage workload
- Able to demonstrate a specialised level of reasoning and judgment
- Able to undertake prescription review of complex medication regimes
- Able to apply evidence-based medicine to prescribed regimes and to balance the risks and benefits of prescribed treatments for the individual patient
- Attention to detail and good problem-solving skills
- Proficient computer skills
Desirable criteria
- Able to manage difficult or ambiguous situations
- Able to train and supervise staff
- Able to undertake analysis of incidents/complaints
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a professional attitude and understands professionalism.
- Good communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Ability to work calmly and in an organised fashion in a busy environment.
- Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines.
- Approachable and supportive to peers and other staff.
- Good team member.
- Ability to work well on own initiative.
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and patients.
- Ability to work to deadlines and achieve agreed objectives.
- Positive attitude towards personal/self-development
- Flexibility to work in different areas
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Alexis Marcos
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist – Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01284 712929
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