Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 151-SL0516
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Wexham
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Rotational Pharmacist
Band 7
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced pharmacist to be part of a dynamic team working at Wexham Park Hospital.
This post is suitable for Primary Care Pharmacists who would like to embark on hospital pharmacy journey, as well as junior hospital pharmacists who would like to expand their experience and take a specialist rotational role within hospital.
The post holder will be rotating in different specialities including Paediatrics, Haematology/Oncology, Medicine & Surgery, and ITU.
Our Band 7 rotations are geared towards preparing staff for the next step in their career.
You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
*** Although the position is advertised as fixed term, the current post holder will not be returning, and it is highly likely that this role will be re-advertised as a permanent position towards the end of 2026 ***
Main duties of the job
- To partake in the Band 7 Rotations through different clinical specialties- including (but not limited to) Paediatrics, Medicine & Surgery.
- To develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
- The provision of a clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist areas.
- To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
- The recruitment, management and development of staff under the postholder.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service across specialist and general ward areas in line with Trust policies, current legislation, and departmental standards.
- Work closely with Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nurses, and senior managers to develop, implement, and evaluate pharmaceutical services and protocols to ensure safe, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines.
- Assess pharmaceutical care needs, undertake medicines reconciliation and optimisation, develop and implement care plans, review and adjust drug therapy, counsel patients, support discharge planning, and provide medicines advice to healthcare staff.
- Attend ward rounds as required.
- Act as an independent prescriber in accordance with Trust guidelines.
- Contribute to clinical governance, audit, research, service development, formulary management, and prescribing committees.
- Support cost-effective prescribing and drug evaluations.
- Provide education and training to multidisciplinary staff and students, supervise and develop junior pharmacy staff, and contribute to CPD.
- Assist with dispensary services when required and participate in on-call, weekend, and bank holiday rotas.
- Provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service across specialist and general ward areas in line with Trust policies, current legislation, and departmental standards.
- Work closely with Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nurses, and senior managers to develop, implement, and evaluate pharmaceutical services and protocols to ensure safe, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines.
- Assess pharmaceutical care needs, undertake medicines reconciliation and optimisation, develop and implement care plans, review and adjust drug therapy, counsel patients, support discharge planning, and provide medicines advice to healthcare staff. Attend ward rounds as required.
- Act as an independent prescriber in accordance with Trust guidelines. Contribute to clinical governance, audit, research, service development, formulary management, and prescribing committees.
- Support cost-effective prescribing and drug evaluations.
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy degree (Master level 4 years)
- Registered with GPhC
- Within 12 months of completion of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Independent pharmacist Prescriber
- Completion of Diploma in Clinical Practice OR equivalent
experience/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Presentation skills
- Ability to train others
- Ability to present data effectively as evidence based reports/cases
- Evidence of up to date CPD in clinical pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Member of UKCPA
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Practical experience of audit
- Protocol development
- Service development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Recent Hospital Clinical Pharmacy experience
- • Post-registration provision of clinical pharmacy service to a broad range of clinical specialities
Desirable criteria
- Medicine Information experience
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sonia Sunny Babu
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006133748
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