Job overview
NHS Band 8a Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours per Week: full time 37.5
Contract Type: Permanent
We are recruiting for a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”.
Permanent opportunities for up to full-time working if desired.
The Pharmacy department which is based out of St Mary’s Hospital is energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) embedded in practice across the Trust and used creatively to enhance clinical practice. This is along with a fully integrated medicines management system which interfaces EPMA seamlessly with dispensing, stock control, and automation/robotics throughout the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide leadership within the pharmacy team and across the Trust in clinical areas as required. Working with internal and external stakeholders whilst accountable to the Trust Chief Pharmacist. Key responsibilities will be: Leading, co-ordinating, delivering and developing clinical services within admissions across the emergency floor.
Development of policies, procedures, guidelines, risk assessments and audits.
Promoting a culture of medicines safety to minimise harm, optimising learning from incidents and responding to safety alerts.
Supervising, training, and supporting the development of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
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Person specification
Abilities
Essential
- Able to record information accurately.
- Able to work as part of a team or as an individual with a flexible approach to duties. Customer care.
- Able to share learning with others.
- Able to interpret complex clinical data.
- Ability to relate well at all levels within the NHS.
- Able to negotiate with other healthcare professionals in relation to pharmaceutical care of patients
- Ability to work effectively with senior clinical personnel.
Aptitudes
Essential
- Articulate and numerate.
- Accurate and precise.
- Honest, trustworthy, reliable and discrete.
- Clean and presentable in appearance.
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn.
- Adaptable and innovative in approach to work and projects.
- Uses initiative and open to change/use of technology and extended roles.
- Willing to participate in personal development and prepared to work outside “normal” working hours.
Qualifications
Essential
- Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree or equivalent
- Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
- Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent experience.
- Completed general level framework competency training or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
- Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience. Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
- Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
- Specialist knowledge and experience in clinical speciality.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Able to work at a continuous level of high concentration.
- Excellent time management.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Fluent in oral and written English
- Approachable and diplomatic.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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This advert is for Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine and Admissions with Isle of Wight NHS Trust in Newport, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata, per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 14 Aug 2026.
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