Job requirements
Essential
4 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
NHS experience is Highly Desirable including Clinical Pharmacy experience.
- Experience
Experience of contributing to consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team working.
- Qualifications
Professional Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Qualifications
Masters Degree in Pharmacy or UK recognised equivalent.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
Job Title: Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - 88918
Grade: Band 8a
Trust: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Royal Berkshire Hospital, RG1 5AN
Ward: Pharmacy
Pay Rates: £33.11 per hour
Shift Patterns: 37.5 hours per week, Mon-Fri 09:00-17:15
Why might this job interest you?
Are you a skilled and compassionate Pharmacist with extensive Clinical experience? Are ready to play a crucial role in patient care? Join our team at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and help us make a difference!
Main duties of the job
- Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to the designated clinical area, taking professional responsibility for the pharmaceutical care of patients with complex medicines needs, including prescription review, medicines reconciliation, adverse drug reaction reporting, therapeutic drug monitoring and individualisation of drug therapy.
- Act as the first point of contact for complex medicines queries from medical, nursing and allied health professional staff, giving expert advice where evidence is limited or conflicting, and escalating where appropriate.
- Undertake regular dispensary sessions, including clinical screening and final checking of prescriptions, or homecare prescription screening, ensuring homecare prescriptions are clinically appropriate, meet commissioning and Blueteq requirements where applicable, and are processed in a timely way.
- Support audit, service evaluation and quality improvement projects in the clinical area, present findings at departmental and directorate meetings, and make sure resulting changes are put in place.
- Work with the lead pharmacists to develop and extend pharmacist prescribing in the clinical area, such as discharge prescribing, medicines optimisation reviews or pharmacist-led clinics.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Details
- Date posted: 15 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £33.11 an hour
- Contract: Bank
- Duration: 3 months
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: M0042-889188A
- Job locations: Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road, READING, RG1 5AN, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description for a more detailed breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of this role.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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