Clinical Pharmacist - Portsmouth and South East

Job summary

We are seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join our our well-established, friendly team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who provide clinical support to mental health units, community hospitals and community teams across Hampshire. This role is for 30 hrs per week.

The post is based at The Orchards Mental Health Unit at St James Hospital in Portsmouth and the successful applicant will provide regular clinical pharmacist support here and at the OPMH inpatient wards in Gosport War Memorial Hospital. You will also work closely with the East Region (Porstmouth and South East) pharmacy team to provide clinical cover to Older Persons Mental Health and community rehabilitation wards.

As part of the role you will be able to gain experience in other specialities such as Learning Disabilities, CAMHS, adult, LD and CAMHS forensic services and End of Life.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the clinical service is of high quality and patient focused, help to identify gaps and problem areas in the service and use appropriate methods including quality improvement. The post holder will deliver an efficient, high quality, professional and well-coordinated clinical pharmacy service. This will include the provision of prescribing advice to medical teams and medicines management to the multidisciplinary teams and patients at ward/clinic level.

For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:

Ana Alves, Lead Pharmacist - East Region

Main duties of the job

Your work will focus on enhancing patient safety in medicines practice including medicines reconciliation, providing clinical professional advice to prescribers as part of a multi-disciplinary team, discharge planning, clinical audit, and teaching.

Key areas of practice will be to:

Utilise pharmaceutical expertise, working in partnership with patients, carers and healthcare professionals to minimise medicines-related harm and facilitating medicines optimisation.

Provide clinical pharmacy advice and participate in the pharmaceutical services to the East Region (Porstmouth and South East).

Monitor drug usage and promote cost effective prescribing.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 20 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Based on full time hours
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 348-COR-12942
• Job locations: The Orchards, St James' Hospital, Locksway Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO4 8FE, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).