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Job requirements
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Essential
11 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Trust Values
Patient First
- Trust Values
Working Together
- Trust Values
Always Improving
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Master’s degree in pharmacy
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
GPhC registration
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Sound knowledge of medicines information/advice
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Sound knowledge of clinical pharmacy services
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Meets Foundation framework/ GLF competencies or equivalent
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Audit and evaluative work
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Sound understanding of healthcare priorities and political agendas
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Experience of teaching and tutoring
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
MRPharmS or equivalent
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Working towards RPS Advanced Core portfolio submission or equivalent
- Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Preparation of prescribing guidelines
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist (Specialist)
Contract Type: Permanent
Main duties of the job
As part of our team, you will solving medicine-related clinical problems across a wide array of clinical specialties.
Our service is a recognised centre of excellence, and unique to southern England. Our working environment means there’ll always be senior clinical pharmacists on hand when you need them. We are well known for being a friendly supportive team, and we’ll support your development through mentoring and training designed to meet your individual needs.
All our pharmacists have short and long-term projects on the go, including training and supervising trainee pharmacists, practice research, and web publications. It’s a great way to build your CV with higher level experience in a way that is not available to many other band 7 pharmacists. Our award-winning NHS website www.medicineslearningportal.org is used throughout the UK and 94% of pharmacists say it improves their clinical decisions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a very clinically-focused service, and advise doctors, nurses, and pharmacists in primary and secondary care how to treat their patients safely and well. We also operate a busy patient helpline, so you will have the satisfaction of regularly advising our Trust’s patients about their medicines. Feedback from our enquirers shows that our clinical advice is extremely valued and improves patient care.
We also counsel and advise patients after they’ve left our hospital via the Trust’s medicines helpline. This is a busy and professionally satisfying role that gives you patient contact throughout the day, even when you aren’t on your wards.
You’ll be advising on (and therefore learning about) a complete range of clinical specialities, and the clinical skills you’ll be honing are completely transferable to other areas of pharmacy. Whilst clinical problem solving is hugely important, we will equip you with many more skills to become a well-rounded and confident pharmacist.
If you’re a band 6 pharmacist who is looking for the next challenge, or a band 7 pharmacist who wants to take their clinical skills to the next level, then this is the role for you.
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.
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This advert is for Clinical Pharmacist (Specialist) with University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum - Pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Sep 2026.
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