Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
23 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of providing medicines information to patients/carers
- Qualifications
Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- Qualifications
Statutory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Qualifications
Successful completion of pre-registration/trainee pharmacist program
- Qualifications
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Demonstrates clinical Knowledge and skills
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Up to date knowledge of current NHS policies
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Good oral and written communication skills
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Good presentation skills
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Ability to work alone and be a team player
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Role model for trainee pharmacists and student technicians
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Committed to safe and effective patient care
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Has an empathic nature
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Ability to interpret clinical information and provide advice accordingly
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Good organisation skills
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Ability to organise and prioritise own work load and time
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Keen to undertake self-development
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Reliable with a good attendance record
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Flexible and adaptable approach to working
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Must be independently mobile across the Trust area
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
A CRB Check will be required for this role.
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Professional manner and appearance
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
General/basic IT/computer skills
Desirable
9 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Trainee/pre-registration training in hospital pharmacy (1 year duration)
- Experience
Previous experience in hospital pharmacy
- Experience
Basic experience in mental health pharmaceutics
- Experience
Experience in audit or project facilitation
- Experience
Supervision of Staff
- Qualifications
Prescriber qualification
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Willingness to obtain further qualifications in mental health or pharmacy practice if not already held as identified through the post holders personal development plan.
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Full UK drivers licence and use of a car for work purposes
- Other including knowledge, communication, analytical and judgmental skills, planning and organisation and physical skills
Experience of using database, electronic prescribing and OmniCell
Job summary
We are pleased to offer TWO rare and exciting rotational pharmacist positions providing clinical pharmacist input to inpatient wards across Exeter and Langdon (Dawlish) localities.
The postholder will be supported by Clinical Pharmacists and Senior Clinical Pharmacists and over the duration of the rotations will gain experience in the following areas:
Adult acute mental health
Psychiatric intensive care
Rehabilitation
Older peoples mental health (including dementia)
Secure services (including low and medium security)
Eating disorders
Perinatal
The postholder will have close clinical support via regular managerial and clinical supervision with their line manager, access to an array of friendly, experienced and supportive pharmacists and pharmacy technicians across the Trust as well as a variety of networks including a regular pharmacy peer group. The postholder will be encouraged and supported to complete relevant post-graduate qualifications (including independent prescribing if not already obtained) as they gain experience within their role. The Foundation Pharmacist Programme Framework will be utilised to support personal development in a structured way.
***Banding subject to job matching***
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the Clinical Pharmacists, Senior Clinical Pharmacists, Clinical Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Optimisation Technicians, the Rotational Pharmacist postholders will form an essential part of the clinical pharmacy service across Langdon and Exeter inpatient wards.
Piloting a new structure across both Exeter and Langdon inpatient wards, the postholder will oversee a number of wards and services, providing pharmacist support through answering clinical queries, carrying out medicines reconciliations, clinically assessing and screening an array of inpatient prescriptions, including short-term leave and discharge prescriptions on the Trusts electronic prescribing and administration system as well as liaising with supplying pharmacies.
Under the support of Clinical Pharmacists, the postholder will also have dedicated clinical time to attend targeted multi-disciplinary team meetings, including ward rounds and risk review meetings, speak to patients, carers and relatives to provide counselling on complex medication regimes and critical medicines such as antipsychotics, including high doses, clozapine and depots and mood stabilisers, including lithium and valproate.
The Rotational Pharmacist positions are aimed at dedicated and enthusiastic clinicians wanting to gain experience within mental health, neurodiversity and learning disabilities, with a view of developing into specialist mental health pharmacists.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Details
- Date posted: 17 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Reference number: C9369-26-0625
- Job locations: Wonford House, Dryden Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5AF, United Kingdom, Devon Partnership Nhs Trust, Langdon Hospital, DAWLISH, Devon, EX7 0NR, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on 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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This advert is for Rotational Pharmacist with Devon Partnership NHS Trust in Exeter, England; Dawlish, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Sep 2026.
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