# Rotational Senior Clinical Pharmacist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Town:** Carshalton
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Pharmacist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 Pro-rata pa inc Outer (HCAS)
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity cover)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (seven day working, late duty and first line on-call commitment)
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T11:31:10.214Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Carshalton_Epsom/Epsom_St_Helier_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Senior_Clinical_Pharmacist/Senior_Clinical_Pharmacist-v8160884
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8160884?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated individuals to join our team as a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist. If you're an ambitious and forward-thinking individual seeking to enhance your clinical expertise while honing your management skills, then this position is tailor-made for you.

But that’s not all - As one of South West London's largest teaching hospitals, we offer a unique opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge. Our status as an Acute Trust ensures you'll be exposed to a diverse range of medical conditions, allowing our pharmacists to develop a breadth of clinical expertise. Additionally, we're home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, and our dedicated paediatric hospital at St Helier provides a valuable opportunity to work with a diverse patient population and encounter an extensive array of medical conditions.

### Main duties of the job

As a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist, you'll work across a number of different rotations, including critical care, paediatrics, surgery, and a variety of medical specialties. Your daily responsibilities will encompass ward-based tasks, chart reviews, clinical interventions, working closely with the medical team to optimise medication regimens, patient education on medications, screening discharge prescriptions, and supporting junior or trainee pharmacists. In addition, you'll take the lead in conducting audits and driving quality improvement initiatives.

During 6-monthly rotations you will provide a comprehensive pharmaceutical service, working towards expert level knowledge during 6-monthly rotations. You will also be supported to develop managerial skills and expertise by working towards agreed objectives.

This position is full-time with a requirement for 37.5 hours of work per week, including participation in seven-day working and on-call rotas. However, we are open to applications from individuals seeking part-time, job-share, or flexible working arrangements.

If you’d like to be a part of a team that offers a supportive and collaborative environment fostering growth and development, where your contributions are valued and recognised, we invite you to apply

### Fixed-Term 9 months

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the full job description, you will see clearly the full range of duties within these roles that will enable you to work as part of the pharmacy team and with the clinicians and ward based teams to provide patient focused, individual care for our patients. Tell us in your application how you meet the criteria in the attached person specification.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Good organisational skills, self and others.
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Drug usage review/evaluation/audit experience

**Desirable**

- Clinical governance and risk management
- Experience of contributing to or leading on the writing of trust guidelines, policies and procedures

### Experience

**Essential**

- Post registration UK hospital experience
- Experience of providing services to a broad variety of patients
- Demonstrate evidence of good clinical knowledge and skills.

**Desirable**

- Management of staff/ Staff appraisal

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Professional qualification – General Pharmaceutical Council registration
- Certificate in clinical pharmacy (at least 12 months complete and working towards 18 months)

**Desirable**

- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent. Management training
- Full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Management training

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 288.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10461604)
- [dbs policy (pdf, 101.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=677)
- [we're here to care (doc, 39.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=678)
- [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2413)

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