SEHSCT Clinical Pharmacist with on call band 7

Job details

• Branch: Belfast Area (SEHSCT)
• Location: UH, Main Building
• Salary: Band 7 (£47,810 - £54,710)
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Opening Date: 18/05/26
• Closes: Tue, 02 June 2026 @ 5:30 PM
• Interview Dates: TBC

Notes

A waiting list may be compiled for any similar posts that arise over the next 12 months. PLEASE PRINT OFF THE JOB DESCRIPTION AS THIS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AFTER YOU HAVE SUBMITTED YOUR APPLICATION. Online and manual applications accepted. Manual applications should be posted to: Recruitment Shared Services, Rosewood Villa, Longstone Hospital Site, 73 Loughgall Road, Armagh BT61 7PR Applications which arrive after the advertised closing date/time will not be considered.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE

Clinical Pharmacist with on call

BAND

DIRECTORATE

INITIAL LOCATION

Band 6/7

Pharmacy / Hospital Services: Surgery, Elective, Maternity & Paediatrics Directorate

Ulster Hospital - In order to meet the needs of the Trust’s services you may be required from time to time to work outside your normal place of work.

REPORTS TO

Team Lead or Medical Directorate Pharmacist Lead / Clinical Pharmacy Development Lead

ACCOUNTABLE TO

FLEXIBLE WORKING PROVISIONS AVAILABLE

Head of Pharmacy and Medicines Management

Full-time working, Fixed working patterns, Job-share if 2 candidates successful & can cover the hours

JOB SUMMARY

In order to meet the overall mission of the Trust the post holder will

Work as a Clinical Pharmacist providing a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and clinics

Band 6/7 Pharmacists will either

Gain rotational experience across unscheduled care (including emergency department), medical, surgical and other clinical specialties.

Specialities include ICU, medical day case, biologic therapies, mental health, gastroenterology, cardiology, palliative care, respiratory, maternity, paediatrics, orthopaedics, general surgery, hospital at home (based in Ards hospital) and medicines & patient safety.

Rotations will depend on service needs, typically 12 months in duration.

Or

Work in the Emergency Department as a band 6/7 pharmacist.

Ensure the safe, effective and economic use of medicines

KEY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

Main Responsibilities

Complete the Foundation Programme or equivalent (FP2 or original format FP) within 12 months of appointment to allow progression to a band 7.

Required to undertake and attain the prescribing qualification within first 2 years of appointment.

To practise as a generalist Independent Pharmacist Prescriber during the patients stay and at discharge.

To either

Participate in the band 7 clinical pharmacy rotational experience across unscheduled care (including emergency department), medical, surgical and other clinical specialties. Specialities include ICU, medical day case, biologic therapies, mental health, gastroenterology, cardiology, palliative care, respiratory, maternity, paediatrics, orthopaedics, general surgery, hospital at home and medicines & patient safety.

OR

Work in the emergency department as a band 6/7 clinical pharmacist.

Provide a high level of clinical pharmacy input, as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

Provide high level of medicine and patient safety information to relevant stakeholders, as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

Develop good working relationships with the other members of the healthcare team, negotiating and influencing changes in prescribing practice to promote evidence based practice and improve medication and patient safety.

Obtain a comprehensive and accurate admission medication history to ensure that patients receive the correct and appropriate medicine in a timely manner.

Optimise patients’ medication during admission.

Manage patient’s own drugs to ensure effective prescribing and patient safety at all times.

Implement pharmaceutical care plans in accordance with patients’ diagnosis and assess treatment options available.

Provide a prescription monitoring service including identification of adverse drug reactions, drug related events, drug interactions and rationalisation of medicines during hospital stay.

Work in conjunction with the medical staff to prepare timely discharge prescriptions

Ensure timely discharge information is available to primary care healthcare professionals.

Provide medicine related information and advice of a therapeutic, legal or procedural nature to prescribers and other healthcare staff ensuring effective prescribing and patient safety at all times.

Take a role in the development of an integrated clinical pharmacy service and medicines optimisation in light of national, regional and local standards.

Help develop, implement and monitor regional and local policies, protocols, guidelines and initiatives in the area of medicines management.

Undertake risk assessments to ensure any potential medication incidents are minimised.

Assist in benchmarking the clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of performance indicators to monitor effectiveness and patient benefit

Support the medication and patient safety team in all work relating to medication and patient safety as required.

Provide advice and counselling to patients and their carers on the proper and informed use of medicines prior to discharge. This includes the provision of written or verbal information to patients with difficult behaviour or those with impaired cognitive function or impaired senses.

Promote optimal, safe and appropriate drug use and high quality prescribing practice through development of local formularies, drug usage review, development of prescribing guidelines and multidisciplinary staff training.

To participate in Medical, Nursing and allied professional education as appropriate and in the rehabilitation education of patient groups.

Carry out intervention monitoring according to local guidelines to ensure the safe, effective and economic use of medicines.

Attend multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate and provide timely analysed drug usage reports with recommendations on budgetary and formulary activities.

Proactively contribute to therapeutic decisions concerning patient management.

Advise the Clinical Leads and Head of Pharmacy and Medicines Management of budgetary changes due to possible alterations in the use of drugs e.g. new licensed indications, new literature and new drugs marketed.

Initiate and participate in pharmaceutical aspects of clinical audit, research and supervise students where appropriate.

To participate in the planning and administration of drug trials.

Participate in relevant Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and apply knowledge gained to current and future work as appropriate.

Collate and monitor information on the expenditure of high cost drugs to ensure cost effective prescribing.

Participate in the mentoring, teaching and training of band 6 pharmacists on the Foundation Programme, foundation training year pharmacists and university students.

Participate in the mentoring and teaching of pharmacy technicians on the Medicines Management Accredited Programme (MMAP)

Supervise and support the junior pharmacists and technical staff working within your area on a daily basis

Ensure the appropriate interpretation of prescriptions prior to their preparation.

Provide accurate and appropriate medicines information in response to internal and external Trust enquiries including patient/carer/healthcare worker enquiries utilising all available resources.

Plan and organise own work according to agreed objectives and timeframes for the designated area/pharmacy service.

Accurately prepare extemporaneous preparations utilising appropriate equipment e.g. fume cabinet, balances etc. whilst ensuring adherence to all relevant good manufacturing guidelines and COSHH.

Assist in the review and evaluation of pharmaceutical clinical technologies (drugs, dressings).

Collect and collate all workload stats.

Report incidents and near misses in line with Trust policy

Encourage staff to report near misses and incidents, share the learning and undertake reflective practice

Encourage pharmacists, medical and nursing staff to report adverse drug reactions

Participate in the preparation of conference presentations, posters, writing reports and the writing up of publications.

Participate in the implementation of policies and procedures for the safe and efficient use of medicines/Pharmaceutical Clinical Effectiveness Programme.

Participate in the recruitment, selection and appointment of staff as required

Ensure the safe and secure storage of medicines in accordance with all medicines legislation and Trust security policies.

Participate in the opening/lock up, weekend and statutory duty rota and when required, on the on call rota.

Clinical/Professional/Specific Managerial Responsibilities

Support the Trust in its drive for seven day working in order to ensure it best meets the needs of our patients.

The duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description are neither meant to be definitive nor restrictive and may be modified to meet changing needs. It should be noted therefore that duties, designation and location of post might be subject to change in the future to meet the changing requirements of the service.

The post holder will

Maintain staff relationships and morale amongst staff

Supervise and assist in the training of foundation training year pharmacists, Technicians, Student Technicians and Assistant Technical Officers.

Report any signs of ill health/stress in colleagues

Support the Trust in defending legal actions and participate in tribunals as required

Comply with all Trust policies and procedures relevant to area of work

GENERAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

The post holder will promote and support effective team working, fostering a culture of openness and transparency. The post holder will ensure that they take all concerns raised with them seriously and act in accordance with the South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust’s Raising Concerns Policy and their professional code of conduct, where applicable.

Ensure the Trust’s policy on equality of opportunity is promoted through his/her own actions and those of any staff for whom he/she has responsibility.

Co-operate fully with the implementation of the Trust's Health and Safety arrangements, reporting any accidents/incidents/equipment defects to his/her manager, and maintaining a clean, uncluttered and safe environment for patients/clients, members of the public and staff.

Adhere at all times to all Trust policies/codes of conduct, including for example

Smoke Free policy

IT Security Policy and Code of Conduct

standards of attendance, appearance and behaviour

Contribute to ensuring the highest standards of environmental cleanliness within your designated area of work.

Co-operate fully with regard to Trust policies and procedures relating to infection prevention and control.

All employees of the South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust are legally responsible for all records held, created or used as part of their business within the South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust including patients/clients, corporate and administrative records whether paper-based or electronic and also including emails. All such records are public records and are accessible to the general public, with limited exceptions, under the Freedom of Information act 2000 the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Employees are required to be conversant with the [org name] policy and procedures on records management and to seek advice if in doubt.

Take responsibility for his/her own ongoing learning and development, in order to maximise his/her potential and continue to meet the demands of the post.

Represent the Trust’s commitment to providing the highest possible standard of service to patients/clients and members of the public, by treating all those with whom he/she comes into contact in the course of work, in a pleasant, courteous and respectful manner.

This Job Description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. Other duties of a similar nature and appropriate to the grade may be assigned from time to time.

It is a standard condition that all Trust staff may be required to serve at any location within the Trust's area, as needs of the service demand.

eHealth

The South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust has invested in eHealth to deliver better, faster, safer care to our community and is committed to supporting staff to utilise associated information systems that directly and indirectly inform care. Trust staff are therefore required to commit sufficient time to ensure that they acquire and/or retain the core technology skills required to support their role.

May 2026

PERSONNEL SPECIFICATION

JOB TITLE AND BAND Clinical Pharmacist with on call Band 6/7

DEPARTMENT / DIRECTORATE Pharmacy / Hospital Services: Surgery, Elective, Maternity and Paediatrics Directorate

SALARY

HOURS 37.5

Ref No: <to be inserted by HR> <Month & Year>

Notes to applicants

You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how you meet the required criteria as failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. You should clearly demonstrate this for both the essential and desirable criteria.

Shortlisting will be carried out on the basis of the essential criteria set out in Section 1 below, using the information provided by you on your application form. Please note the Trust reserves the right to use any desirable criteria outlined in Section 3 at shortlisting. You must clearly demonstrate on your application form how you meet the desirable criteria.

Proof of qualifications and/or professional registration will be required if an offer of employment is made – if you are unable to provide this, the offer may be withdrawn.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

SECTION 1: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will initially be measured at shortlisting stage although may also be further explored during the interview/selection stage. You should therefore make it clear on your application form whether or not you meet these criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. The stage in the process when the criteria will be measured is stated below.

Factor

Criteria

Ideally no more than 6-8 criteria in this section

Method of Assessment

Experience

Minimum of 2 years post registration experience: of which 18 months must be as a band 6 hospital pharmacist by 30th Sept 2026.

Shortlisting by Application Form

Qualifications/ Registration

MPharm or equivalent

Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland or eligible for membership

Completed and passed a recognised foundation training programme and/or have a post graduate certificate in an area of pharmacy relevant to this post will allow post holder to commence as band 7

OR

To progress to band 7 candidates must complete and pass a recognised foundation training programme and/or have a postgraduate certificate in an area of pharmacy relevant to this post within 12 months of appointment.

Those submitting FP2 (or equivalent) in 2026 are eligible to apply for this post and will progress to band 7 on completion.

Those submitting original FP pathway in 2026 are eligible to apply for this post and will progress to band 7 on completion.

Shortlisting by Application Form

Other

Hold a current full driving licence, which is valid for use in the UK, and have access to a car on appointment.

Able to attend the Ulster Pharmacy within 45 minutes if called to attend whilst on call.

These criteria will be waived in the case of applicants whose disability prohibits driving but who have access to a form of transport approved by the Trust, which will permit them to carry out the duties of the post.

Shortlisting by Application Form

SECTION 2: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will be measured during the interview/ selection stage:

Skills / Abilities

Excellent communication skills to meet the needs of the post in full

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant professionals.

Ability to work to tight time scales whilst meeting targets.

Ability to identify solutions to problems and implement them effectively.

Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.

Competent in use of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Word and Powerpoint

Demonstrate a commitment to the provision of high quality and safe services with an ability to drive a culture of continuous improvement.

High motivation and drive in order to actively develop the pharmaceutical service.

Interview / Test

Knowledge

Knowledge of the job

Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems

Knowledge of Clinical Pharmacy Standards

Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Risk Management as applied to Medicines Management

Interview / Test

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

SECTION 3: these will ONLY be used where it is necessary to introduce additional job related criteria to ensure files are manageable. You should therefore make it clear on your application form how you meet these criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted

Factor

Criteria

Method of Assessment

Experience

Shortlisting by Application Form

Qualifications

Practising Pharmacist Independent Prescriber. Successful candidates will be required to undertake and complete this qualification within 18 months of appointment/ within APP framework if they don’t already have it.

Shortlisting by Application Form

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THE TRUST IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

Successful applicants may be required to attend for a Health Assessment

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