Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (Rotational)

Job overview

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (Rotational)

• hours per week (Late night working, on call, weekend and bank holiday working required on a rota basis)

Permanent

Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum

Closing Date: Sunday 12th April 2026

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.**

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A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Team as a Rotational Specialist Clinical Pharmacist at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. In this role, you will provide patient-centred pharmaceutical care to patients helping to ensure safe, effective, and optimal use of medication. You will move through various clinical rotations  providing opportunity to develop your specialist knowledge whilst working within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.

As an acute trust we are able to offer a unique and friendly experience with great exposure to both the operational and clinical aspects of hospital pharmacy.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, you will:

• Deliver clinical pharmacy services to allocated wards/departments.
• Perform medicines reconciliation, clinical screening, medication reviews, discharge planning, and patient counselling when required.
• Ensure safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of medicines, adhering to Trust policies and national guidance.
• Proactively advise prescribers on optimising treatment, including challenging inappropriate prescriptions.
• Utilise prescribing skills to support medicines optimisation within the trust.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to promote medicines optimisation and patient safety within your speciality
• Supervise and mentor junior pharmacists and trainees; contribute to teaching and education.
• Participate in service continuity and quality improvement activities in the form of QI projects and clinical audits.
• Engage in CPD and personal development plans to support continuous improvement and professional growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To assist the other pharmacists in ensuring that the work carried out in the department is performed in accordance with the recommendations contained in the guide to good pharmaceutical manufacturing practice and its supplements, COSHH and the safe systems of work documentation.
• To assist in the distribution of medicines to patients, wards, and departments and to assist in maintaining systems for the control of drugs in accordance with current legislation.
• Support diploma students and trainee pharmacists when undertaking study and application to practice.
• To support trainee pharmacists and qualified pharmacists undergoing Prescribing qualification as Designated Prescribing Practitioner, when required.
• To assist the medical staff in the undertaking of such clinical trials as has been approved by the research and ethics committee and to arrange under the direction of senior members of staff of the pharmaceutical department, the necessary supplies and aspects of trial protocol affecting the pharmaceutical services.
• To monitor and report medicines related causes of admission and ensure corrective measures are taken to prevent re-occurrences.
• To undertake “out of hours” emergency duty commitments as rostered.
• To provide professional and legal clinical supervision in the dispensary so as to ensure compliance with statutory and ethical standards when rostered in the area.

The post holder will be expected to take part in weekend, bank holiday, late night  and emergency duty rota.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and person specification attached.