About this role
Job summary
Ready for your next step in pharmacy?
Are you an ambitious early-career pharmacist with a passion for clinical practice, service improvement and patient care? If you're looking to develop your specialist expertise while helping shape pharmacy services across Worcestershire, we'd love to hear from you.
Following successful internal recruitment, we have two exciting opportunities to join our Specialist Pharmacist Rotational Team.
This role offers the chance to provide advanced ward-based clinical pharmacy services across a range of specialist areas at both Worcestershire Royal Hospital and The Alexandra Hospital. Working as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will build specialist knowledge, support the development of junior pharmacists, and contribute to innovative service improvements that enhance patient care.
About you
We're looking for a pharmacist who:
Has experience influencing prescribing practice within secondary care.Holds a postgraduate clinical diploma.Is an Independent Prescriber, or is eligible to undertake.Demonstrates strong clinical, communication and leadership skills.Thrives in a team environment and is committed to delivering excellent patient care.What we offer
At Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, we're committed to balancing outstanding patient care with professional development. You'll join a welcoming, supportive and education-focused pharmacy team, with excellent opportunities to develop your specialist practice and career.
Main duties of the job
What you'll do
Deliver an embedded clinical pharmacist prescribing service across specialist areas, including:
Critical Care Paediatrics Surgery and Nutrition Urgent Care Frailty Rotations are undertaken on a six-month basis.
Provide expert medicines advice as a key member of the multidisciplinary team.
Lead and support service development initiatives alongside specialist leads and principal pharmacists.
Act as a mentor and role model for foundation pharmacists, trainees and students.
Deliver high-quality pharmaceutical care throughout the patient's admission.
Support discharge planning, prescribing and effective communication across healthcare settings to ensure seamless continuity of care.
Please note: Applicants will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. If you do not yet meet all of the requirements for this Band 7 role, we would encourage you to consider applying for our Band 6 Pharmacist Development Role, which provides a structured development pathway with the opportunity to progress to Band 7 upon successful completion of the required competencies.
To apply for the development role, please search for vacancy reference C9365-26-0598 or use the link provided within the Supporting Links section of this advertisement.
About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
DBS Checks and Costs
Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.
Job description Job responsibilities
See attached documents for full Band 7 JD
Be responsible for delivering the specialist clinical pharmacy service to the assigned clinical specialty during the rotation. Deliver specialised knowledge of medicines and nutrition support to provide advice to consultants, medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all aspects of medicines use for patients. Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
If not already qualified, undertake an independent prescriber qualification within an agreed specialty as agreed with clinicians and funding, complying with all requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independent prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.
Identify medicine-related causes for admission and develop treatment plans to optimise care, deprescribing where appropriate.
Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to allocated wards and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.
Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the rotational areas as assigned.
Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials comply with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research on pharmaceutical aspects of medicines use.
Provide pharmaceutical teaching to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff.
Introduce measures to ensure drug expenditure is within agreed limits as requested by the Director and Deputy Director of Pharmacy. This will include monitoring the use and funding of new medicines for the Medicines Prescribing Sub-Committee (MPC)
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Current post graduate relevant experience in delivering clinical services to the given speciality or directorate. Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients. Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of pharmacists and pharmacy technical staff. Experience of contributing to the preparation and delivery of reports, audits, clinical guidelines for directorate or divisional level. Experience in developing and implementing quality improvement.
Desirable
Practicing prescriber Experience in providing an extended service as sole clinical practitioner e.g. residency service or on-call Experience of training nurses and doctors Experience of leading a team
Qualifications Essential
Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council Attained or working towards post-graduate level training. E.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy with at least 1 year completed, RPS Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway linked with RPS Post Registration Foundation Curriculum and able to provide evidence across 4 of the domains. Holds, currently taking or eligible to undertake prescribing qualification Currently meeting the GPhC standards for continuing professional development.
Desirable
Accredited IP Health Assessment qualification Working towards RPS Faculty membership Attained or working towards a leadership and management qualification. E.g. The Edward Jenner Program or equivalent.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address Charles Hastings Way
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 1DD
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)