Clinical pharmacist

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 23 June 2026

Mersey and West Lancashire NHS Trust (Southport and Ormskirk sites) is looking to recruit Band 6 Clinical Pharmacists to become a part of our well-established Clinical Pharmacy Team. We are happy to consider applications from Community Pharmacists considering a career in hospital pharmacy and current foundation trainee pharmacists due to register in 2026.

The Pharmacy Department has recently benefited from a significant investment by the Trust to further enhance the quality of service provided to our patients which includes more specialist posts to support our junior staff and increased ward-based technicians to enhance medicines management on wards.

To further benefit our patients, the Trust has also recently embarked on the implementation of EPMA throughout the hospital.

The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.

Main duties of the job

The pharmacist will be ward based within a department committed to a pharmacist free dispensary for most of the day and will be rotated through different specialities including acute admissions, aseptics, cardiology, respiratory, surgery and Women's' and Children's' services.

We support pharmacists undertaking the Foundation Pharmacist Framework and continuously review our training and education to give our Foundation Pharmacists a positive learning experience during their early career in hospital pharmacy.

We actively encourage career development for our Foundation Pharmacists into specialist roles, over the past 5 years our band 6 pharmacists have progressed to a band 7 post on average 18 months after taking a post at Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals.

The department encourages Band 6 Pharmacists to undertake a Clinical Diploma and provides dedicated support for post-registration foundation pharmacist credentialing.

This post will be subject to an Enhanced DBS (with barred list for Adults and Children's disclosure).

About us

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services

• Acute Care – Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care – Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services – Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
• Specialist Regional Services – We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Job responsibilities

See job description for additional information

Please be aware this vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applicants is reached.

Person Specification

Other

• Use of VDU equipment
• Able to work under pressure, remains calm and objective
• Analysis of prescriptions. Interruptions for advice
• Good levels of concentration required, accuracy and attentional to detail
• Ability to rationalise complex issues
• Exposure to upsetting situations, high level of resilience to deal with distressing and/or challenging situations
• Distressed patients with complex diseases
• Professional appearance and hygiene awareness
• Analysis and input into formulation of procedures and guidelines

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Good time management, decision making and organisational skills
• Financial awareness regarding the management of drug budgets

Knowledge & Experience

• Foundation knowledge of Clinical Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation
• Previous hospital experience

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Fulfilment of mandatory Continuous Professional Development/Revalidation requirements
• Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy

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.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

£39,959 to £48,117 a year Per annum, pro rata