As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary ward team, delivering a high-quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacy service to inpatients. Working collaboratively with ward clinicians, practice pharmacy teams, GPs, and carers, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines. You will apply your clinical expertise to support evidence-based prescribing decisions, optimise treatment outcomes, and enhance medicines safety. In addition, you will contribute to seamless patient care across the wider healthcare pathway, supporting continuity and improving overall patient experience. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, make a meaningful impact on patient care, and help drive high standards of clinical practice within the ward setting.
Responsibilities
- Deliver comprehensive clinical medication reviews for inpatients, optimising treatment and improving patient outcomes.
- Provide expert prescribing, therapeutics, and medicines-related advice to clinical and non-clinical colleagues, including doctors, nurses, nursing associates, pharmacy technicians, and wider health and social care professionals.
- Lead on medicines optimisation, supporting patients to gain the maximum benefit from their medicines.
- Actively promote the safe, effective, and cost-conscious use of medicines in line with best practice and local formulary guidance.
- Identify and address unmet pharmaceutical needs, ensuring high standards of medicines safety and governance.
- Undertake deprescribing activities, reducing unnecessary medicines and minimising pharmaceutical waste.
- Provide professional leadership on the ward for medicines-related matters, including risk management, clinical governance, formulary compliance, service development, and expenditure awareness.
- Support safe and timely patient discharge through effective medicines reconciliation and coordination with the wider care team.
- Deliver high-quality, patient-facing care, engaging directly with patients and carers to support understanding and adherence.
- Contribute to the development of the workforce by providing education and training on medicines optimisation to ward-based staff.
Benefits
- £49,387 – £56,515 FTE (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving access to discounts on everyday purchases such as grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
- Access to wages as earned to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
- Online and face‑to‑face help with mental and physical wellbeing – healthy recipes, activity challenges, post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, and career coaching and counselling.
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
- An open, just culture encouraging ideas to deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
- Commitment to highest clinical and quality standards – the majority of our rated services hold 'good' or 'outstanding' ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Company, providing facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
