Job Summary
Band 8a: £33,414 – £37,609
Part‑time hours: 22.5 per week
Permanent contract
Reports to: Senior Pharmacist Team Lead for Medicine and OPM
Location
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3LY
Main Duties
Leads the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to the respiratory directorate in accordance with the pharmacy care group:
* Provides pharmaceutical advice and develops Clinical Pharmacy Services to Respiratory in order to optimise patient benefit from treatment with medicines and ensure the safe, efficacious and cost-effective use of medicines.
* Undertakes risk management and ensures compliance with medicines legislation.
* Be the named pharmacist for the COPD service.
* Responsible for financial savings within respiratory medicine.
* Deliver an education and training programme relevant to role.
Key Dimensions
* Capital and Revenue Budgets – contributory impact on the medicines budgets for Respiratory.
* Staff Numbers – supervises and manages rotational pharmacists and tutor trainee pharmacists.
Job Responsibilities
* Providing clinical pharmacy expertise in use of medicines for patients within the Respiratory Directorate during an inpatient hospital stay or on an outpatient, homecare or day case basis.
* Participating in multidisciplinary meetings as required for the service.
* Providing support to the regional TB service.
* Undertaking the role of pharmacy Independent prescriber, with the appropriate qualifications where required.
* Identifying potential and clinical development to the Respiratory directorate and planning the implementation to ensure services continue to meet customers requirements and income is sufficient to fund development.
* Interpreting budgetary information for Respiratory directorate staff at agreed intervals to ensure that significant variances are highlighted together with proposals for appropriate action.
* Assisting the Pharmacist Team Leader for Medicine in evaluating the costs and benefits of new drug developments and presenting evaluated information to division and directorate lead clinicians and managers to aid in deciding whether new products or approaches to treatment should be used.
* Assisting clinicians in preparing business case applications to the Formulary and Medicines Group and/or Area Prescribing Committee, and taking cases of need to purchasers to secure funding for new products or approaches to treatment.
* Contributing to the production of prescribing guidelines and PGDs/PSDs to ensure that antimicrobials and respiratory medicines are used safely and maximize benefits to patients within available resources.
* Participating in monthly respiratory governance meetings as the lead for clinical governance of medicines management issues, ensuring issues are communicated with the respiratory service.
* Tutor a trainee pharmacist or postgraduate pharmacist student.
* Providing training, teaching and support to underpin CPD and postgraduate qualifications in the Pharmacy department and delivering general and specialist pharmaceutical education to other healthcare professionals.
Experience
* Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
* Hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy services.
* Participation in weekly dispensary cover, bank holiday and weekend working to demonstrate maintenance of basic pharmacy services and personal competency.
* Previous experience of respiratory medicine including COPD, asthma and biological therapy.
* Previous experience of working within a multi‑disciplinary team in a clinic setting.
* Previous experience of homecare services.
* Previous management experience.
* Previous leadership experience.
* Previous education and training experience.
* Identifying and implementing change to processes and team culture.
Skills and Knowledge
* Good interpersonal skills.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Demonstrable ability to prioritise, organise and manage workload in an environment with frequent disruptions.
* Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others.
* Demonstrable ability to work in a team.
* Demonstrable confidence as a clinical pharmacist.
* Demonstrable ability to use initiative.
* Demonstrable ability to maintain quality standards.
* Sound knowledge of acute medical therapeutics.
* Experience of writing clinical guidelines.
* Experience of leading a team.
* Word and data processing.
* Clinical appraisal skills.
* Experience of writing shared care protocols and Patient Group Directions.
* Experience of providing education to multi‑disciplinary teams.
* Experience of leading service development.
Qualifications
* Masters or Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy.
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy.
* Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
* NMP qualification or working towards and eligible for training.
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* Member of specialist pharmacist practice group (e.g., UKCPA).
Additional Information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) is required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please refer to the NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3LY
Employer's website: https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/work-for-us/
Reference
REF1939L
Date Posted
13 February 2026
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