Employer Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Hampshire County Hospital Town Winchester Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/09/2025 23:59 Interview date 09/10/2025
Specialist Pharmacist for Elective Orthopaedic Surgery
Band 7
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
We have an exciting new opportunity to welcome a clinical pharmacist to our innovative and progressive Hampshire Hospitals Pharmacy team to support the new ICS collaboration in the Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC). This is a unique role in which you can develop your specialist skillset and advance your clinical skills.
* As a specialist Pharmacist, you will spend time in a patient facing role working in HOC to support the clinical service.
* You will gain experience and training to enhance your advanced clinical skills and non-clinical skills. The Trust has a strong multidisciplinary approach with extended roles for non-medical staff.
* The successful candidate will be provided with the support of the HOC and Pharmacy teams, opportunities to develop and embed their careers, and to make a difference to patients’ lives.
Main duties of the job
· To support the development and delivery of the Clinical Pharmacy Service provided to Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC), with responsibility for staff management in line with pharmacy objectives set by the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Line manager.
· To collaborate with the Lead Pharmacist for Surgery to ensure the provision of an effective and efficient service for all patients of the services.
· This post is part of the multidisciplinary and clinical pharmacy teams and will work at a specialist level providing a medicines optimisation service to the surgical division, focusing on the HOC.
· To act as an independent non-medical prescriber, in accordance with the Health & Social Care Act 2001, specialising in an area of choice relevant to the surgical division.
· To manage staff to ensure the effective operation of the services provided to the speciality.
· The post holder has joint responsibility with the other specialist and clinical pharmacists within the clinical team for the overall leadership of the clinical pharmacy service to orthopaedics.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - please ask at interview.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached
We welcome applications from pharmacists who may not meet all the essential criteria or who have gained clinical experience in primary care.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
* GPHC registration
* Certificate in Pharmacy Practice
* Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
* Educational Supervisor
* Management and Leadership Training
* Independent prescriber
Experience & Knowledge
* Work in a hospital clinical pharmacy environment
* Experience of Consultant ward rounds
Skills and Ability
* Work as part of a MDT
* Ability to organise self and others
* Good computer and keyboard skills
* Professional presentation of self
* Enthusiastic and self-motivated
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
* HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
* Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
* All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
* In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
* This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
* We believe that using technology wisely reflects strong time management and a commitment to innovation. However, it's essential to personalise your recruitment application to showcase your unique skills and experiences. Over-reliance on generic, AI-generated content may result in rejection if multiple candidates submit applications with similar language or structure. In such cases, recruiting managers may reach out for further clarity where applications appear consistent with others, to better understand your individual strengths.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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