Specialist Pharmacist- Rotational

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.