Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Acute Medicine and Admissions

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Job summary

NHS Band 8a Salary:£57,528 – £64,750 per annum

Hours per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

We are recruiting for a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”.

Permanent opportunities for up to full-time working if desired.

The Pharmacy department which is based out of St Mary’s Hospital is energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) embedded in practice across the Trust and used creatively to enhance clinical practice. This is along with a fully integrated medicines management system which interfaces EPMA seamlessly with dispensing, stock control, and automation/robotics throughout the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MasterofPharmacy (MPharm) degree or equivalent
  • Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
  • Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent experience.
  • Completed general level framework competency training or equivalent experience.
  • Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
  • Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience. Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
  • Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
  • Specialist knowledge and experience in clinical speciality.

Physical Skills

Essential

  • Able to work at a continuous level of high concentration.
  • Excellent time management.

Aptitudes

Essential

  • Articulate and numerate.
  • Accurate and precise.
  • Honest, trustworthy, reliable and discrete.
  • Clean and presentable in appearance.
  • Enthusiastic and willing to learn.
  • Adaptable and innovative in approach to work and projects.
  • Uses initiative and open to change/use of technology and extended roles.
  • Willing to participate in personal development and prepared to work outside “normal” working hours.

Abilities

Essential

  • Able to record information accurately.
  • Able to work as part of a team or as an individual with a flexible approach to duties. Customer care.
  • Able to share learning with others.
  • Able to interpret complex clinical data.
  • Ability to relate well at all levels within the NHS.
  • Able to negotiate with other healthcare professionals in relation to pharmaceutical care of patients
  • Ability to work effectively with senior clinical personnel.

Communication Skills

Essential

  • Fluent in oral and written English
  • Approachable and diplomatic.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 14 August 2026

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