Foundation or Specialist Pharmacist Fixed Term (1yr): Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Pharmacy Department

Foundation or Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – 1 Year Fixed Term

Band 6 or 7 (depending on experience) 1.0 WTE, 37.5hrs/week

Due to recent internal promotion, an expanding clinical service and staff maternity leave we are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced and committed clinical pharmacist to join our team.

We have an established rotational training programme for foundation and specialist pharmacists including key areas:Aseptic Services, Medicine, Surgery, Critical Care, Frailty, Stroke and Haematology/Oncology. We are particularly proud to host and provide the regional Renal Services & Renal Homecare service.

You will work alongside the Specialist and Advanced Pharmacists to provide medicines management services to Division B pharmacy team covering Surgery and Family Services. With the Medicine Management Technicians and the wider pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams you will support clinical pharmacy services for in and out-patients.

We are excited that our Trust is expanding to improve the care we provide to our patients with the recent opening of the new Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We are also planning for the opening of the new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit in 2027 – part of NHS England’s New Hospital Programme.

This fixed term role will provide a variety of opportunities to develop professionally and work across our services at Dorset County Hospital.

Main duties of the job

Key activities of the post holders will include

Management and review of in-patients requiring acute care across surgery

Operational support to the dispensary service

Screening for homecare prescriptions

Contributing towards the Cost Improvement Programme and management and review of in and out-patient medication

Review of guidelines and patient group directions to improve patient management and transfer of care between care providers

Review of incident reports and practice to support safer medicines use

Participating in the quality improvement and medicines optimisation programmes

Supporting the Advanced Pharmacists in incident review, guideline development, financial monitoring to improve process and support service development

Induction and training of pharmacy technicians and trainee foundation pharmacists

Providing oversight and support for pharmacy students when on placement with the department

You will be a highly valued member of the Pharmacy and specialist teams and committed to delivering outstanding medicines management.

Key personal qualities will be dedication, enthusiasm, a good team approach and the ability to work accurately under pressure in a very busy environment. Good communication skills and a flexible approach are essential.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services (B-7)
• Experience of working in mental health within the UK (B-7)
• Understands pharmacy priorities (B-7)
• Demonstrates awareness of good distribution practice (B-7)
• Demonstrates an awareness of patient safety concerns (B-7)
• Evidence of ability to influence prescribing practice (B-7)
• Demonstrates experience of clinical reasoning and judgement in practice (B-7)
• Experience in delivering educational material to junior colleagues (B-7)
• Experience in mentoring and coaching (B-7)
• Experience in clinical audit and implementation of outcomes (B-7)
• Implements the findings of pharmacy practice research (B-7)
• Demonstrates awareness of how research evidence is produced and distributed (B-7)
• Identifies own training needs (B-7)
• Maintains a portfolio of practice (B-7)
• Experience of pharmacy computer systems, including EPMA (B-6)
• Experience in Quality Improvement/Clinical Audit (B-6)
• Hospital experience through trainee foundation pharmacist year or other means (B-6)
• Understands pharmacy priorities (B-6)
• Understanding of Trust priorities (B-6)
• Awareness of patient safety concernsEvidence of current clinical knowledge (demonstrated level of competency necessary for the post) (B-6)

Desirable

• Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy setting (B-7)
• Experience in delivering a clinical pharmacy service to a range of clinical specialities (B-7)
• Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge and skills (B-7)
• Experience in clinical trials and GCP (B-7)
• Understanding of Trust and pharmacy priorities (B-7)
• Experience in delivering education and training within pharmacy (B-7)
• Experience of electronic prescribing and medicines administration (B-7)
• Demonstrates awareness of research evidence in clinical practice (B-7)
• Participation in pharmacy practice research and implements relevant findings (B-7)
• Meets own training needs (B-7)
• Post-registration experience as a pharmacist (B-6)
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance (B-6)
• Experience of providing training and supervision to pharmacy colleagues (B-6)
• Experience of presenting to formal meetings (B-6)

Education

Essential

• A minimum of two years post-registration experience in pharmacy (for AfC B7)
• Demonstrable evidence of competence at foundation level practice including medicine and surgery (AfC B7)
• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or satisfactory evidence of equivalent competence as demonstrated within a practice portfolio (AfC B7)
• Demonstrates a general (AfC B6)/ broad knowledge (AfC B7) of pharmacy practice
• Completion of a Master’s degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent) B-7
• Demonstrates the ability to deliver a clinical pharmacy service B-7
• Experience in clinical audit and implementation of outcomes
• Awareness of models of non-doctor prescribing (B-7)
• Demonstrates the ability to deliver a clinical pharmacy service (B-7)
• Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others (B-7)
• MPharm degree or equivalent. (B-6)
• GPhC registration. (B-6)

Desirable

• Demonstrable evidence of competence at foundation level practice in a further clinical area (B-7)
• Qualified as an independent non-medical prescriber (B-7)
• Identifies areas where non-doctor prescribing may be applicable to specialist practice (B-7)
• Identifies areas for practice improvements (B-7)
• Good Clinical Practice Certificate – clinical trials (B-7)
• Current Basic Life Support training (B-7)
• Member of the Royal College of Pharmacy (B-7)

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Essential

• Able to utilise a variety of pharmacy computer systems (Band-7)
• Adheres to legal standards and demonstrates knowledge of medicines legislation (Band-7)
• Understands pharmacy priorities (Band-7)
• Able to organise own workload (Band-7)
• Ability to evaluate quality of own work (Band-7)
• Collects data regarding service provision (Band-7)
• Ability to utilise email and word processing packages to support routine work activity (Band-7)
• Demonstrates ability to meet service targets (Band-7)
• Demonstrates initiative (Band-7)
• Able to work without direct supervision (Band-7)
• Demonstrates the ability to manage identified risks (Band-7)
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with patients and staff (Band-7)
• Able to identify and prioritise clinical workload for team (Band-7)
• Identifies appropriate therapeutic options (Band-7)
• Evidence of ability to influence prescribing practice (Band-7)
• Ability to communicate in a verbal or written manner with patients, junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff (Band-7)
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex information effectively (Band-7)
• Maintains standards of patient care (Band-7)
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance (Band-7)
• Demonstrable participation in clinical audit (Band-7)
• Demonstrates ability to work under pressure (Band-7)
• Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team (Band-7)
• Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to medicines use, and respects confidentiality (Band-7)
• Demonstrates good timekeeping (Band-7)
• Able to participate in the out of hours on-call service (Band-7)
• Able to work flexibly on rostered weekday late duties, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays(Band-7)
• Accurate dispensing/clinical checking skills (Band -6)
• Adherence to legal standards and knowledge of medicines legislation (Band -6)
• Evidence of being able to work effectively under pressure (Band -6)
• Evidence of good timekeeping (Band -6)
• Ability to plan and prioritise own work (Band -6)
• Good computer literacy (Band -6)
• Able to work without direct supervision with respect to medicines management issues. (Band -6)
• Ability to identify patient safety concerns (Band -6)
• Able to participate in out-of-hours on-call service (Band -6)
• Able to work on weekday late duties, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays (on rota) (Band -6)
• Good work attendance record (Band -6)
• Maintains standards of patient care (Band -6)
• Ability to communicate in a verbal or written manner with patients, pharmacy, nursing. Medical and other multidisciplinary staff (Band -6)
• Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to medicines use, respects confidentiality (Band -6)
• Identifies own training needs (Band -6)

Desirable

• Experience with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (Band-7)
• Experience in co-ordinating the day-to-day practice activities of others (Band-7)
• Identifies appropriate measures of service (Band-7)
• Ability to utilise presentation, spreadsheet and database software packages to support the work of the clinical pharmacy team (Band-7)
• Reports on data regarding service provision (Band-7)
• Ability to work autonomously (Band-7)
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and manage risks (Band-7)
• Demonstrates ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options (Band-7)
• Ability to communicate in a verbal or written manner and influence patients, junior pharmacy, nursing, medical, and other multidisciplinary staff (Band-7)
• Enhances standards of patient care (Band-7)
• Ability to implement audit outcomes (Band-7)
• Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of unavoidable work pressures (Band-7)
• Demonstrates ability to meet service targets (Band -6)
• Demonstrates initiative (Band -6)
• Able to evaluate quality of own work (Band -6)
• Implements the findings of pharmacy practice research (Band -6)

Closing Date: 17 August 2026