Senior Pharmacist – Acute Medicine: Sponsorship Available

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Would you like the opportunity to work as an integral member of our Acute Medicine multidisciplinary team to provide a high level of clinical pharmacy care and expertise for patients treated for a variety of complex medical conditions?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative pharmacist to join our clinical pharmacy team to work within the acute medicine team at Musgrove Park Hospital.

Main duties of the job

As a specialist pharmacist working as an integral member of the acute medicine multidisciplinary team, you’ll implement and deliver high quality clinical pharmacy services. You will provide a high level of clinical pharmacy care and expertise for patients on our Acute Medical Unit, treated for a variety of complex medical conditions.

You’ll develop strong links between the pharmacy service and the acute medicine service, extending the boundaries of professional pharmacy practice, including direct patient prescribing, counselling for high risk medications, education and training, audit and quality improvement work, governance and incident reviews.

If you are passionate about improving patient care through expert clinical pharmacy practice, we’d love to hear from you.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • Masters degree or equivalent in Pharmacy
  • Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
  • Registered independent prescriber or willing to undertake training

Desirable

  • Please see the attached JD

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable hospital pharmacy experience delivering clinical pharmacy practice at an advanced level.
  • Demonstrable clinical pharmacy experience of general medicine, general surgery (including non-specialist service provision to acute and emergency patients)
  • Significant experience in medicines management of patients with complex medical conditions and polypharmacy.

Desirable

  • Experience in clinical training and/or mentoring of pharmacy staff.
  • Experience of staff appraisal and objective setting.

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Maintains a broad knowledge of clinical and pharmacy practice
  • Demonstrable commitment to continuous professional development
  • Evidence of a good standard of Literacy / English language skills
  • Good communicator, motivated, able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure

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: 29 November 2026

To apply for this job please visit somersetft.tal.net.