Job overview

We’re delighted to offer two exciting opportunities for motivated and dynamic Clinical Pharmacists to join our friendly and forward-thinking pharmacy team at Southend Hospital, part of the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the delivery of a high-quality clinical pharmacy service, working within a supportive and collaborative team that values innovation, professional growth, and patient-centred care. Our pharmacists are a welcoming and proactive group, always striving to enhance ways of working to benefit both patients and colleagues.

As a Clinical Pharmacist, you’ll rotate across a variety of specialist areas, including General Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Medicine for the Elderly, and Technical Services, gaining invaluable experience across the Trust. You’ll also contribute to the provision of our on-call service, helping to ensure continuity of excellent care.

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring enthusiasm, flexibility, and strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships across multidisciplinary teams.

In return, you’ll benefit from a range of career development opportunities, with access to ongoing training and mentorship both within Southend Hospital and across the wider Trust.

If you’re looking for a role where your expertise, ideas, and ambition will be valued and supported — we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge service, outpatients, technical services unit and other service users.

Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.

Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.

Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.

Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.

Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.

Take part in the emergency On-call Pharmacist rota working alone as the On call Pharmacist, providing medicines information, advice and supply out of hours and sourcing of urgently-required drugs from external suppliers.

To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Governance team with the medicines optimisation and governance 
agenda.

Ensure clinical incidents e.g. dispensing or administration errors are reported promptly according to current risk management procedures.

Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.

Facilitate implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g.  NICE.

Keep accurate patient medication and drug issue records using the Pharmacy Wellsky computer system.

Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward-based 
technicians.

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
 
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.