Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Bank role
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 301-Bank-26-7855816
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges/ Redwoods
- Town
- Stafford/Shrewsbury
- Salary
- Pro rata dependant on experience
- Closing
- 20/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Clinical Pharmacist Band 6/7
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Bank Clinical Pharmacist
Band 6/7 depending on experience
Up to full time hours
Working at St Georges Hospital Stafford or Redwoods Shrewsbury.
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Main duties of the job
To ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care both throughout their admission to hospital and following discharge into assigned community mental/physical health teams. This post involves being part of a team of specialist clinical pharmacists playing an active role in inpatient multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.. This post involves playing an active role in inpatient and community multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.
Working for our organisation
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.
Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.
We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for full details.
Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient wards within MPFT.
· Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
· Visit allocated wards and community team bases to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, thereby ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
· Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals, thereby contributing to their safe, effective and economical use.
· Provide pharmaceutical input at multi-disciplinary team meetings, rapid review meetings and community team meetings where necessary undertaking patient medication histories and devising pharmaceutical care plans.
· Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate diploma in Psychiatric or Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Validated experience working in hospital as a clinical pharmacist and/or in mental health
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstration of up to date clinical knowledge in specialist area
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of medicines legislation
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Akila Ahmed
- Job title
- Deputy Director Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03007907000
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