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Band 7 PharmacistNHS Professionals Limited • Watford, United Kingdom
Band 7 Pharmacist

Band 7 Pharmacist

NHS Professionals Limited • Watford, United Kingdom
27 days ago
Job type
  • Part-time
Job description
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Pharmacist to join the Pharmacy Department at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care across a range of clinical specialties. This position offers the chance to work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including consultants, junior doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, and community healthcare providers, ensuring patients receive safe, effective, and evidence-based medicines management throughout their treatment journey. You will have the opportunity to utilise and further develop your clinical expertise while contributing to service improvements, medicines optimisation initiatives, and the delivery of excellent patient outcomes within a busy acute hospital environment.

Main duties of the job
This role is ideal for an experienced pharmacist looking to broaden their clinical experience while taking on additional responsibilities in supervision, education, clinical governance, and service development. You will support and mentor junior pharmacy colleagues, contribute to audits and quality improvement projects, and assist in developing clinical guidelines and protocols that enhance patient safety and operational efficiency. Working within a forward-thinking Pharmacy Department, you will be encouraged to engage in continuous professional development, helping to shape and improve pharmacy services while making a meaningful contribution to patient care across the Trust.

About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job responsibilities
  • Provide a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service, ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines while supporting the therapeutic goals of patients and prescribers.
  • Review and monitor prescriptions for clinical appropriateness, formulary compliance, and cost-effective prescribing, providing expert pharmaceutical advice to multidisciplinary teams.
  • Deliver complex medicines information to patients, carers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, supporting informed decision-making and optimal patient outcomes.
  • Support the safe and efficient supply of medicines through ward-based pharmacy services, dispensary duties, medicines optimisation initiatives, and management of patients own drugs.
  • Monitor, investigate, and report adverse drug reactions, medication incidents, and controlled drug discrepancies in line with Trust policies and national guidance.
  • Supervise, support, and act as a role model for junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, pre-registration pharmacists, and pharmacy students.
  • Contribute to clinical governance, audit, service improvement, guideline development, protocol reviews, and research activities aimed at enhancing patient care and medicines management.
  • Maintain compliance with Trust policies, medicines legislation, General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) standards, and professional ethics while supporting the ongoing development of pharmacy services across the Trust.

Person SpecificationQualifications
  • To be successful in applying for this role you will need:
  • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
  • MPharm degree or equivalent recognised pharmacy qualification.
  • Post-registration hospital pharmacy experience.
  • Strong clinical knowledge and experience of medicines optimisation.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
  • Experience supervising or supporting junior pharmacy staff and trainees.
  • Knowledge of medicines legislation, governance requirements, and pharmacy best practice.
  • Experience in audit, service improvement, or clinical governance activities would be advantageous.

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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