Specialist Pharmacist for Elective Orthopaedic Surgery

Overview

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The closing date is 29 September 2025

We have an exciting new opportunity to welcome a clinical pharmacist to our innovative and progressive Hampshire Hospitals Pharmacy team to support the new ICS collaboration in the Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC). This is a unique role in which you can develop your specialist skillset and advance your clinical skills.

Responsibilities

• As a specialist Pharmacist, you will spend time in a patient facing role working in HOC to support the clinical service.
• You will gain experience and training to enhance your advanced clinical skills and non-clinical skills. The Trust has a strong multidisciplinary approach with extended roles for non-medical staff.
• The successful candidate will be provided with the support of the HOC and Pharmacy teams, opportunities to develop and embed their careers, and to make a difference to patients' lives.

Main duties of the job

To support the development and delivery of the Clinical Pharmacy Service provided to Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC), with responsibility for staff management in line with pharmacy objectives set by the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Line manager.

To collaborate with the Lead Pharmacist for Surgery to ensure the provision of an effective and efficient service for all patients of the services.

This post is part of the multidisciplinary and clinical pharmacy teams and will work at a specialist level providing a medicines optimisation service to the surgical division, focusing on the HOC.

To act as an independent non-medical prescriber, in accordance with the Health & Social Care Act 2001, specialising in an area of choice relevant to the surgical division.

To manage staff to ensure the effective operation of the services provided to the speciality.

The post holder has joint responsibility with the other specialist and clinical pharmacists within the clinical team for the overall leadership of the clinical pharmacy service to orthopaedics.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Job responsibilities

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - please ask at interview.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached

We welcome applications from pharmacists who may not meet all the essential criteria or who have gained clinical experience in primary care.

Person Specification Training and Qualifications

• GPHC registration
• Certificate in Pharmacy Practice
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
• Educational Supervisor
• Management and Leadership Training
• Independent prescriber

Experience & Knowledge

• Work in a hospital clinical pharmacy environment
• Experience of Consultant ward rounds

Skills and Ability

• Work as part of a MDT
• Ability to organise self and others
• Good computer and keyboard skills
• Professional presentation of self
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated

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.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 per year pro rata