Specialist Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Specialist Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Are you an ambitious clinical pharmacist looking to take the next step in your career?

Whether you are a Band 6 pharmacist nearing completion of the first year of your clinical diploma or an experienced Band 7 pharmacist seeking to broaden your specialist knowledge, this rotational programme offers an exceptional opportunity to develop your clinical expertise within one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals.

At North Bristol NHS Trust, our Band 7 Specialist Rotational Clinical Pharmacist programme is designed to support pharmacists in building advanced clinical, leadership and service development skills across a diverse range of specialties. Each rotation lasts six months, allowing you to gain meaningful experience, develop specialist knowledge and contribute to service improvement initiatives while working alongside highly experienced multidisciplinary teams.

• Critical Care and Surgery
• Technical Services
• Neurosciences
• Same Day Emergency Care
• Acute Medicine and Frailty
• Infectious Diseases
• NHS@Home
• General Medicine
• HIV
• Respiratory Medicine
• Palliative Care
• Renal Medicine
• Elective Orthopaedic Surgery
• Pharmacoeconomics and ICB

Through our strong partnerships with the Integrated Care Board (ICB), we are also able to offer a unique Pharmacoeconomics and ICB rotation, providing valuable insight into medicines optimisation and healthcare commissioning.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop a diverse portfolio of clinical, leadership and service development experience while helping to deliver outstanding patient care.

As a Specialist Rotational Clinical Pharmacist, you will:

• Deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services to inpatients and outpatients across a variety of clinical specialties.
• Work as an integral member of multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient care and medicines use.
• Support lead specialist pharmacists in the delivery and development of pharmacy services.
• Contribute to medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship and quality improvement initiatives.
• Provide expert medicines information and advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Support the education and development of trainee pharmacists, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and students.
• Participate in service development projects and contribute to policy, guideline and pathway development.
• Contribute to the pharmacy weekend, late night and on‑call services.

We are a large pharmacy department with over 80 pharmacists including many highly specialist posts, pharmacist‑lead clinics, independent prescribers and consultant pharmacists. The clinical ward pharmacy service is well established and provided by clinical pharmacists and medicine management technicians. The pharmacy department is located in the Brunel building, which is a state‑of‑the‑art modern hospital opened in 2014.

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award‑winning hospital building  are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first‑class experience for everyone who uses our services.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti‑discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all under‑represented groups.

• In conjunction with the senior clinical pharmacists provide and develop a specialist pharmaceutical service within North Bristol NHS Trust aligned to the Trust Values.
• Deliver specific improvements in the management of patients medication to facilitate the discharge process by utilising ward‑based…