Specialist NHS@ Pharmacist

The closing date is 25 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and adaptable registered Pharmacist to join our small, friendly but progressive inpatient department at Weston General Hospital, which is part of the wider University Hospitals of Bristol and Weston NHS Trust (UHBW).

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The Highly Specialist NHS@Home Pharmacist Band 8a has funding for a part time post (24 hours per week).

You will have recent hospital experience, have excellent communication, influencing and problem solving skills and preferably good mentoring, reaching and assessment skills to enable you to take on this influential role within our Trust.

• Work as a highly specialised practitioner to deliver the clinical pharmacy aspects of the NHS@Home service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, national legislation and standards.
• Demonstrate a whole-system patient-focused approach, working across boundaries to contribute to the development of virtual ward services within the BNSSG locality.
• Provide individualised care to patients in their own homes, working across the interface between primary and secondary care.
• Represent pharmacy and the Trust at external meetings and on external groups and ensure services meet national quality standards.
• You will also support the wider pharmacy team to deliver a comprehensive, safe and cost effective clinical pharmacy for the hospital as a whole.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.

Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

• Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

• Varied experience of working in NHS hospital pharmacy
• Experience of working in a variety of different sized teams
• Experience of communicating with and advising all healthcare professionals on drug therapy
• Experience of writing a wide range of documents including drug usage and audit reports, SOPs, protocols and guidelines and other information to healthcare professionals
• Experience of audit and project work.
• Drug expenditure analysis and reporting

• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Innovative & creative problem identification and solving
• Self‑organisational and time management
• Quality improvement techniques including clinical audit
• Good general awareness of finance such as drug expenditure trends, horizon scanning, and cost improvement targets
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own and others’ work to meet agreed deadlines
• Ability to use judgement to challenge inappropriate prescribing and influence prescribing decisions to enable optimal therapy
• Ability to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness, clinical risk, cost‑effectiveness, adherence to local & national guidance and legality
• Confident and articulate
• Self‑motivated and enthusiastic
• Professional approach
• Flexible and adaptable to the needs of the service

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum, pro rata for part time roles.