Rotational Clinical Pharmacist | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our junior rotational programme. With the current and future landscape for pharmacy professionals we have aligned our clinical pharmacy strategy to develop a pharmacy team that can excel in balancing patient care and service demand with their own professional development. You will have rotational opportunities across several specialties along with daily opportunities to work as part of an MDT and develop your interpersonal, professional & clinical skills.

We are a forward-thinking department and are actively embedding pharmacist prescribers into our services, with Pharmacist IPs working in Medicine, Surgery, Heart Failure, Oncology, Community Services & OPAT to-date.

We aim to produce a workforce equipped with strong clinical knowledge, a positive attitude, and a great team ethic. During your rotations you will be supported with protected learning time and mentorship via the pharmacist professional development programme underpinned by RPS standards to develop your skills. This post is ideally suited both to pre-registration or newly qualified pharmacists, and community pharmacists interested in a sector change.

PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the provision of a comprehensive pharmaceutical service to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and to those organisations with which the Trust has a contract for supply of pharmaceutical services.
• Undertakes clinical pharmacy duties to delegated wards, advising junior & senior medical staff and nurses on effective and safe prescribing and administration of medicines.
• Provides training and support to the undergraduate, pre-registration pharmacists & less experienced pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and, where requested, other ward staff.
• Undertakes risk assessments and implements risk reducing measures, where appropriate reviewing and updating safe systems of work on a regular basis.
• Post holders will be required to undertake weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.
• Participates in the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust rotational training programme for training grade pharmacists. As part of the rotational training programme, the post holder will provide ward based clinical services, supporting safe prescribing and administration of medicines in the allocated wards/departments of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, ensuring clinical practice is evidence based, shared, and, wherever possible, patient focused. Will also provide patient counselling and assist in the provision of Medicines Information as part of their role.
• Professionally checks prescriptions in the dispensary, including those for cytotoxic drugs, clinical trials and controlled drugs, and assists in dispensing and final checking as required.
• Complies with the Clinical Pharmacy Service Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring that the Chief Pharmacist is made aware of any circumstances that would, or may, militate against safe standards of clinical practice. Reports, and encourages other to report, all Adverse Drug reactions in-line with departmental guidelines.
• Promotes awareness of and assists in the implementation of the Trust’s Medicines Management Group decisions, including the current contents of the formulary and Trust Pharmacy Policies, and assists medical and prescribing nursing staff to adjust prescribing practices in line with the evidence base and formulary requirements.
• Will comply with the requirement of Clinical Pharmacy productivity tools and audits assigned and maintain full records of clinical activity and interventions using pharmacy electronic systems.
• Post-holder will be required to undertake late night, weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.

Qualifications/Experience

• This post is ideally suited to pre-registration or newly qualified pharmacists, and community pharmacists interested in a sector change.
• Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust context and rotational training as described in the advert.

This advert closes on Friday 7 Nov 2025