Job summaryWe are seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join our well-established, friendly team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who provide clinical support to mental health units, community hospitals and community teams across Hampshire. This role is for 30 hrs per week.
The post is based at The Orchards Mental Health Unit at St James Hospital in Portsmouth and the successful applicant will provide regular clinical pharmacist support here and at the OPMH inpatient wards in Gosport War Memorial Hospital. You will also work closely with the East Region (Portsmouth and South East) pharmacy team to provide clinical cover to Older Persons Mental Health and community rehabilitation wards.
As part of the role you will be able to gain experience in other specialities such as Learning Disabilities, CAMHS, adult, LD and CAMHS forensic services and End of Life.
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the clinical service is of high quality and patient focused, help to identify gaps and problem areas in the service and use appropriate methods including quality improvement. The post holder will deliver an efficient, high quality, professional and well-coordinated clinical pharmacy service. This will include the provision of prescribing advice to medical teams and medicines management to the multidisciplinary teams and patients at ward/clinic level.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact: Ana Alves, Lead Pharmacist - East Region
Main duties of the jobYour work will focus on enhancing patient safety in medicines practice including medicines reconciliation, providing clinical professional advice to prescribers as part of a multi-disciplinary team, discharge planning, clinical audit, and teaching.
Key areas of practice will be to:
- Utilise pharmaceutical expertise, working in partnership with patients, carers and healthcare professionals to minimise medicines-related harm and facilitating medicines optimisation.
- Provide clinical pharmacy advice and participate in the pharmaceutical services to the East Region (Portsmouth and South East).
- Monitor drug usage and promote cost effective prescribing.
About usHampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.
DetailsDate posted: 20 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Based on full time hours
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 348-COR-12942
Job locations: The Orchards, St James' Hospital, Locksway Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO4 8FE, United Kingdom
Person SpecificationQualifications- Essential: Masters Degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration/foundation year training.
- Essential: Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Desirable: Postgraduate Diploma (or MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience (or willing to work towards this).
- Desirable: Independent prescriber qualification.
Experience- Essential: Post registration experience working as a pharmacist.
- Essential: Demonstrate the ability to recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information appropriately to patients, carers, and clinical staff.
- Essential: Experience of delivering training and education.
- Essential: Experience of working in a constantly changing environment.
- Desirable: Post-registration experience working community health services and/or in mental health services.
- Desirable: Experience of ward based clinical pharmacy.
- Desirable: Experience of working with older persons.
- Desirable: Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure.
- Desirable: To have undertaken clinical audit.
Additional Criteria- Essential: Aware and able to respond to customer needs.
- Essential: Able to cope with stressful situations.
- Essential: Demonstrates assertiveness in difficult situations.
- Essential: Able to be flexible.
- Essential: The ability to identify and prioritise work.
- Essential: Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
- Essential: The ability to identify and manage risks.
- Essential: Up to date and familiar with evidence-based medicine, medicines information and medicines knowledge.
- Essential: Knowledge and understanding of prescribing and drug costs and how they relate to the local health economy.
- Desirable: Teaching and presentation skills.
- Desirable: To have an awareness of national and local priorities.
- Desirable: Sound knowledge of drug management of physical health disorders as well as mental health disorders, including national guidance.
- Desirable: Clinical and critical appraisal skills.
- Desirable: Able to influence all grades of medical staff.
- Desirable: Evidence of writing procedures, clinical guidelines, and policy/protocols.
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer contact detailsHiring Manager: Ana Alves, ana.alves13@nhs.net, 07386659488
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