Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustPharmacist: Sexual Health and HIVJob summary- Are you a pharmacist interested in your next role?
- Have you got experience of working as a clinical pharmacist, managing a patient caseload and being part of a multidisciplinary team?
- Would you like a role that doesn't involve routine weekend, evening or bank holiday working?
- Have you ever thought about working within community based sexual health services?
If you answered yes, then we may just have the perfect role for you!
We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist and who has an interest in working in our HIV service; prior experience is wonderful, but not always essential as full training will be provided. Your existing clinical skills will be fully utilised supporting patients, where co-morbidity and polypharmacy will need to be considered alongside their HIV treatment.
We have a well-established multi-disciplinary HIV team including consultants, specialist nurses and pharmacy colleagues who have a broad range of skills and expertise.
Our Sexual Health service covers the Hampshire and Isle of Wight; we are a very busy, interesting, and innovative service. You will provide expert advice at a specialist level on HIV pharmaceutical matters for our service and will regularly provide training for our Sexual Health clinicians, patient groups and our organisational pharmacy staff. Based either at Bitterne Health Centre, Southampton or St Marys Hospital, Portsmouth. Travel to other sites will be required on an ad-hoc basis.
If this type of role interests you, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job- To be a valued member of the HIV Multidisciplinary Team, providing specialist advice to the clinical team and other members of the organisation
- To support patient adherence to HIV treatment, in association with the HIV Clinical Nurse Specialists & Specialist pharmacists.
- To give patients information and support around starting and changing HIV treatment, helping to manage the side effects of treatment.
- To provide pharmaceutical and medicines management information in relation to HIV/GUM and Sexual Health, within the service and the wider community organisation.
- To clinically screen HIV/GUM prescriptions to ensure adherence to set prescribing guidelines and protocols and to monitor prescribing to ensure clinical safety, and compliance with legislation and local and national policy and guidance.
- To support in the development of Patient Group Directives (PGDs) for Sexual Health and HIV/GUM.
- To support training for clinical staff working under PGDs.
- To promote the safe, effective, and economic use of medicines in line with the local formulary and national guidelines.
- To support specialist pharmacists in providing reports on medicines utilisation and finances
- To assist other healthcare professionals with advice on HIV and sexual health medication related issues.
- To line manage HIV co-ordinators
- Contributes to all aspects of clinical governance within the speciality including clinical risk and clinical audit
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: 06 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
Based on Full Time hours
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 6 months
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 348-CSS-11820
Job locations: St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth), Milton Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 6AD, United Kingdom; Bitterne Health Centre, Commercial Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO18 6BT, United Kingdom
Job descriptionFurther information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post Graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Master's degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
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.UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer contact detailsFor questions about the job, contact:Hiring Manager: Sarah Malcolm
Email: sarah.malcolm3@nhs.net
