Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine and Admissions | Isle of Wight NHS Trust


Company:	Isle of Wight NHS
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 pro rata, per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	24 Aug 2026
Closing date:	23 Sept 2026

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Summary

NHS Band 8a Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Hours per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

We are recruiting for a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”.

Permanent opportunities for up to full-time working if desired.

The Pharmacy department which is based out of St Mary’s Hospital is energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) embedded in practice across the Trust and used creatively to enhance clinical practice. This is along with a fully integrated medicines management system which interfaces EPMA seamlessly with dispensing, stock control, and automation/robotics throughout the Trust.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide leadership within the pharmacy team and across the Trust in clinical areas as required. Working with internal and external stakeholders whilst accountable to the Trust Chief Pharmacist.

Key responsibilities will be:

Leading, co-ordinating, delivering and developing clinical services within admissions across the emergency floor.

Development of policies, procedures, guidelines, risk assessments and audits.

Promoting a culture of medicines safety to minimise harm, optimising learning from incidents and responding to safety alerts.

Supervising, training, and supporting the development of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals

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This advert closes on Monday 30 Nov 2026

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