Clinical Pharmacist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 6/7 Clinical Pharmacist to join a supportive pharmacy team at Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. The post offers an excellent opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic pharmacist to develop clinical skills, working across community and mental health inpatient wards. The successful candidate will deliver high-quality clinical pharmacy services and be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. Both newly qualified pharmacists with hospital experience and existing Band 6 pharmacists seeking a Band 7 post are encouraged to apply.
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy degree (BPharm or MPharm)
- Postgraduate Pharmacy Certificate or Diploma for band 7
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Member of the Royal College of Pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate Pharmacy Certificate or Diploma for band 6
- Continuous Professional Development
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Previous Experience
- Significant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy for band 7
- Experience of providing medicines information to patients/carers
- Experience of audit or project work
- Supervision of staff for band 7
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and making clinically appropriate interventions for band 7
- Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives on time
- Pre-registration training year in hospital pharmacy
- Significant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy for band 6
- Basic experience in mental health inpatient setting
- Supervision of staff for band 6
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and making clinically appropriate interventions for band 6
- Experience working within Medicines Information
- Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Excellent interpersonal communication and reporting skills, verbal and written (tact, empathy, negotiation, diplomacy)
- Proficient in all Microsoft Office software with proven computer literacy and IT skills including email, word processing, spreadsheets, databases
- Demonstrate high level of professional autonomy, prioritisation and decision making for band 7
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Reliable with a good attendance record
- Demonstrates good clinical knowledge and skills
- Critical appraisal skills for band 7
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritise and to meet deadlines
- Proactive in seeking out opportunities for service improvement for band 7
- Demonstrate high level of professional autonomy, prioritisation and decision making for band 6
- Critical appraisal skills for band 6
- Proactive in seeking out opportunities for service improvement for band 6
- Additional Requirements
- Ability and willingness to travel across all Trust sites within the Berkshire Health economy
- Ability to work in restricted/hot desk areas as and when required
- Flexible approach to work patterns in line with needs of the service including EDC
- Education, qualifications or training
- Pharmacy degree (BPharm or MPharm)
- Postgraduate Pharmacy Certificate or Diploma for band 7
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Member of the Royal College of Pharmacy
- Postgraduate Pharmacy Certificate or Diploma for band 6
- Continuous Professional Development
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Previous Experience
- Significant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy for band 7
- Experience of providing medicines information to patients/carers
- Experience of audit or project work
- Supervision of staff for band 7
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and making clinically appropriate interventions for band 7
- Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives on time
- Pre-registration training year in hospital pharmacy
- Significant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy for band 6
- Basic experience in mental health inpatient setting
- Supervision of staff for band 6
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team and making clinically appropriate interventions for band 6
- Experience working within Medicines Information
- Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Excellent interpersonal communication and reporting skills, verbal and written (tact, empathy, negotiation, diplomacy)
- Proficient in all Microsoft Office software with proven computer literacy and IT skills including email, word processing, spreadsheets, databases
- Demonstrate high level of professional autonomy, prioritisation and decision making for band 7
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Reliable with a good attendance record
- Demonstrates good clinical knowledge and skills
- Critical appraisal skills for band 7
- Ability to work under pressure, priori
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £41,957 – £50,387 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 3d ago · Closes in 14d
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Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Clinical Pharmacist
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
We are recruiting a band 6/7 clinical pharmacist to join our friendly and supportive pharmacy team. Both band 6 and band 7 applicants are welcomed. The post offers an excellent opportunity for a dynamic, self-motivated, and enthusiastic pharmacist looking to develop their clinical skills. This is also an ideal opportunity for either a newly qualified pharmacist (with hospital pharmacy experience) or an existing and ambitious band 6 pharmacist looking for a band 7 post. We will support you in your professional development.
This post is a full time, permanent contract and based at Prospect Park Hospital although we also have inpatient sites in Newbury, Wokingham, Maidenhead and Slough. The postholder will be part of rotation plans which will include covering mental and community health wards, dispensary, medicines information and medicines safety.
Prospect Park Hospital is based in Tilehurst, a leafy suburb of Reading, 30 mins by train from London Paddington and Waterloo stations. We offer free onsite parking, top staff accommodation less than a 5-minute walk from your base.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to deliver a consistently high-quality clinical pharmacy service across community and mental health inpatient wards
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