Pharmacist

Job summary
For your information sponsorship for this role is not available. The Pharmacist is responsible for delivering safe, effective, and patient-centred pharmaceutical services while ensuring compliance with professional, legal, and regulatory standards. The role involves the clinical and accuracy checking of outpatient and discharge prescriptions, providing expert medicines advice to patients and healthcare teams, supporting oral chemotherapy prescribing processes, and promoting safe medicines management. The post holder contributes to the day-to-day operation of the pharmacy, supports staff development and team performance, monitors quality and governance standards, and acts as the Responsible Pharmacist when required. Working collaboratively with clinical teams and stakeholders, the Pharmacist helps ensure excellent customer service, timely patient care, service improvement, and the achievement of both operational and business objectives.

Main duties of the job
The Pharmacist plays a key role in co-ordinating and developing a team to deliver a safe, effective and caring service to manage the pharmaceutical needs of patients attending the outpatient pharmacy. Working closely with and alongside the Deputy Superintendent Pharmacist and Superintendent pharmacist, the pharmacist will be responsible for delivering an effective service, including screening and clinically checking prescriptions.

They will also be responsible for maintaining excellent relationships with patients and other stakeholders and through this achieve excellent healthcare and business performance.

About us
SWFT Clinical Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of the South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT). The company provides a number of services such as outpatient pharmacy facilities at Warwick, Stratford upon Avon, George Eliot, University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire and St Cross (Rugby) hospitals; estates and facilities management at Warwick, Stratford upon Avon and Ellen Badger hospitals, Acorn House and Lillington Health Hub; private patient service and consultancy services to NHS Trusts.

Subject to the Company and individual's performance, an annual discretionary bonus will be awarded.

There is automatic enrolment to the Company pension scheme, with the Company contributing 5%.

A benefits package is available to the appointed candidate upon successful completion of the six month probationary period. This gives access to benefits such as a car lease scheme; Home & Electronics scheme; discounted leisure and travel; retail discounts and a cycle to work scheme.

There is also access to a 24/7, 365 days a year Employee Assistance Programme to support colleagues who may be facing some tough times or they need extra support with their mental well-being.

Job responsibilities

• Fulfils the professional duties of a registered Pharmacist to statutory standards and codes of practice in accordance with best practice and acts effectively and ethically to meet needs.
• Co-ordinates and contributes to the day-to-day operations of the Pharmacy, which will include clinical, and accuracy checks of hospital prescriptions and TTO prescriptions to ensure patients are discharged in a timely manner.
• Provide advice and information on medicines management and stock supplies to patients and the wider clinical teams to have a greater impact on safe and accurate prescribing and to ensure better compliance with patients.
• Support the chemotherapy screening pharmacists in performing accuracy checks on prescriptions for oral SACT and supportive medicines.
• Support the counter assistant in the sale of over-the-counter sales of medicines with appropriate advice where needed.
• Shares in developing the business plan, drives performance against it, and contributes to the delivery of elements of the business plan (professional best practice, sales and profitability) on time and in full.
• Recruits, trains, accredits and develops staff to meet business and professional needs, builds team spirit and motivation, leads by example, and on delegation from the Pharmacy Manager, monitors performance, including performance reviews.
• In the statutory role of Responsible Pharmacist, assures service quality, and patient safety, through the application of policies and procedures, effective systems and competent personnel. Helps the Superintendent Pharmacy Manager to respond promptly to new guidelines or professional standards. Aware of MHRA recalls and acts accordingly.
• Maintains a professional and clinical network for the sharing of ideas, advice, information and peer support. Liaises with Trust staff to support our common goal.
• Monitors team performance against a range of key performance indicators, including customer satisfaction (and the prompt and effective response to complaints), value for money, formulary compliance, response to incidents, errors and product alerts. Contributes to periodic reviews with the Trust Head of Pharmacy as the commissioner of services and with the Managing Director. Submits and acts upon DATIX/Inphase incidents.
• Maintains excellent working relationships and good communications with commissioners, customers and medical staff.
• Ensures confidentiality and clinical information, which may relate to customers, staff, Company policies, prices, business information, and takes account of requirements of the Data Protection Act and Freedom on Information legislation.
• Ensures that paperwork is completed accurately and on time, provides information and reports in a concise manner, communications issues and proposed actions as appropriate, and attends meetings as required by the Company.
• Manages their own personal development, including fulfilment of the annual CPD requirement of a pharmacist, and any future requirement for period revalidation for professional practice.
• Adhere to H&S, equal opportunities and all other relevant legislations. Communicates to Pharmacy Manager to ensure policies and SOPS are updated and acted upon.
• Completes SWFT oral chemotherapy training to enable the clinical screening of prescriptions.
• May be required to open and close the pharmacy when necessary, so will be required to be a key holder.
• Any other relevant duties at the request of the line manager

Communications and Working Relationships:

• Engender a customer first culture across the organisation ensuring high standards of professional customer service are delivered at all times within the pharmacy.
• To provide a liaison service between users and suppliers to fulfil the customer need.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy (Masters or equivalent)
• Current UK registration as Pharmacist

Desirable

• Clinical Diploma
• Leadership courses

Experience
Essential

• Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy experience Community Pharmacy experience in the UK with some NHS enhanced or advanced services
• NHS Hospital prescribing awareness (formularies, etc.) which may have been achieved through dispensing hospital outpatient scripts and/or monitored dose dispensing of discharge meds in the community

Skills
Desirable

• Knowledge of Wellsky/ CMM
• Knowledge of EPR system.

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Ability to resume the role of responsible pharmacist
• Able to work under pressure in a busy environment
• Decisive - able to make quick decisions with limited information
• Able to prioritise and make good use of time Customer focus
• Professional credibility
• Influencing and negotiation skills and experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Coordinating team
• Able to deal with queries and complaints Being able to adapt to change in work or workload.

Other
Essential

• Ability to work across sites- must have own car

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: SWFT Clinical Services Ltd
Address: George Eliot Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy, College Street, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ, United Kingdom
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Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Operations Administrator Clinical Health Division, Bethany Taylor, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com

Details
Date posted: 25 August 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £53,072.50 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 203-SWFTCS279-A
Job locations: George Eliot Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy, College Street, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ, United Kingdom