Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Highly Specialist Pharmacist Older Persons Medicine

The closing date is 26 February 2026

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Job summary

Band 8a: £33,414 - £37,609

Part time hours: 22.5 per week

Permanent contract

Reports to: Pharmacist Team Lead for Medicine and OPM

Main duties of the job

Leads the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to the Older Persons Medicine (OPM) and general medicine care group in accordance with the pharmacy care group:

Provides pharmaceutical advice and develops clinical pharmacy services to OPM in order to optimise patient benefit from treatment with medicines and ensure the safe, efficacious and cost-effective use of medicines.
Undertakes risk management and ensures compliance with medicines legislation.
Be the named pharmacist for the OPM service
To be responsible for financial savings within OPM medicine
To deliver an education and training programme relevant to role

Key Dimensions

Capital and Revenue Budgets Contributory impact on the medicines budgets for OPM
Staff Numbers Supervises and manages rotational pharmacists and tutor trainee pharmacists

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Date posted

13 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£33,414 to £37,609 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

REF1941G

Job locations

Queen Alexandra Hosp, Southwick Hill Road

Cosham

Portsmouth

PO6 3LY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Providing clinical pharmacy expertise in use of medicines for patients within the OPM care group during an inpatient hospital stay or on an outpatient, Homecare or day case basis.

Participating in multidisciplinary meetings as required for the service.

Lead on addressing overprescribing and polypharmacy within the Trust.

Provide support to the palliative care and Parkinsons Disease teams.

To undertake the role of pharmacy independent prescriber, with the appropriate qualifications where appropriate and according to the needs of the service.

Identifying potential and clinical development within OPM and planning for implementation to ensure services continue to meet requirements and income is sufficient to fund development.

Interpreting budgetary information for finance staff at agreed intervals to ensure that significant variances are highlighted together with proposals for appropriate action.

Assisting the Pharmacist Team Leader for Medicine in evaluating the costs and benefits of new drug developments and presenting evaluated information to division and directorate lead clinicians and managers to aid them in deciding if new products or approaches to treatment should be used in the division.

Assisting the clinicians in the preparation of business case applications to the Formulary and Medicines Group and/or Area Prescribing Committee, and where necessary taking cases of need to purchasers to ensure that funding for new products or approaches to treatment is secured in contracts.

Contributing to the production of prescribing guidelines and PGDs/PSDs to ensure that medicines are used safely and in such a way as to maximise benefits to patients within available resources.

Participating governance meetings as the joint lead for clinical governance of medicines management issues, ensuring issues are communicated with the OPM service.

Tutor a trainee pharmacist or postgraduate pharmacist student.

Manage and mentor junior pharmacy staff.

Providing training, teaching and support to underpin CPD and postgraduate qualifications in the Pharmacy department and deliver general and specialist pharmaceutical education to other healthcare professionals.