Pharmacist, Healthcare

3.75hrs Hours per week (could be worked as 7.5hr day once a fortnight)

Competitive hourly rate

Permanent

Make your work count! Could you be our next Pharmacist?

If you want to feel personal fulfilment from a career with real meaning, consider Rowcroft Hospice.

We offer purposeful work in a uniquely progressive environment.

What youll bring

To be successful in this role you will need:

• To be a registered Pharmacist
• Experience in community or secondary care pharmacy that involves end of life prescribing

You will be driven by our cause and will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment as part of a close team to deliver on our strategy takes real teamwork, energy and passion, no two days are ever the same!

What is in it for you?

You will be supported and encouraged to innovate and to try new things. Our scope of work and our confident organisational vision creates opportunities for progress and development. And we work together with passion and pride in an environment where people are caring, considerate, inclusive and welcoming. It can be tough. We dont shy away from that. But youll see clearly see the importance and impact of your work and feel recognised and part of something remarkable.

As a part of our team you will be expected and supported to take part in the Leadership and Management training programme offered by Rowcroft.

Working at Rowcroft Hospice

Rowcroft Hospice is an independent charity that provides comfort, support and specialist care to over 2,000 patients and their loved ones across South Devon each year.

Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon.

For more Information

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for this role.

For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Vicky Bartlett
, Director of Patient Care: on email Victoria.

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Closing date: 11:59 pm Sunday 15 February 2026

Interview date:
To be Confirmed

Hours
: 3.75 hours a week (can be also workedas 7.5 hours a fortnight)

Location: Rowcroft Hospice

Reporting to
:
Director of Patient Care

Job purpose
:
Our Vision is to make every day the best day possible for patients, and those closest to them, living with life-limiting illnesses in South Devon. As a pharmacist you will deliver this by ensuring safe and effective prescribing processes.

Our Values:

Honesty & Integrity Generosity of Spirit Respect Team Player

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Reviewand ensure thorough and accurate oversight in terms of governance of patient
  
  PMARS and patient pod boxes on the IPU.
• Record contemporaneous records on our electronic medical records system and paper records. In addition, to access and record on our other electronic systems,e.g. Vantage, our incident reporting system. This is not an exhaustive list ofour inhouse systems, but keeping up to date through the HUB will assist in assessing and identifying these.
• Providea robust governance approach to support safe prescribing and administrations of medications on the IPU.
• Workas part of the Rowcroft Hospice MDT.
• Contribute to the further development of the Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system within the IPU as part of our team.
• Attend Rowcroft Pharmacy Committee meetings every two months, which typically last 1to 1.5 hours and require preparation time. Recurring topics include reviewing prescribing data from the IPU and Community services, as well as Non-Medical Prescriber activity. To attend at least three a year.
• Support staff development as requested on the IPU and within contracted hours.
• Participate in yearly audits with the Rowcroft CDAO.
• Adhereto Rowcroft policies and procedures, maintain mandatory training and have anannual appraisal with your line manager.
• Take reasonable care for your own safety and the safety of others and adhere to all Health & Safety requirements, processes and procedures.
• Promotea culture of continuous learning, development, and wellbeing by identifying your own learning and development needs, ensuring your mandatory and essential training is up to date, and helping to create an environment that continually questions practice and promotes learning.
• Identify your own learning and development needs, undertake continuous professional development, actively engage in clinical supervision to maintain objective and innovative practice,and play an active role in team meetings.

This list can never be exhaustive but covers mostof the work youll be doing - always with talent, initiative and a commitment to a quality service.

Registration
Youare required to hold a valid professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council and you will be required to provide proof of this and its renewal. You are also required toinform Rowcroft hospice of any restrictions to your practice or investigations.

Infection Prevention

All Rowcroft Hospice employees in both clinical and non-clinical roles are required to adhere to…