Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: The contracted hours for the post is 37.5hours per week, the successful applicant will contribute to weekends, bank holidays, a late night rota slot once a week and join the on call rota
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call & extended services cover as required by departmental rotas)
- Job ref
- 225-DIV3JD-8206615
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Cross Pharmacy
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist
Band 7
Job overview
Join our dynamic Acute & Emergency Medicine pharmacy team and make a real impact at the front door of care. As a Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist, you’ll work across the Emergency Department, Acute Medical Unit, Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), Frailty in‑reach and Urgent Treatment Centres—supporting safe, effective and timely treatment for acutely unwell patients.
You’ll provide high‑quality clinical pharmacy input, optimise therapies, support admission avoidance (particularly in frailty), and help facilitate safe discharge directly from ED. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you’ll play a key role in improving patient flow and medicines safety in a fast‑paced environment.
This is an excellent development role with structured support from senior pharmacists and our Principal Pharmacist ACP. You’ll have opportunities to grow your skills in:
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Advanced clinical practice
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Independent prescribing
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Leadership and service improvement
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Education, training and supervision
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Research, audit and quality improvement
If you’re enthusiastic, motivated and ready to develop specialist expertise in emergency care, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Deliver safe, effective clinical pharmacy services across ED, AMU, SDEC, Frailty in‑reach and UTC.
Provide medicines optimisation during ward rounds and MDT discussions to support timely clinical decisions.
Use (or work towards) independent prescribing to optimise therapies and support admission avoidance.
Contribute to quality improvement, audit and service development within Acute & Emergency Medicine.
Support day‑to‑day clinical pharmacy activity, including medicines reconciliation, review and discharge planning.
Provide clear, patient‑focused medicines advice to support safe discharge and virtual ward pathways.
Work with senior pharmacists to ensure safe prescribing, guideline adherence and effective medicines governance.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to wards and departments providing a medicines management service directly to patients with support and training from experienced staff.
To participate in the pharmacy dispensary, late night and oncall rotas as necessary.
To provide advice to medical and nursing staff on drug usage, and encourage compliance with the hospital/health economy formulary to ensure safe, rational , and economic prescribing.
To provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines in designated ward areas.
To integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend ward rounds making proactive interventions in individual patient’s therapy by providing information on drug related issues and acting as a Pharmacy contact.
To provide advice to patients on the correct use of medication and ensure that directions associated with medications are understood, including the main side-effects of the medications.
To identify drug related admissions and resolve medicines related problems associated with individual patients between primary and secondary care.
To support senior pharmacists contributing/providing pharmaceutical advice to the multidisciplinary audit of treatment guidelines.
To support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level.
To maintain an up to date knowledge of developments in medical and pharmaceutical practice, as part of their own continuing professional development.
The full job description and person specification are included with this advert.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Current registration as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Relevant postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification, or evidence of working towards one
- Independent prescribing qualification, or willingness and eligibility to undertake it within an agreed timeframe
Desirable criteria
- Relevant advanced clinical assessment qualification
- Experience of implementing and delivering the objectives of cost/service improvement programmes.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical pharmacy experience across medical, surgical, urgent or emergency care specialties relevant to the post
- Experience of undertaking medicines reconciliation, medicines optimisation and discharge planning
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience of working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to manage time effectively and prioritise a variable and unpredictable clinical workload
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in service improvement projects
- Direct clinical pharmacy experience within the Emergency Department, Acute Medical Unit, Same Day Emergency Care or acute frailty services
- Experience of practising as an independent prescriber
- Experience of contributing to the development or implementation of clinical guidelines, pathways, protocols or standard operating procedures
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shane Kailla
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist - Acute & Emergency Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01902 695757
- Additional information
Alternative contact details:
Nikita Kallu Senior Pharmacist: Acute & Emergency Medicine [email protected]
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