Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, and dynamic Clinical Pharmacist with a passion for Critical Care?
We have an exciting opportunity for one of two Advanced Specialist Pharmacists to provide expert clinical pharmacy input to our Critical Care Services.

This role is perfect if you are:

• Looking to develop your clinical skills within a well-respected, proactive multidisciplinary team
• Eager to manage and deliver a specialist clinical pharmacy service to Critical Care
• Interested in working towards credentialing for a consultant post while using your expertise as a non-medical prescriber across the Critical Care service line

If you’re looking for a position where you will be supported, challenged, and valued – with opportunities to contribute to research, service development, and patient outcomes at the highest level – we would love to hear from you.

Candidates who meet the qualifications for this post but may not yet demonstrate the full proven knowledge or demonstrable experience required at Band 8a will still be considered for this role as a Band 7 to Band 8a progression opportunity. The successful candidate will receive the necessary support to achieve the required progression milestones and demonstrate the expected level of practice before progressing to an advanced specialist Band 8a role.

Main duties of the job

·       This post holder will be responsible for the provision of a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within the Critical Care Pharmacy Team.

·       Undertake teaching and clinical supervision of pharmacy staff and other healthcare employees.

·       Provide specialist clinical pharmacy services and advice to the clinical specialities, demonstrating a high level of clinical effectiveness.

·       Develop a clinical interest within a chosen area of clinical practice to support clinical service to specific group of patients within the service line

·       Work closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Critical Care & Surgery and Associate Chief Pharmacist for Clinical Services on the strategic development of clinical pharmacy services and establish clearly defined roles for pharmacist non-medical prescribers within critical care areas.

·       Develop and manage the delivery of pharmacy services to ensure efficient use of resources and systems including monitoring drug expenditure, delivery of financial savings within the critical care areas primarily.

·       Develop and build increased pharmacist presence into outpatients clinical areas as part of the rehab team.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP) NHS is the largest hospital on the Southwest Peninsula providing comprehensive secondary & tertiary care to a population of around 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services including cardiothoracic surgery, kidney transplantation, neurosurgery, & the regional trauma Centre. Our specialist cancer treatments include bone marrow transplant, sarcoma surgery and hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancer surgery (not exhaustive). We work closely with our community partners delivering health & social care.

Our purpose-built 28-bed combined general and neuro intensive care unit admits over 1,600 patients each year. As an integral member of our multidisciplinary team, our Critical Care Pharmacists regularly use their non-medical prescribing (NMP) skills to make a real difference in patient care.

Over half of our ICU admissions are non-surgical, covering a broad range of specialities – from acute medicine, neurology, hepatology, and endocrinology to cardiology, haematology, renal, and respiratory medicine. Our ICNARC standardised mortality ratio is consistently below 1, and our last CQC inspection rated us ‘Good’.

We’re not just about clinical excellence – we’re innovators. As active members of the South West Critical Care Network Pharmacy Group, we lead research and quality improvement projects, including our recent work on post-ICU discharge follow-up, showcased at the EAHP Conference in Copenhagen (March 2025).