Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
Join a dynamic Acute & Emergency Medicine pharmacy team, working as a Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist across various urgent care settings like ED, AMU, SDEC, Frailty in-reach, and UTC. You will provide high-quality clinical pharmacy input, optimise therapies, and support admission avoidance and safe discharge for acutely unwell patients. This role offers excellent development opportunities in advanced clinical practice, independent prescribing, leadership, and service improvement, with structured support from senior pharmacists.
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Relevant advanced clinical assessment qualification
- Experience of implementing and delivering the objectives of cost/service improvement programmes.
- 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
- 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
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 4d ago · Closes in 14d
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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
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,
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