Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

Are you a qualified pharmacist looking to significantly develop your skills in Acute & Emergency Medicine?

We are building a strong team of pharmacists within our Emergency Services Directorate at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and would love to hear from you.

In this role, you'll provide specialist pharmaceutical expertise to acutely unwell patients on the Acute Medical Unit. As your skills and experience grow, with the support of a senior pharmacist, you'll also extend this provision to patients within the Emergency Department.

You'll benefit from comprehensive support for your professional development. A team of senior pharmacists, under the guidance of a Principal Pharmacist ACP, will help you achieve your goals across key areas including:

• Clinical practice
• Leadership
• Education
• Research

This is a newly established role within a progressive team. We are focused on enhancing patient care at the front door of the hospital by providing high-quality pharmaceutical care, with a shared goal of improving health outcomes for our population.

If you're ready to take on a key role in a developing service and advance your expertise, we encourage you to apply.

To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties on the Acute & Emergency Medicine areas, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.

Supervise/provide professional support to junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.

Managed by senior pharmacist responsible for acute & emergency medicine with oversight from the principal pharmacist for the area.

Undertakes postgraduate clinical training where relevant to the post.

To act as an independent prescriber once registered with the GPhC in line with local policy and entered in the trust NMP register.

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.

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 patients 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 where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

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.

• Registration with GPhC as a pharmacist
• Ability to demonstrate clinical experience and competence in acute & emergency medicine or a broad range of medical and surgical specialities relevant to post
• Able to communicate well with a wide range of staff from a range of disciplines from both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to manage own time effectively and prioritise appropriately.
• Ability to work both on own initiative and to co-operate within a team to achieve desired outcomes
• Experience in supervising, training and assessing staff
• Completed the pharmacy clinical diploma or equivalent (score 2 if commenced but not completed)
• Independent prescriber or working towards it (score 2 if commenced but not…