Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

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
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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

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:

Advanced clinical practice

Independent prescribing

Leadership and service improvement

Education, training and supervision

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.

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.

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.

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…