Emergency Department Specialist Pharmacist: Lead & Mentor

National Health Service; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts Pharmacy department invites applications for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Emergency and Acute Care to join the Emergency Department team. You will provide expert clinical pharmacy input, support medicines optimisation, and mentor junior staff within a dynamic MDT.

The role emphasizes advanced prescribing, leading the ED pharmacy service, and working across 7-day shifts from Queens Medical Centre. Band 8a with a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or working towards this or equivalent experience
• GPhC registration and UK professional eligibility
• Independent prescribing qualification
• Broad knowledge base of clinical areas
• Experience in day to day supervision and assisting in training of trainee pharmacists and/or technicians
• Evidence of research or project work at local level

Responsibilities

• To lead and develop the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department alongside the other Specialist Clinical Pharmacists
• To provide clinical input (at specialist level) to the Emergency Department
• To work alongside the medical team and Advanced Clinical Practitioner team in prescribing for people being cared for in the Emergency Department
• Provide highly complex advice and guidance requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of options on all issues relating to prescribing and therapeutics in the relevant specialty
• Maintain a working knowledge relating to prescribing and therapeutics for all services in the Medicine care group
• To form a key component of the multidisciplinary team in the Emergency Department
• Providing an advanced level of clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department
• Support the Directorate Lead Pharmacist for Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) to deliver the best possible clinical pharmacy service
• To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians in the EAC Directorate
• Participate in back-up senior on-call rota supporting junior pharmacists
• Involvement in education and training of a variety of healthcare professionals including diploma & pre-registration pharmacists, undergraduates and trainee advanced nurse practitioners
• The pharmacy department operates a 7 day shifted working model which will include weekends and Bank Holidays
• The post will be based at the Queens Medical Centre.

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts Pharmacy department invites applications for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Emergency and Acute Care to join the Emergency Department team. You will provide expert clinical pharmacy input, support medicines optimisation, and mentor junior staff within a dynamic MDT.

The role emphasizes advanced prescribing, leading the ED pharmacy service, and working across 7-day shifts from Queens Medical Centre. Band 8a with a competitive salary.