Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Support day‑to‑day clinical pharmacy activity, including medicines reconciliation, review and discharge planning.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 patient’s 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 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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.