Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Critical care

Job overview

You will provide clinical expertise to your respective unit, supporting some of the most complex and high-acuity critically ill patients in the region, while offering clear direction, organisation, and strategic oversight to the wider team.

The RLH site hosts a wide range of highly specialised surgical services, while AUH is a designated Major Trauma Centre for the region, together offering exposure to clinical scenarios and units rarely seen elsewhere.

You will work with a dedicated group of pharmacists and technical staff on your site, ensuring the delivery of a consistent, high-quality, evidence-based pharmacy service, while working collaboratively across both sites.

Working closely with intensivists, anaesthetists, and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to safe, innovative, and forward-thinking medicines optimisation for critically ill patients.

These roles require substantial hospital pharmacy experience, with essential experience in Critical Care. You will bring advanced clinical knowledge, strong team work ability, and a commitment to driving excellence.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver specialist pharmaceutical input during consultant-led ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Ensure safe, effective medicines optimisation for critically ill patients, including advanced clinical reviews and prescribing.
• Work as part of the Critical Care pharmacy team to ensure a responsive, high-quality service.
• Support, develop, and mentor pharmacists and MMTs within the specialty.
• Provide pharmacy input into both elective and emergency critical care admissions.
• Contribute to medicines-related risk reduction, incident investigation, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintain and support adherence to critical care guidelines, protocols, and best practice standards.
• Monitor medicines expenditure and contribute to financial efficiency plans.
• Deliver specialist training for pharmacy, medical, nursing, and MDT colleagues.
• Support the development of trainees within the pharmacy workforce.
• Contribute to research, audit, and evidence generation within critical care pharmacy practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To deliver as part of a team, the provision of a comprehensive, safe and cost effective pharmaceutical service to the Trust and its patients.

• Contribute and assist in the development of the Critical Care Pharmacy Service to achieve a high standard of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Responsible for the provision of highly specialist pharmaceutical service to the Critical Care areas
• Advise on strategies to ensure cost-effective use of resources
• Provide pharmaceutical expertise to any multidisciplinary working groups considering protocols, policies and guidelines in the specialist area.
• Produces protocols, policies and guidelines on designated pharmaceutical practice relating to the Critical Care Service.
• Deals with high level pharmaceutical queries and provides advice to medical and nursing staff from the Critical care areas including senior medical staff.
• Provides regular reports for the Directorate on drug expenditure including exception reporting and other agreed performance indicators relating to critical care.
• Undertake audit annually and risk manage selected areas of practice to promote continuous quality improvement
• Attend and contribute to directorate meetings
• Assist in evaluating and appraising evidence for new medicines to be used in a critical care setting for the medicines management group, looking at clinical and financial implications for the hospital trust.
• Responsible for developing and enforcing guidelines for the use of unlicensed medicines used within critical care
• Attend regional critical care meetings to decide on regional policies and keep up to date on latest developments
• Responsible for calculation of nutritional, fluid and electrolyte requirements and appropriate, safe and stable formulation of parenteral nutrition regimens, to be compounded aseptically, for intravenous administration to inpatients and outpatients of the trust when required to do so.
• Supervise rotational grade pharmacist during the critical care rotation assessing abilities as a clinical pharmacist. Input into time management, organising ward rounds, visits to observe medical procedures, specialist teaching.

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.