Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Acute & Emergency Medicine
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Job overview
Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge within Acute and Emergency Medicine?
We’re looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist to join our Acute &Emergency Medicine team at the Royal Stoke site. You’ll help deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to high-acuity and complex patients across our Acute Medical Unit, AMRA, AEC, SSU and to the Emergency Department.
You’ll work closely with pharmacy colleagues and multidisciplinary team members, with opportunities for education, development, research and networking. You will also train and support the development of junior pharmacists within the Acute Medicine rotation.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has experience of delivering evidence-based, cost effective care
- Is able to support team development
- Has a passion for acute and emergency medicine, and thrives in a fast-paced clinical environment
Main duties of the job
- Main duties of the job
- Deliver a high quality, patient focused clinical pharmacy service to Acute/Emergency Medicine
- Prioritise and review high-risk patients (e.g. those with epilepsy, diabetes, Parkinson’s disease), ensuring their medicines are prescribed and administered within a timely manner
- Utilise your independent prescribing skills daily, working within your scope of practice
- Provide prescribing support for complex medicines e.g. aminophylline, vancomycin
- Support patient flow with mechanisms for obtaining discharge medicines both in and out of hours
- Review adverse incidents and take appropriate action to reduce future risk
- Review and develop guidelines and PGDs.
- Line manage and train and develop junior pharmacists and trainee pharmacists
- Work with the Advanced Lead Pharmacist for Acute and Emergency Medicine on the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and Acute Medicine.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details regarding this role
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This advert is for Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Acute & Emergency Medicine with University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust in Stoke On Trent, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Secondment: 12 months. The application deadline is 04 Jun 2026.
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