We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers. Job overview We are looking for a dynamic clinical pharmacist, with extensive NHS post-registration experience, to work as an independent prescriber within a medical speciality at Northern General Hospital. As an Embedded Prescribing Pharmacist (EPP) you will become fully integrated into the ward team, prescribing both in-patient and discharge medication as well as, following training, writing discharge letters, requesting results, and making referrals, within your specialist area. You will be encouraged to develop ways of practice that suit the intricacies of your directorate and will help to shape the future of your role. This role is unique in that, as a prescriber, you are additional to the standard ward pharmacy skill mix of clinical pharmacist / medicines management technician, enabling prescribing to be your focus. The role has won the Guts UK Pharmacist Recognition Award 2025 and previously won a Good Practice Initiative award at the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists' Congress. You will help to promote the expansion of the role into other specialities and development of other related services, such as the Weekend Discharge Pharmacist, supporting the registrar led Medical Discharge Team (limited commitment, as below) This is a rare and exciting opportunity to become part of an team that takes independent pharmacist prescribing to the forefront of clinical practice. Advert Provide an independent pharmacist prescribing service to patients within Medicine, ensuring that medicines are optimised for safety, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency. Attend ward rounds, board rounds and huddles to lead on medicines related activities. Write discharge letters and prescribe accompanying medication to optimise flow. Work collaboratively with other medical, pharmacy, MDT staff and external agencies to facilitate patient discharge. Assist the Principal pharmacist, EPP and Discharge, in delivering, developing, and evaluating the service. Contributing to pharmacy departmental or clinical services, including evenings and weekends.(1 day in 5 weekends) Note: The role may suit part-time workers, particularly those with experience in Gastroenterology and Respiratory. The specialty assigned to may depend on the expertise of the optimum candidate(s). Please note this advertisement can be appointed as either a full time or part time opportunity. Working for our organisation You will be working for an organisation which values and respects its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it’s staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post. When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here. Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. W hen you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal. When selecting to apply via NHS Jobs, you will be redirected to our preferred recruitment system called Trac. You will be asked to create and submit your application via the Trac recruitment system. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account. If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there. The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation. Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position. 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