Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join our friendly department at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. You will receive excellent support and training from our senior pharmacists, laying a solid foundation for your future career. We believe in investing in our junior pharmacists and are passionate about developing our pharmacists into the clinical leaders and consultant pharmacists of the future. We have a principal pharmacist dedicated to education and training to ensure our staff receive outstanding training and development.
Rotations
You will have the opportunity to rotate through the following wards and departments, depending on your pay band:
* Band 6 – Paediatrics, Acute Medicine, Total Parenteral Nutrition (pharmacy aseptics), General Surgery, Cardiac Services, Respiratory Medicine, Stroke, Elderly care, Medicines Information.
* Band 7 – Trauma and Orthopaedics, Diabetes, General Medicine, Critical Care, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology/Surgery, Renal, Cytotoxics & Oncology (pharmacy aseptics).
Candidates with suitable hospital experience would be recruited at band 7. Applications welcome from community pharmacists, newly qualified pharmacists and pharmacists already working in a hospital setting.
Responsibilities
* Provide professional pharmaceutical services, including reviewing prescriptions, dispensing, aseptic preparation, and clinical pharmacy services in all areas of the department on a rotational basis.
* Supervise/provide professional support to trainee pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.
* Managed, where appropriate by the Senior Pharmacist in each area of activity.
* Undertakes postgraduate clinical training such as the diploma in clinical pharmacy and/or independent prescribing.
* Provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to wards and departments providing medicines management service directly to patients with support and training from experienced staff.
* 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.
* Provide professional pharmacist cover in all areas including inpatient and outpatient dispensaries, aseptic dispensing services, medicines information, and clinical pharmacy services according to specified rota.
* Provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines in designated ward areas.
* 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.
* 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.
* Identify drug related admissions and where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the MHRA.
* Resolve medicines related problems between primary and secondary care.
* Support senior pharmacists contributing/providing pharmaceutical advice to the multidisciplinary audit of treatment guidelines and at directorate level.
* Maintain up to date knowledge of developments in medical and pharmaceutical practice as part of continuing professional development.
* The full job description and person specification are included with this advert.
About the Trust
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services. We are proud of the diversity of our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve health care problems of tomorrow. We value diversity of thinking and lived experience in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care.
We are delighted to have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved awards including The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is committed to flexible working arrangements and will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Application and Requirements
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 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 professional pharmacist cover in all areas including inpatient and outpatient dispensaries, aseptic dispensing services, medicines information, and clinical pharmacy services according to specified rota. 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 where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the MHRA. Resolve medicines related problems between primary and secondary care. To support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level. To maintain up to date knowledge of developments in medical and pharmaceutical practice, as part of continuing professional development. The full job description and person specification are included with this advert.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Sep 2025
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