Specialist Pharmacist
Employer: Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Pharmacy Department, Treliske hospital, Truro, TR13LQ
Posted: 08 December 2025
Band: 6 | Salary: depending on experience | Contract: Permanent | Working pattern: Full time
Job Summary
This post supports the Lead Pharmacist for Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Theatres in the provision of a core clinical pharmacy service to the critical care unit (≈50 % of workload), theatres and surgical wards (≈50 %). The pharmacist works alongside multidisciplinary team members, including consultants, junior doctors, advanced critical care practitioners, specialist nurses, specialist pharmacists, junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, to deliver a robust clinical service.
Main Duties
* Provide a core clinical pharmacy service to critical and peri‑operative care inpatients in line with the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards.
* Ensure high‑quality, patient‑centred, cost‑effective pharmaceutical care for patients.
* Work with the critical care team to achieve Department of Health Adult Critical Care D05 commissioning services and GPICS standards for pharmacy.
* Actively provide medicines information and medication counselling to healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
* Collaborate with multiprofessional teams across critical care, anaesthesia and surgical directorates to produce and review medication guidelines that promote rational, economical and evidence‑based prescribing, with appropriate monitoring practice.
* Participate in national audits, research and risk‑management strategies.
* Support lead pharmacists with drug budget management, providing evaluated medicine expenditure information to managers and clinicians, advising on expenditure control measures and participating in cost‑savings initiatives.
Qualifications
Essential
* Master’s degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
* Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Post‑graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent) or working towards it.
Desirable
* Registered Independent Prescriber (or willingness to train).
* Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* Member of UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA).
* Previous attendance on the ‘UKCPA Starting out in critical care’ course (or equivalent).
Experience
Essential
* Post‑registration experience covering a range of specialties as a clinical pharmacist.
* Clinical supervision of junior staff.
* Evidence demonstrating competencies that meet the RPS Post Registration Foundation Pharmacist Curriculum.
Desirable
* Experience providing a clinical pharmacy service in a hospital environment.
* Experience deputising for a more senior clinical pharmacist.
* RPS Core Advanced Curriculum or equivalent.
* Clinical research experience or willingness to undertake.
* Experience training staff using coaching or teaching methods.
* Knowledge of risk‑management principles.
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