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Job overview

We are seeking an experienced, motivated and dynamic clinical pharmacist with excellent communication skills to lead our Emergency Medicine Team. 

The Pharmacy Team are proud winners of the Trust's Clinical Team of the Year Award 2024, and our overwhelmingly positive staff survey results speak for themselves. We are looking for a leader who demonstrates the Trust values and will continue to develop a culture of inclusivity and continuous learning which makes the pharmacy directorate at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust one of the best places to work.

We recognise the variety of opportunities available to pharmacy professionals and if you choose to join our team, we want you to feel valued and supported. We will work with you to fulfil your full potential whether that be through further education and training, new experiences or coaching and mentoring. Our friendly Pharmacy Education and Training Team are in place to support your advanced practice development.

Main duties of the job

The post will provide the following services to the Emergency Medicine Directorate (not exhaustive):

Lead and develop a team of senior pharmacists, junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians, and medicines management assistants providing clinical pharmacy services to our Acute Medical Unit, Emergency Department and Urgent Treatment Centre.

To be an independent prescriber and utilise this in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Provide a clinical pharmacy service to the Acute Medical Unit and  the Emergency Department. 

To line manage senior pharmacists, primarily working in the Emergency Medicine Specialty.

Lead on medicines governance and service development within our Emergency Medicine Directorate. 

The post holder will be joining and working in a large and progressive pharmacy department, which delivers near patient ward pharmacy services, has automated dispensing, electronic medicines management and has implemented electronic prescribing across the majority of the organisation.  The pharmacy department has close links with the  Schools of Pharmacy at Wolverhampton University, University of Birmingham and Aston University with members of staff holding joint appointments, and is actively involved in teaching undergraduate students and learning beyond registration.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.