Job overview

As a Senior Clinical Pharmacist in Acute & Emergency Medicine, you’ll be at the heart of emergency care—working across the Emergency Department, Acute Medical Unit, Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), Frailty in‑reach, and Urgent Treatment Centres.

You’ll lead, innovate, and shape the future of medicines optimisation in emergency care, delivering expert clinical pharmacy services that directly impact patient outcomes at their most critical moments. This role blends advanced practice, independent prescribing, multidisciplinary teamwork, service development, and leadership—making it ideal for pharmacists ready to elevate their practice.

You’ll be supported by fellow senior pharmacists and a Principal Pharmacist ACP, with development opportunities in:

• Advanced clinical practice

• Leadership

• Education

• Research & quality improvement

We’re committed to improving patient outcomes through innovative pathways, admission avoidance, prescribing optimisation and safe, effective medicines management.

If you’re driven, forward‑thinking and ready for a role with real influence, we’d love to receive your application.

Main duties of the job

Lead and develop pharmaceutical services across all Emergency Services Group areas.

Provide expert clinical pharmacy input during ward rounds, MDT meetings, and governance forums.

Independently prescribe to optimise care for acutely unwell patients.

Drive quality improvement initiatives and KPI reporting for acute & emergency medicine pharmacy services.

Deliver and develop specialist clinical pharmacy services for Acute & Emergency Medicine

Coordinate day‑to‑day clinical pharmacy activity across emergency care areas.

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 provides 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.

The University of Birmingham School of Pharmacy has a collegial culture, and resides within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences facilitating interdisciplinary working with researchers and practitioners in Medicine, Dentistry, Biomedical Science, Nursing, and Physiotherapy. Our educational environment encourages collaboration with clinical colleagues, enabling inter-professional education and innovative teaching. You will be working with highly experienced academics.