Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – ICU: Sponsorship Available

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and forward-thinking Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to work with the Intensive Care Unit and clinical pharmacy team.

The postholder will be providing expert pharmaceutical care to critical care patients and will need good communication, time management and organisation skills.

As well as clinical skills, the postholder will also contribute to training and mentoring trainee pharmacists and pharmacy students, and lead and contribute to audit. Experience in managing individuals is an advantage.

Part-time / flexible working / hybrid working may be considered for the right candidate.

Main duties of the job

Lead and deliver the clinical pharmacy service to the Intensive Care Unit, by providing a highly specialised level of pharmaceutical care. This will include attending ward rounds, carrying out comprehensive medication review using a complex series of data, ensuring that prescriptions are appropriate and safe, arranging supply and using your independent prescribing qualification (where applicable) to optimise patient care.

Contribute to the quality training experience and support for trainee pharmacists, pharmacy students and trainees in the multidisciplinary team.

Work with medical, nursing and the site management team to facilitate patient discharges in order to maximise patient flow.

Take the lead in developing and reviewing local guidelines and policies for ICU.

Person Specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

Essential

  • Master’s degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration training resulting in registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy qualification or proven level of equivalent experience

Desirable

  • Independent Prescribing qualification
  • MSc in Clinical or Technical Pharmacy
  • Member of the Royal College of Pharmacy

Experience

Essential

  • Previous hospital Pharmacy experience as a Clinical Pharmacist (minimum of four years post qualification including a minimum of 12 months post qualification experience in relevant specialist area)
  • Previous experience should be able to demonstrate that the post-holder is able to demonstrate highly specialist expertise in Intensive Care
  • Experience of multidisciplinary team working
  • Previous experience of supervising/mentoring junior colleagues
  • Demonstrates commitment to Continuing Professional Development

Desirable

  • Experience of implementing and/or reviewing policies, guidelines, PGDs or equivalent

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential

  • Able to communicate and present highly complex information on the action and use of medicines at all levels within and without the department
  • Able to provide expert advice on the use of medicines to treat patients within a specialist area
  • Able to undertake prescription review of complex medication regimes
  • Has the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines whilst paying attention to detail

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 13 September 2026

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