Senior Pharmacist – Acute & Emergency Medicine: Sponsorship Available

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Job summary

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.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Substantial post-registration experience in an acute hospital setting
  • Experience working in the Acute & Emergency medicine specialty
  • Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of working at pharmacy directorate level, including responsibility for financial reporting, developing and maintaining operational procedures, and supporting governance processes.
  • Experience of supervising and coordinating a pharmacy team’s day-to-day activities to ensure effective delivery of service functions.
  • Experience working as an independent prescriber

Desirable

  • Evidence of leading quality improvement projects with successful outcome
  • Evidence of publication in peer reviewed journals or at a national/ regional conference
  • Evidence of participation in an outside group within pharmacy e.g. UKCPA

Qualification

Essential

  • Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent qualification
  • Independent prescribing qualification

Desirable

  • Leadership qualification or equivalent
  • Health assessment or Advanced Clinical Practice qualification

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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