Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner: Acute Care Specialist

2 months ago


Worcester, Worcestershire, United Kingdom Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled pharmacist to join our team as an Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner in Acute Care. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, providing high-quality patient care and contributing to the development of our clinical pharmacy services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver advanced clinical pharmacy services to patients in the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Directorate, including assessing patients, identifying medicine-related causes for attendance and admission, and developing treatment plans to optimize care.
  • Function as an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complying with all requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independent prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.
  • Make critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate these to patients and other staff members accordingly.
  • Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards within the Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department.
  • Use specialized knowledge of medicines to advise consultants, medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for Acute Medical patients.
  • Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department; recommend, substantiate, and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
  • Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and the Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines-related national and local guidelines.
  • Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.
  • Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute medicine comply with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research on pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.
  • Contribute to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments drug expenditure within agreed budgets.
About Us

We are Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, a large acute and specialized hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialized services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organization as a flex-positive employer.



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