Advanced Pharmacist – Acute Care | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Tachwedd 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Kings Lynn, PE30 4ET |
| Cwmni: | Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7544649/426-057-25TAM |
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You will be Advanced Pharmacist for the Acute Care wards and will support development the clinical pharmacy service to wards within acute care, including the Emergency Department, Medical and Surgical Admissions Units, Short Stay Unit and the Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit in line with local and national standards and policies, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines and staff resources.
You will provide a highly specialised level of pharmaceutical care to patients and will support other healthcare staff in meeting risk management, financial management and clinical governance responsibilities around the use of medicines.
You will provide highly specialised advice for pharmacists and healthcare professionals, including participation in multidisciplinary and governance meetings.
You will deliver departmental training and will provide clinical supervision & mentoring for junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians.
You will contribute to the quality training experience and support for trainee pharmacists, pharmacy students and trainees in the multi-disciplinary team.
The post-holder will carry out clinical pharmacy audit and practice research supported by the Lead pharmacist – medicine.
Lead and coordinate the clinical pharmacy service in Acute Care areas, by providing a highly specialised level of pharmaceutical care. This will include visiting wards, speaking to individual patients to discuss all aspects of their medicines, ensuring that prescriptions are appropriate and safe, arranging supply, and when necessary, liaising with other healthcare professionals with regard to all aspects of that patients prescription and pharmaceutical care.
Practise as a highly specialised clinical pharmacist within local and national policies and standards to deliver medicines optimisation to individual patient's out a daily ward round to clinically review individual patients’ treatment and to determine the most appropriate choice of medication in response to complex series of data relating to their condition, their response to treatment and reduction of avoidable adverse events.
Work with medical, nursing and the site management team to facilitate patient discharges in order to maximise patient flow.
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification
This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025