Advanced Specialist Pharmacist and Emergency Care

Overview

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic clinical pharmacist looking to take the next step in your career to specialise in Urgent and Emergency Care? Would you like to work alongside other advanced specialist pharmacists and a growing UEC pharmacy team? Are you at the stage of your career where you are looking to develop your clinical skills and work within well-respected and proactive multidisciplinary teams, delivering the specialist clinical pharmacy service to Urgent and Emergency Care?

Involving Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine, Minor Injuries and Same Day Emergency Care including pre-hospital care. Do you want to be part of an innovative Department that have had an ambitious 5-year strategy and workforce plan approved by the Trust Board? If so, we would love to hear from you! If you would like further information, or to know the full terms of the Relocation Allowance, please contact  for further details.

Candidates who meet the qualifications for this post but may not yet demonstrate the full knowledge or experience required at Band 8a will still be considered for this role as a Band 7 to Band 8a progression opportunity. The successful candidate will receive the necessary support to achieve the required progression milestones and demonstrate the expected level of practice before progressing to an advanced specialist Band 8a role.

• This post holder will be responsible for the provision of a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within the Urgent and Emergency Care areas (acute medicine and same day emergency care).
• Act as team leader for the ward-based pharmacy team and as a team member for the Urgent and Emergency Care pharmacy team.
• Undertake teaching and clinical supervision of pharmacy staff and other healthcare employees.
• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy services and advice to the clinical specialties, demonstrating a high level of clinical effectiveness.
• Work closely with Lead Pharmacist Urgent and Emergency Care, and Associate Chief Pharmacist for Clinical Services on the strategic development of clinical pharmacy services and establish clearly defined roles for pharmacist non-medical prescribers within the Urgent and Emergency Care areas.
• Develop and manage the delivery of pharmacy services to ensure efficient use of resources and systems including monitoring drug expenditure, delivery of financial savings within the Urgent and Emergency Care areas.
• Develop and build increased pharmacist presence into outpatients clinical areas.

Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.

University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP) NHS is the largest hospital on the Southwest Peninsula providing comprehensive secondary & tertiary care to a population of around 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services including cardiothoracic surgery, kidney transplantation, neurosurgery & the regional trauma Centre. Our specialist cancer treatments include bone marrow transplant, sarcoma surgery and hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancer surgery (not exhaustive).

We work closely with our community partners delivering health & social care.

It’s an exciting time to join the Trust as we prepare to implement a new Electronic Patient Record system, EPIC, scheduled to go live in July 2026.

The Acute and Emergency Medicine areas provide a high-quality patient focused service across Plymouth, and the Southwest region as the tertiary Major Trauma Centre for Devon and Cornwall. The Departments are based both at University Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust where all acute and urgent care for patients takes place, and across community sites within Urgent Treatment Centres and Minor Injury Units.

The Emergency Department in Plymouth sees over 100,000 people every year which is the same as filling up Home Park stadium six times over! We see all people in our department, but are also a specialist hospital for major trauma, cardiology, neurology and neurosurgery, to name but a few.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Natasha Moore, Associate Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services (Interim), University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Email:  Telephone:

For an informal discussion or to arrange a site visit please contact Natasha Moore, Associate Chief Pharmacist – Clinical Services (Interim), University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust  or Antony Mitchell, Lead Pharmacist for Urgent and Emergency Care, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust