Pharmacist Advanced Critical Care and Surgical Support in Stevenage

Pharmacist Advanced Critical Care and Surgical Support

A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

We are recruiting for a Pharmacist with knowledge in Critical Care and who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist to work with the Critical Care Directorate and clinical pharmacy team. You will be responsible for providing leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service .

The post holder will attend ward rounds on Critical Care and use their independent prescribing qualification (where applicable) to optimise patient care. There is true multidisciplinary interaction in this role.

The successful candidate will support surgical specialties as and when needed as well, This is a great opportunity to enhance leadership skills and provide operational support to the Team Lead.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

To lead, deliver and continue to develop a high quality pharmacy service to Critical Care & Theatres, and surgical wards ensuring medicines optimisation and compliance with medicines regulation.

Play an integral role in the multidisciplinary team that delivers a high quality clinical service to patients in critical care. This will include regular attendance of consultant-led ward rounds, independently prescribing to optimise individual patients’ medicines and leading a team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to deliver an effective pharmacy service.

Provide support to the Pharmacist Manager in delivering an effective, efficient, robust and sustainable clinical pharmacy service to the Trust’s planned division.

Engage with stakeholders in the local ICS to ensure all possible opportunities to improve patient care are identified and delivered. This will include integration with neighbouring Trusts and community healthcare providers.

To be an Independent Prescribing Pharmacist within East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust working in accordance with the Trusts Non- medical prescribing policy as approved by therapeutics Policy Committee (TPC).

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Jul 2026