Specialist Pharmacist in Truro

Specialist Pharmacist

Employer: Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, Pharmacy Department, Treliske hospital, Truro, TR13LQ

Posted: 08 December 2025

Band: 6 | Salary: depending on experience | Contract: Permanent | Working pattern: Full time

Job Summary

This post supports the Lead Pharmacist for Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Theatres in the provision of a core clinical pharmacy service to the critical care unit (≈50 % of workload), theatres and surgical wards (≈50 %). The pharmacist works alongside multidisciplinary team members, including consultants, junior doctors, advanced critical care practitioners, specialist nurses, specialist pharmacists, junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, to deliver a robust clinical service.

Main Duties

• Provide a core clinical pharmacy service to critical and peri‑operative care inpatients in line with the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards.
• Ensure high‑quality, patient‑centred, cost‑effective pharmaceutical care for patients.
• Work with the critical care team to achieve Department of Health Adult Critical Care D05 commissioning services and GPICS standards for pharmacy.
• Actively provide medicines information and medication counselling to healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
• Collaborate with multiprofessional teams across critical care, anaesthesia and surgical directorates to produce and review medication guidelines that promote rational, economical and evidence‑based prescribing, with appropriate monitoring practice.
• Participate in national audits, research and risk‑management strategies.
• Support lead pharmacists with drug budget management, providing evaluated medicine expenditure information to managers and clinicians, advising on expenditure control measures and participating in cost‑savings initiatives.

Qualifications

Essential

• Master’s degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post‑graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent) or working towards it.

Desirable

• Registered Independent Prescriber (or willingness to train).
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Member of UK Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA).
• Previous attendance on the ‘UKCPA Starting out in critical care’ course (or equivalent).

Experience

Essential

• Post‑registration experience covering a range of specialties as a clinical pharmacist.
• Clinical supervision of junior staff.
• Evidence demonstrating competencies that meet the RPS Post Registration Foundation Pharmacist Curriculum.

Desirable

• Experience providing a clinical pharmacy service in a hospital environment.
• Experience deputising for a more senior clinical pharmacist.
• RPS Core Advanced Curriculum or equivalent.
• Clinical research experience or willingness to undertake.
• Experience training staff using coaching or teaching methods.
• Knowledge of risk‑management principles.