Job summary
As a Specialist Renal Pharmacist, you will provide expert pharmaceutical care to a high-acuity, highly complex renal patient group.

This role strengthens pharmacy input across dialysis units, renal outpatient clinics and inpatient wards. You will gain experience in all areas of renal pharmacy, supported to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours through mapping to the Advanced Pharmacy Framework and the Renal Expert Professional Practice Curriculum.

You will join our established team of pharmacists and technicians, supported by the Principal Pharmacist for Renal Medicine. The RWT Pharmacy Team are proud winners of the Trust's Clinical Team of the Year Award 2024, and our positive staff survey results reflect our supportive culture.

This post is 0.8 WTE, with potential to increase to 1.0 WTE subject to future funding.

We recognise the wide opportunities available to pharmacy professionals, and if you join us, we want you to feel valued and supported. We will work with you to fulfil your potential alongside our pharmacy education and training team.

Applicants must be GPhC-registered with broad hospital pharmacy experience, including renal medicine. Independent prescribing is desirable, though full support will be provided if not yet achieved.

If you believe you hold the qualities we require, then please apply!

Interviews will be week commencing 31st August 2026.

Main duties of the job

• Support the Principal pharmacist to deliver an expert level of clinical pharmacy services to wards and departments within renal services inclusive of (not exhaustive): Renal wards, Dialysis units (including New Cross, Cannock and local off-site satellite units), Clinics e.g. transplant.
• To act as a role model as a senior pharmacist in terms of clinical practice, including as an independent prescriber.
• To provide specialist clinical pharmacy advice to patients of the renal service and liaise with the consultants and nursing teams to support safe and appropriate prescribing in this patient group.
• To provide support with education, training, service development and quality improvement initiatives in relation to renal specialities for both the directorate and pharmacy team.
• There will be delegated responsibility for leading on designated sub-specialty within renal services (e.g. dialysis, ward based) on a rotational basis with other postholder(s).
• There will be an expectation that all senior renal medicine pharmacists will liaise with each other and cross cover as appropriate.

About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We work together, and in conjunction with other stake holders, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

The Pharmacy department has a 'can do' attitude and strives to always provide the best service possible to our patients and our colleagues. The pharmacy vision is to be a 'service without walls', integrated not only within the ward teams supporting excellent patient care but bridging the gap between secondary and primary care teams. We are a multicultural and diverse department with a very friendly professional working environment promoting a strong health and wellbeing agenda for our workforce.

Details
Date posted: 05 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year pro rata per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 225-DIV3-8114927
Job locations: Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, New Cross Hospital Pharmacy Department, Wolverhampton Rd, Heath Town, Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please read the attached documents for more information regarding the detail of expected duties and personal specifications.

Person Specification
Qualification
Essential

• To have or be working towards a postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent qualification (score 2 if in progress)
• Registered pharmacist with the GPhC

Desirable

• Postgraduate management qualification or relevant management experience
• An independent prescriber (2 marks if working towards it)

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working as part of the Pharmacy team within Renal services. Ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge of pharmacy in the specialty area.
• Demonstrable experience of working in an acute Trust setting.
• Ability to work both on own initiative and to co-operate within a team to achieve desired outcomes.

Desirable

• Experience in supervising, training and assessing staff.
• Experience of working in outpatient clinic settings

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).