Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
22 October 2026
3 days leftJob description
Sherwood Forest Hospitalsare seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our new Emergency Department pharmacy service. There...
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Qualifications
Essential
- BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
- Independent prescribing
Desirable: - Post-graduate studies relevant to clinical pharmacy; - Qualification in leadership and/or management.
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course.
- Experience gained through successful completion of pre-registration training.
- Significant hospital pharmacy experience gained through vocational practice.
- Awareness of NHS priorities in clinical area (Emergency Medicine)
Desirable: - Experience of specialist work within Emergency Medicine; - Evidence-based practice.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of extended clinical pharmacy roles
- Experience of staff management.
- Experience of medicine evaluation and expenditure reporting
- Experience of audit and quality improvement
- Experience of change management.
- Problem solving ability
- Excellent communication skills in all forms
- Proven ability to negotiate and influence at all levels
- Proactive and innovative
- Good organisational/time management skills
Desirable: - Delivering defined projects against deadlines; - Teaching experience.; - Practice research.
Further Training
Essential
- Training in of medicine usage evaluation and/or financial reporting or demonstratable equivalent experience
- Audit and/or quality improvement training or demonstratable equivalent experience
Desirable: - Leadership development training
Other
Essential: - Flexibility in working hours.; - Able to work extended hours including evening cover and weekends
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
8 October 2026
Last checked
8 October 2026
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