Advanced Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Antimicrobial Therapy

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist to lead antimicrobial stewardship across the Trust. Based at King’s Mill Hospital, the role focuses on safe, cost-effective antimicrobial prescribing, guideline development, and monitoring usage and expenditure.

You will influence clinical practice, drive change, and develop specialist expertise in antimicrobial stewardship while supporting patient safety and the Trust’s strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Essential: BSc, B.Pharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
• Essential: Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Essential: Diploma in clinical pharmacy gained through postgraduate study or equivalent experience
• Desirable: Specialist post-graduate qualification or evidence of specialist post-graduate studies, particularly in the field of antimicrobial drug therapy.
• Desirable: Qualified independent prescriber
• Desirable: Evidence of commitment to CPD

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain antimicrobial guidelines
• Audit clinical practice and monitor antimicrobial usage
• Monitor antimicrobial expenditure and cost-effectiveness
• Lead on antimicrobial prescribing practice across the Trust

Skills

Antimicrobial stewardship leadership

Clinical governance

Budget monitoring

Audit and data analysis

Time management

Education

BSc/B.Pharm/MPharm in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

Diploma in clinical pharmacy

Specialist postgraduate qualification (desirable)

Independent prescriber (desirable)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job summary

Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist with a passion for antimicrobial stewardship and improving patient outcomes? We have an exciting opportunity for a confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacist to join our team in a high-profile role supporting the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based antimicrobial prescribing across the Trust.

Based at King\'s Mill Hospital, this part-time position offers the chance to play a key role in shaping antimicrobial stewardship practice, helping to ensure the safe, rational and cost-effective use of antimicrobials while supporting the organisation to achieve local, regional and national prescribing targets.

As a senior member of the pharmacy team, you will take responsibility and accountability for the development, implementation and monitoring of antimicrobial prescribing practice across the Trust. This will include developing and maintaining antimicrobial guidelines, auditing clinical practice, monitoring antimicrobial usage and expenditure and more.

We are looking for a pharmacist who can influence clinical practice and lead positive change.

This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your specialist expertise within antimicrobial stewardship while making a significant contribution to patient safety, quality of care and the Trust\'s strategic objectives.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

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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Details

Date posted: 23 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 214-CSTO-8361573

Job locations: King\'s Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential: BSc, B.Pharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
• Essential: Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Essential: Diploma in clinical pharmacy gained through postgraduate study or equivalent experience
• Desirable: Specialist post-graduate qualification or evidence of specialist post-graduate studies, particularly in the field of antimicrobial drug therapy.
• Desirable: Qualified independent prescriber
• Desirable: Evidence of commitment to CPD

Knowledge

• Essential: Pharmacy knowledge associated with a Pharmacy degree course
• Essential: Experience gained through pre-registration training
• Essential: Experience gained through vocational practice
• Essential: Computer literate (Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher)
• Desirable: Experience of teaching pharmaceutical knowledge to other pharmacy staff.
• Desirable: Experience of staff supervision/management

Further Training

• Essential: Experience of drug usage evaluation, financial reporting and critical appraisal
• Essential: Audit experience
• Essential: Project work
• Desirable: Practice research

Experience

• Essential: Recent experience of hospital pharmacy with time spent in a specialist pharmacist role
• Essential: Pharmacy knowledge (clinical and operational) from aspects of career to date
• Essential: Well-developed time management and organisational skills
• Essential: Strong written and oral communicator and presenter, with experience of negotiation and persuasion
• Essential: Experience of developing and using electronic databases
• Essential: Experience of working with a variety of different professional groups e.g. multi-disciplinary team working
• Desirable: Evidence-based practice
• Desirable: Experience of providing drug usage reports and feedback of information to clinicians within a specialty
• Desirable: Experience of delivering education
• Desirable: Experience of extended roles
• Desirable: Experience of implementing change

Contractual Requirements

• Essential: Flexibility
• Essential: Able to work extended hours and On-Call if required
• Desirable: Car driver

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: King\'s Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Assistant Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services, Mark Clymer, [e-mail], 01623622515

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