Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

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

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced pharmacist to lead and shape the new Emergency Department pharmacy service at King’s Mill Hospital. You will drive advanced practice, leadership and innovation within a collaborative multidisciplinary team to deliver optimal pharmaceutical care for patients.

The role focuses on leading the ED service, developing practice, and delivering against KPIs, with potential to influence local and national standards in pharmaceutical care.

Qualifications

• BSc, BPharm or MPharm and GPhC registration.
• Post-graduate CPPE pathway in clinical pharmacy.
• Independent prescribing.
• Post-graduate leadership/management qualification desirable.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy and NHS priorities.

Responsibilities

• Ensure ED patients receive critical medicines within required timeframes.
• Medicines management processes monitored and updated to standards.
• Support Emergency medicine MDT to optimise workflows and skill sets.
• Identify cost-effective medicine initiatives in the ED.
• Support the clinical pharmacy service to meet locally agreed KPIs.

Skills

Communication skills

Negotiation and influence

Problem solving

Leadership

Staff management

Time management

Education

BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy (CPPE pathway)

Independent prescribing

Job description

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our new Emergency Department pharmacy service. There is opportunity to develop advanced practice and enhance leadership skills and knowledge with an emphasis on innovation. You will be supported to identify and enhance services alongside the multidisciplinary team who are enthusiastic to work collaboratively to deliver optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients.

This role focuses on the leadership of the new service in ensuring patients have

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring patients in the Emergency Department receive critical medicines within the time frames required
• Ensuring medicines management processes are monitored and updated in line with local, regional and national standards
• Support the Emergency medicine MDT in efficient ways of working to maximise individuals skill-set
• Monitor and identify cost effective medicine initiatives in the Emergency Department
• Support the clinical pharmacy service in delivering against locally agreed KPIs

Join us and be part of a collaborative team dedicated to delivering optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients. This is your chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking healthcare setting.

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: 08 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 214-CSTO-8258374
• Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

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

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

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 (opens in a new window).

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/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

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

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.

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