Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

Sfh Tr; Stanton Hill; 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. The role offers potential for advanced practice and leadership development within a collaborative MDT.

You will help deliver optimal pharmaceutical care, maintain medicines governance, and drive initiatives aligned with national NHS standards. This is a demanding, rewarding position in a forward-thinking trust.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree in Pharmacy and GPhC registration.
• Post-graduate studies in clinical pharmacy or CPPE pathway.
• Independent prescribing qualification and leadership training.
• Experience leading a pharmacy service in a hospital setting.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure ED patients receive critical medicines within required time frames.
• Monitor and update medicines management processes to standards.
• Support Emergency Medicine MDT to maximise skills and efficiency.
• Identify cost-effective medicine initiatives in the ED.
• Support the clinical pharmacy service in achieving KPIs.

Skills

Excellent communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Negotiation & influence

Teaching experience

Change management

Team collaboration

Education

BSc/BPharm/MPharm

GPhC registration

Clinical pharmacy MSc/ Diploma

Independent prescribing

Leadership/management qualification

Job description

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Extended hours with evening and weekend committment) Job ref 214-CSTO-8258374

Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton-In-Ashfield Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

Job overview

Sherwood Forest Hospitalsare 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.

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

• 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
• Post-graduate studies relevant to clinical pharmacy
• Qualification in leadership and/or management.

Knowledge

• 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)
• Experience of specialist work within Emergency Medicine
• Evidence-based practice.

Experience

• 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
• Delivering defined projects against deadlines
• Teaching experience.
• Practice research.

Further Training

• Training in of medicine usage evaluation and/or financial reporting or demonstratable equivalent experience
• Audit and/or quality improvement training or demonstratable equivalent experience

Other

• Flexibility in working hours.
• Able to work extended hours including evening cover and weekends

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Home Office guidance has changed. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

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For the avoidance of doubt, plagiarism includes presenting the ideas or experiences of others or content generated by artificial intelligence as your own. We review all applications carefully to ensure that the information provided in your supporting statement aligns with your qualifications, work history and the duties undertaken within those roles. Your experience will also be explored further during the interview process.

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We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change. If a high number of applications are received, a longlisting exercise will be conducted prior to shortlisting.

Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.

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Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and then the money will then be deducted from your first salary once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.

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Name Mark Clymer Job title Assistant Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01623622515 Additional information 01623 622515 ext. 3178