Lead Pharmacist Inpatient and Urgent Care - East Sussex

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Hastings; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Hastings is seeking a Lead Pharmacist for Inpatient and Urgent Care services. The ideal candidate will have mental health experience and excellent clinical skills to offer medication advice while supporting a committed pharmacy team. This role provides a structured support system and is part of a Trust rated as Outstanding for caring. The position offers a competitive salary and substantial benefits, including generous holiday entitlement and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Access to psychological support

Generous holiday entitlement

NHS Pension Scheme

Discount schemes

Qualifications

• Must have demonstrable evidence of meeting KSF for Specialist Pharmacist.
• Significant experience in hospital pharmacy including mental health services.
• Ability to provide written and verbal information on drug usage.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical cover for urgent care services.
• Offer advice on complex medicines queries.
• Support inpatient services with a structured pharmacy team.

Skills

Mental health experience

Excellent communication skills

Clinical pharmacy skills

Ability to work independently

Education

Degree in Pharmacy

Clinical Pharmacy postgraduate qualification

Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Lead Pharmacist Inpatient and Urgent Care - East Sussex

Are you a caring, engaging and innovative pharmacist? If so, you could be well suited to this role.

We are looking to recruit a highly committed band 8a Lead Pharmacist (Mental Health) to be part of the Trust Medicines Management Team working with our urgent care and inpatient services in East Sussex. This post will be based in Hastings to cover urgent care services and providing clinical cover to outlying units like Amberstone and Beechwood.

You will be offering advice on complex medicines queries along with delivering direct patient care, with the opportunity to become a qualified prescriber embedded within the team.

We are looking to recruit a pharmacist with mental health experience who is looking to develop their leadership skills.

This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Main duties of the job

This post presents a great opportunity for an experienced pharmacist motivated by the desire to provide excellent patient care to support the urgent care and inpatient services. You will be working with Specialist Pharmacists, Technicians and Assistants to provide this service.

The role demands an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to work on their own initiative.

The team provides a well-structured support system, access to professional training, and excellent opportunity for professional development.

There is no dispensary commitment with this role.

About us

We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.

Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trusts in the UK. The physical health of our mental health patients is important to us and with the life expectancy of patients with serious mental health dying 15 to 20 years earlier, the trust is committed to reducing this risk and pharmacy plays a key role in this.

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

You can expect:

• Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes.
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays) pro rata
• Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

Job description

Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries please feel free to contact to discuss further, we would be more than happy to chat through the particulars of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy at a British School of Pharmacy, or recognised equivalent
• Clinical Pharmacy post graduate qualification (e.g. certificate or diploma)
• Registered Member of General Pharmaceutical Council.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

• To have demonstrable evidence of having met the full gateway KSF for 7 Specialist Pharmacist
• Experience of working with different healthcare professions and managers across the wider healthcare economy
• Can demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them.
• Demonstrable expertise in highly relevant field of pharmacy specialism
• Significant experience of working within a hospital pharmacy department post qualification, including experience in mental health service provision
• Experience of working with working age mental health services.
• Excellent clinical pharmacy skills with particular emphasis on medicines used in mental health
• Experience in providing both written and verbal information on drug usage
• Experience in carrying out Medicines Information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice

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 lived 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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cavendish House Breeds Place Hastings TN34 3AA

Employer's website

https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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