Lead Pharmacist - Medicine, Education & Training | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare institution in the UK is seeking an experienced Lead Pharmacist for General Medicine. You will oversee clinical pharmacy services and lead the education and training team. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and a proven track record in service delivery. Join us to enhance patient care and support the pharmacy team in a vibrant environment. This role may close early due to numerous applications. Apply soon!

Qualifications

• Experience as a pharmacist across various clinical areas.
• Ability to lead pharmacy clinical services.
• History of delivering changes in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service to wards and outpatient services.
• Attend clinical ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Supervise trainee pharmacists and students.
• Promote safe and economic drug use.

Skills

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Service delivery

Leadership

Pharmaceutical knowledge

Education

Registered pharmacist degree

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a lead pharmacist for General Medicine and to take overarching responsibility for our education and training team at the Southend site.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open minded and dynamic pharmacist who is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal / relationship building skills.

You will lead the pharmacy clinical service within your specialty day to day at the Southend Hospital site, supporting the site Clinical Lead Pharmacist by ensuring patients receive a safe and effective service.

You will work closely with the other lead clinical pharmacists for Medicine based at the Basildon and Broomfield sites.

You will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and is now ready to specialise in adult medicine.

Have experience in good service delivery and management, and a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments.

Please be aware this role may close early due to number of applications

Main duties

• Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge and outpatients service
• Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate
• Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.
• Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
• Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.
• Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.
• Take part in the emergency on-call pharmacist rota. Working alone as the on call pharmacist, provide: medicines information, advice and supply out of hours, and sourcing of urgently required drugs from external suppliers.
• To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Risk Governance Pharmacy Team with the medicines optimisation and governance agenda.
• Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.
• Implement local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g. NICE.
• Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward-based technicians.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Are you looking for an exciting Lead Pharmacist role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you?

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

This advert closes on Monday 29 Sep 2025