registered pharmacist

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Redhill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a registered pharmacist with over 5 years of experience for a specialist clinical pharmacy role. The successful candidate will coordinate a high-quality Medicines Information service, lead audits, and ensure compliance with established guidelines while promoting education and training. This role requires strong clinical reasoning, communication, and leadership skills, as well as a commitment to patient-first care and the trust's values. The position supports a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with relevant experience.
• 5+ years post-registration, with 3+ in specialist clinical pharmacy or management.
• Commitment to patient-first care and SASH values.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate a high-quality MI service providing advice to patients and stakeholders.
• Lead audits, risk assessments, and research.
• Support training and promote the Patient Medicines Helpline.
• Ensure compliance with UKMI standards.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Communication

Leadership

IT skills

Education

GPhC-recognised Pharmacy degree

Postgraduate clinical qualification or equivalent

Job description

Responsibilities

• Coordinate a high-quality MI service, providing accurate, timely, and evaluated advice to patients, GPs, pharmacists, and other stakeholders.
• Support safe, cost-effective prescribing and lead on audits, risk assessments, and research.
• Promote the Patient Medicines Helpline and deliver specialist education and training.
• Ensure compliance with UKMI standards and validate junior staff work.
• Drive service improvements and contribute to clinical guidelines and intranet content.
• Lead and develop the MI team, manage recruitment, and support staff development.
• Support Trust objectives including medicines optimisation, unlicensed drugs, and recalls.

Key Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with a GPhC-recognised Pharmacy degree and postgraduate clinical qualification or equivalent.
• 5+ years post-registration, 3+ in specialist clinical pharmacy or management.
• Strong clinical reasoning, communication, leadership, and IT skills.
• Commitment to patient-first care and SASH values.

Additional Information

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust operates a 24-hour service, 365 days a year. As such, all nursing, clinical, and operational roles may involve working on a 24/7 shift basis, unless otherwise specified during the recruitment process.

We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workforce and actively encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, race and ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process.

Successful candidates will be appointed to the first pay step within the band when they start with the Trust (unless they have previous relevant NHS continuous service). Thereafter individuals will progress up the pay steps in accordance with NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) terms and conditions. For part time roles you will receive a pro rata salary payment based on the appropriate pay step/point and hours worked in accordance with AfC and all medical and dental terms and conditions.

Note: Some vacancies may receive a high volume of applications. In such cases, the vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We take our responsibilities to the environment extremely seriously and have an ambitious Green Plan that we're delivering. Actions include having uniforms made from recycled plastic, 100% renewable electricity and planting 150 trees at East Surrey Hospital. Read our plan here.

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.