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Are you an experienced pharmacy leader ready to make a Trust-wide impact? We're looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking Divisional Pharmacy Professional Lead (DPPL) to join our senior pharmacy leadership team. Based within the Brighton & Hove (B&H) Division, you'll provide professional leadership for clinical and operational pharmacy services for B&H Division and Specialist Division. The post will support and deliver excellence in medicines optimisation and patient safety.

As DPPL, you'll work closely with divisional leadership teams to ensure high standards of medicines use and governance, drive quality improvement and lead innovation across services. You'll champion professional development and workforce wellbeing, helping our teams deliver outstanding, person-centred care that reflects our Trust values.

As DPPL for B&H you will also support the Deputy Chief Pharmacist in delivering the Education and Training agenda for our pharmacy professional workforce and our wider multi-disciplinary team.

Our pharmacy service was named APTUK Pharmacy Technician Team of the Year 2025, recognised nationally for innovation, collaboration and advancing pharmacy technician practice in mental health.

This is a high-impact leadership role, ideal for a senior pharmacist with extensive experience in clinical pharmacy, service transformation, and medicines governance - someone passionate about empowering teams and improving outcomes for patients.

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
• 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

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

You will bring:

• Significant post-registration experience and a strong record of leadership in clinical pharmacy services
• Expert knowledge of medicines optimisation, governance , and CQC standards
• A collaborative approach to working across multidisciplinary teams and Divisions

Join us in shaping the future of pharmacy services across Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - ensuring every patient receives safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Apply now to lead, inspire, and innovate in pharmacy practice.

* For a more detailed account of the main responsibilities of this role, please see the attached job description.

• Educated to master's level or equivalent in a health-related field
• Evidence of significant relevant professional development
• Registered pharmacist (General Pharmaceutical Council)
• Proven ability to perform at strategic and senior management level

• Significant experience at a senior pharmacist level leading mental health and learning disability practice
• Professional regulatory experience - GPhC
• Pharmacy workforce, inc. recruitment and retention
• Medicines optimisation, governance and assurance processes
• Analysing highly complex information and developing practical and workable solutions to address them at pace.
• Experience of thinking and planning long term strategy
• Being able to prioritise programmes of work in the face of competing demands.
• Experience of managing and delivering to deadlines and within resources.
• Experience of achievement in negotiating and influencing others.
• Writing papers for sub committees
• Strong record of multi-professional collaborator internally and externally

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.