Lead Advanced Pharmacist - Women’s Services RSCH/PRH

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Advanced Pharmacist – Women’s Services to join the Pharmacy team at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. This is a new role for the Trust, developed to strengthen specialist pharmacy leadership and governance across Women’s Services

This senior clinical leadership post provides expert pharmacy input across maternity, gynaecology, maternal medicine and neonatal interfaces, working across designated hospital sites within the Trust. The post holder will lead the planning, delivery, development and governance of Women’s Services pharmacy provision, ensuring safe, effective and equitable use of medicines for women, pregnant people and neonates

Women’s Services use a wide range of specialist medicines during pregnancy, the postnatal period, breastfeeding and neonatal care. This role provides advanced clinical leadership and independent prescribing expertise to support medicines optimisation, patient safety, regulatory compliance and service resilience, in line with national guidance and Trust priorities

The post holder will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, regional and national networks, commissioners and external partners, and will play a key role in medicines governance, quality improvement, workforce development and cross-site standardisation. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced senior pharmacist to establish, shape and lead a new specialist role within a large, complex and forward-looking Trust

Main duties of the job

Establish and lead a specialist pharmacy role for Womens Services, providing senior clinical leadership and acting as expert for medicines optimisation in maternity, gynaecology, maternal medicine and neonatal interfaces.

Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input across hospital sites, ensuring consistent pharmacy provision and cross site working.

Work as an independent prescriber, initiating, reviewing and optimising medicines within scope of practice, including high risk, unlicensed and specialist therapies in pregnancy, postnatal, breastfeeding and neonatal care.

Lead medicines governance for Womens Services including prescribing verification, medicines reconciliation, incidents, audit and risk management.

Develop and implement clinical guidelines, protocols and pathways for medicines use across Womens Services, aligned with national guidance.

Provide expert advice and leadership to MDTs including obstetric, gynaecology, maternal medicine, anaesthetic, midwifery and neonatal teams.

Lead service development and quality improvement using prescribing data and incident learning.

Support and develop pharmacy staff through supervision, education and workforce development.

Work with interna l/ external partners including primary care, community pharmacy, LMNS and commissioners.

Provide medicines optimisation and financial oversight including high cost medicines and budget monitoring.

Deputise for senior pharmacy colleagues to support service resilience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds, and any role-specific criteria. For example, applicants for the Senior HCA role must be able to evidence a minimum of 2 years’ experience in the same role to qualify for sponsorship.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.

**Please see the Job Description  for further details**