# Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacist
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Extended hours with evening and weekend committment)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T14:14:39.219Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttonInAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8258374
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8258374?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our new Emergency Department pharmacy service. There is opportunity to develop advanced practice and enhance leadership skills and knowledge with an emphasis on innovation. You will be supported to identify and enhance services alongside the multidisciplinary team who are enthusiastic to work collaboratively to deliver optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients.

This role focuses on the leadership of the new service in ensuring patients have

Key Responsibilities:

- Ensuring patients in the Emergency Department receive critical medicines within the time frames required
- Ensuring medicines management processes are monitored and updated in line with local, regional and national standards
- Support the Emergency medicine MDT in efficient ways of working to maximise individuals skill-set
- Monitor and identify cost effective medicine initiatives in the Emergency Department
- Support the clinical pharmacy service in delivering against locally agreed KPIs

Join us and be part of a collaborative team dedicated to delivering optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients. This is your chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking healthcare setting.

### Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Flexibility in working hours.
- Able to work extended hours including evening cover and weekends

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course.
- Experience gained through successful completion of pre-registration training.
- Significant hospital pharmacy experience gained through vocational practice.
- Awareness of NHS priorities in clinical area (Emergency Medicine)

**Desirable**

- Experience of specialist work within Emergency Medicine
- Evidence-based practice.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of extended clinical pharmacy roles
- Experience of staff management.
- Experience of medicine evaluation and expenditure reporting
- Experience of audit and quality improvement
- Experience of change management.
- Problem solving ability
- Excellent communication skills in all forms
- Proven ability to negotiate and influence at all levels
- Proactive and innovative
- Good organisational/time management skills

**Desirable**

- Delivering defined projects against deadlines
- Teaching experience.
- Practice research.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
- Independent prescribing

**Desirable**

- Post-graduate studies relevant to clinical pharmacy
- Qualification in leadership and/or management.

### Further Training

**Essential**

- Training in of medicine usage evaluation and/or financial reporting or demonstratable equivalent experience
- Audit and/or quality improvement training or demonstratable equivalent experience

**Desirable**

- Leadership development training

## Documents

- [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702)
- [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448)
- [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938)
- [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492)
- [lead pharmacist - emergency department (pdf, 816.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10574881)

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