# Senior Clinical Pharmacist Safety, Effectiveness and Governance > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacist-safety-effectiveness-and-governance/c8b7dcfb-e3da-4c9f-ac28-d55c7073a5bc - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacist-safety-effectiveness-and-governance/c8b7dcfb-e3da-4c9f-ac28-d55c7073a5bc.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Brighton General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, up to 37.5 hours per week.) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T06:01:26.316Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Sussex/Brighton/Sussex_Community_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Clinical_Pharmacist/Senior_Clinical_Pharmacist-v8245768 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8245768?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role is the senior clinical lead within the Medicines Management Team for Medicines Safety, Effectiveness and Governance and Adult Specialist Services. The postholder will play a key role in the review of medication incidents, audits, risk management processes and the development of policies and procedures that promote the safe and effective use of medicines across the organisation. You will chair our Trust-wide Patient Group Direction Group and support our Trust wide Medicines Safety & Governance Group. You will proactively identify opportunities for service improvement and contribute to policy, governance and quality developments that enhance patient outcomes, working collaboratively across services and multidisciplinary teams across the Trust to achieve positive outcomes. You will deliver a specialist clinical pharmacy service to adult inpatient bedded units, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to optimise medicines use and support safe, effective care. Alongside this, you will support and develop pharmacy colleagues, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and assistants, contributing to the ongoing growth and success of the Medicines Management Team. ### Main duties of the job As a senior clinical pharmacist you will - Lead and deliver on medicines safety, effectiveness and governance. - Chair the SCFT wide Patient Group Direction (PGD) group. - Lead and deliver on a specialist clinical pharmacy service to adult bedded units with regular commitments to wards and / or services within allocated area in SCFT. - Provide and develop a specialist clinical pharmacy service in order to improve the quality of patient care and to promote evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing and use of medicines. Identify risks related to medicines and manage these to ensure patient safety and improve patient experience. - Lead on medicine management project(s) across SCFT. - Provide training and education to clinical and healthcare staff. - Play a key role liaising with a range of colleagues in the Medicines Management Team and other members of staff, notably Prescribers, Nursing, Finance, Human Resources, Estates, Facilities, Transport and Health and Safety. - Participate in the ICU clinical pharmacy rota and any on-call duties (when implemented). - The post is allocated a base but will be expected to travel across to other bedded units and service areas in SCFT when required. - The post holder will be expected to work flexibly in line with hours of operation. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities This is an exciting time to join Sussex Community Foundation Trust, where you will be working at the interface of primary and secondary care, as the NHS implements three key shifts of the 10 year plan: hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention. You will be joining a friendly and supportive Medicines Management Team in a positive environment of collaboration across the Trust. Our Medicines Management Team support a wide range of services including Intermediate Care Units, Virtual Wards/Urgent Community Response, Rheumatology, Children and Young People, Medicines Optimisation Care Homes, and domiciliary Medicines Optimisation. We actively focus on continuous learning and improvement with staff expected to attend our quality improvement training. We support career development and can train pharmacists who wish to become prescribers. This role will have an office base and is expected to travel across the geography regularly. We support hybrid working, remotely and from home on an occasional basis to fit the service needs. See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience - Providing clinical pharmacy services within an acute setting or similar setting with direct patient contact. - Clinical audits. Full audit cycle. Plan, organise the collection of data, analyse data, findings, recommendations and audit report writing. Follow-ups - Experience of writing policies, procedures and protocols - Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge - Experience implementing national guidance and strategy relating to medicines - Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams. - Experience of implementing clinical governance and continuous improvement. - Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals. - Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety - Familiarity with the concepts of evidence based medicines. - Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines. - Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines **Desirable** - Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist. - Working with a community health services setting - Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems. - Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits. - Antimicrobial Stewardship knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services - Developing and writing patient group directions (PGDs) - Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these ### Qualifications **Essential** - Masters degree MPharm - Registered pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined) professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) UK. - Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent **Desirable** - MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent - Non-Medical Prescriber ### Other Requirements **Essential** - Requirement to travel cost effectively across the area covered by Sussex Community NHS Trust - Able to cope with interruptions when busy **Desirable** - Able to concentrate for extended periods ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Excellent organisational skills - Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data to assess risks and improve patient safety - Critical appraisal skills - Ability to communicate effectively and develop effective working relationships at all levels - Ability to work independently and within a team - Ability to challenge - Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations. - Ability to prioritise and manage own work and deliver within identified timelines. - Good written and verbal communication skills - Ability to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues - Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others - The ability to research and analyse complex information, judging the input required to arrive at robust and accurate conclusions and using these conclusions to inform decision-making - Computer skills including spreadsheets, presentations, or ECDL - Self-motivated and able to initiate change. - Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines. - Ability to write reports, SOP and other documents **Desirable** - Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net ## Documents - [staff benefits brochure (pdf, 484.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2262) - [easy read application form (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2435) - [about sussex community nhs foundation trust (pdf, 632.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2743) - [applicants guide to the use of generative ai in applications (pdf, 218.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2971) - [senior clinical pharmacist safety effectiveness and governance jd&pd (pdf, 241.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10557357) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.