Employer South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trust Headquarters Town Crawley Salary £55,690 - £62,682 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 28/02/2026 08:00
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist IUC
NHS AfC: Band 8a
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.
Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.
Job overview
Are you a Clinical Pharmacist wondering what other roles are out there? Would you like to broaden your knowledge into pre-hospital medicines and find out how you can make a difference to the ambulance service ?
Then come and join us ! Work with ou r multi-disciplinary team, responsible for leading and delivering excellent clinical care and advice across the Trust, both in our 999 and 111 services .
As the Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Integrated Urgent Care (IUC), you will provide leadership and advice on all matters associated with medicines optimisation and clinical pharmacy services across the Trust and within our NHS 111 service ; driving service improvement using technology to enable the best and most efficient use of resources.
Quality improvement is a key part of this role and you will use incidents, national guidance and best practice to develop education programmes that meet the needs of our staff and our patients.
Main duties of the job
The core responsibilities for this role are:
* To ensure that the Trust is compliant with the legal and statutory requirements in relation to all matters that pertain to medicines governance, management and optimisation.
* To support the Deputy Chief Pharmacist with 111 medicines optimisation, IUC antimicrobial stewardship and IUC non-medical prescribing workstreams such as quarterly prescribing reports, extracting and analysing data from NHSBSA and supervising pharmacy student audit projects and placements.
* To support activities in the Medicines Distribution Centre (MDC) as required for high quality service delivery.
* To deliver teaching sessions to paramedics, medical and nursing staff and other health care professionals as requested.
* Provide expert and specialist knowledge in relation to medicinal products and their use as well as assist in the development of new clinical protocols and treatment options including the development of patient group directions (PGDs).
* Develop guidelines, policies and procedures for medicines use within the Trust as required.
* Represent SECAmb Medicines Optimisation Team at relevant meetings and working groups across the system.
* Act as a supervisor and mentor for projects and audits, including those with relevant pharmacy undergraduate students.
* To plan and review pharmacy undergraduate placements.
Working for our organisation
* Option to join NHS pension scheme
* A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
* Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
* Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
* Access to occupational health and counselling services.
* Back up buddy App
* Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will also:
* Develop systems to ensure medicinal products are stored appropriately and securely on all Trust premises and vehicles, complying with national, statutory and local requirements
* Assist the Chief and Deputy Chief Pharmacists on all matters relating to medicine management and governance within the Trust
* Contribute to medicines management within designated areas to ensure the requirements of CQC and other key governance frameworks are met.
Contact Rachel Howatson, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, for a chat to find out more about this exciting and developing role .
Person specification
Qualifications
* Master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
* Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent)
* Has/Working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent)
* Has/working towards an independent prescribing qualification
Experience
* Previous employment or experience in a primary or secondary organisation in a education/clinical advisory/supervisory role
* At least four years post qualification experience
* Track record of successful multidisciplinary team working
* Experience of continual training or supervising staff
* Evidence of track record in supporting and promoting effective prescribing in primary and secondary care
* Experience of managing the delivery of operational services and achievement of performance targets
* Experience of using risk management reporting systems and undertaking clinical investigations into incidents and complaints
* Experience of influencing change
Knowledge
* Understanding of National and local priorities
* Able to interpret and summarise a wide range of clinical information and demonstrate appropriate clinical knowledge and application
* Good knowledge and understanding of the formulation, preparation, and therapeutic action of medicines
* Understanding of clinical and information governance and underpinning guidance, processes and policies
* An understanding of the nature of primary and secondary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing, medicines optimisation and strategies for improving prescribing
* Understanding of the wider healthcare community and the interface with emergency care services
Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.
Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.
In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.
Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.
The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.
We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.
The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable.
We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.
When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.
The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.
Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact recruitment@secamb.nhs.uk stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.
When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.
Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.
Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.
Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.
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If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on our dedicatedSection 2 page on The Zon e.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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