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Specialist Lead Pharmacist - Paediatrics and Neonatal
The closing date is 14 July 2025
We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our paediatric and neonatal pharmacy service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. This role offers opportunities for advanced practice development, leadership growth, and innovation.
You will collaborate with paediatricians to enhance services and deliver optimal pharmaceutical care for infants, children, and young people, whether acutely ill or managing long-term conditions.
Our inpatient service includes a 12-bed neonatal intensive care unit, two developing level-2 paediatric intensive care beds, and 27 paediatric inpatient beds. The paediatric and neonatal services are regionally and nationally recognized for patient-centred, innovative care.
The post holder needs to have completed a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and has experience of independent prescribing in this specialist area. We will also consider applications from pharmacists on the pathway to achieving the necessary knowledge and prescribing experience with the potential for this to be a progression role with the necessary support put in place.
Main duties of the job
This role offers the unique opportunity to provide ward-based pharmacy services to paediatric and neonatal clinical areas while also driving innovative improvements in line with governance, legislation, and cost-optimization goals. You will be at the forefront of enhancing pharmaceutical care and services for our youngest patients.
As the lead pharmacist, you will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality care to paediatric and neonatal patients, guided by national, regional, and local directives. This is a chance to shape the future of pharmacy services within a dynamic and forward-thinking healthcare environment.
This role is perfect for a pharmacist eager to lead, innovate, and make a real difference in patient care.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Job responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached
Further exciting developments in this specialism include the potential roll out of EPMA across the paediatric inpatient areas in the near future.
We actively encourage opportunities for research, service improvement, and pursuing postgraduate qualifications.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
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Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person Specification
Knowledge
* Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course
* Experience gained through 1 year pre-registration training.
* Experience gained through vocational practice.
* Experience of staff management
Qualifications
* BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study or equivalent experience including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
* Qualification in management
* Independent prescribing
Further Training
* Experience of medicine usage evaluation and financial reporting
* Audit and/or quality improvement experience
* Practice research.
Experience
* Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date.
* Appropriate experience of hospital pharmacy
* Evidence-based practice.
* Teaching experience
* Experience of extended roles
* Experience of specialist work within the medical area.
Contractual Requirements
* Flexibility.
* Able to work extended hours
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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