Lead Advanced Pharmacist - Women’s Services RSCH/PRH
The closing date is 17 May 2026.
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.
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 Women’s 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 Women’s Services including prescribing verification, medicines reconciliation, incidents, audit and risk management.
* Develop and implement clinical guidelines, protocols and pathways for medicines use across Women’s 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 internal and 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.
Qualifications
* Registered as a Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Further specialist knowledge through post Diploma level training
* NMP
* Acute hospital pharmacy experience
* Experience managing use of medicine in pregnancy and breast feeding inquiries
* Guideline development, formulary submissions or protocol reviews
* Member of the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacist Group (NPPG) / +/- UKCPA Women’s Health
* Experience of working within women’s services
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
* Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
* Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
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.
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
£57,528 to £64,750 a year (per annum pro rata)
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