Employer University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Richards Hospital Town Chichester Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2026 23:59
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist with a passion for emergency care to join our clinical pharmacist team at University Hospitals Sussex. This role is for the lead pharmacist for our Emergency Department at St Richards Hospital. The successful candidate will be engaged in actively reviewing patients in ED and will have close contact with clinical teams to help provide excellent standards of care. We seek a clinically experienced pharmacist with a passion to develop skills in this area. As a senior member of the Trust clinical pharmacy team, you will be an integral part of the pharmacy department and help support and promote our pharmacy and clinical strategies.
We welcome applications for Band 7 pharmacists looking for a Band 7 to 8a progressional role.
Main duties of the job
To provide pharmacy leadership and development of specialist clinical pharmacy services to the Emergency Department (ED) at St Richards Hospital.
The post holder will be a key member of both the pharmacy and emergency department teams, supporting the Pharmacist Team Leader – Clinical – Medicine to ensure that a high quality patient orientated clinical pharmacy service is developed and provided to the EDs within the Trust.
On a day to day basis the post holder will provide a clinical pharmacy service to patients attending the ED, using independent prescribing (IP) skills as required if available.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route; however, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds (£25,000), and any role‑specific criteria.
Person specification
Professional registration
* Registered member of the GPhC.
* Member of UKCPA or other relevant specialist interest group.
* RPS faculty membership or working towards.
Experience
* Further post‑graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy at PG diploma level or sufficient experience gained in practice to equate to this level of training.
* Independent prescriber.
* PG leadership or management qualification.
Skills
* Experience of planning and reporting service audits.
* Significant experience in clinical hospital pharmacy in a broad range of specialties.
* Experience in working in an MDT.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Working as a specialist pharmacist within the field of emergency medicine.
* Experience in provision of a clinical pharmacy service to acute medicine.
People management and development
* Teaching and tutoring experience.
* Teaching and training experience.
* Tutoring experience.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
* Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.
* Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
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