About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated pharmacists to join our Medicine Team as Deputy Divisional Lead Pharmacist. This full-time role offers the chance to develop advanced clinical, leadership and service-development skills while contributing directly to high-quality patient care across the Trust. Although primarily based at King's Mill Hospital, occasional cover at Newark Hospital and Mansfield Community Hospital may be required.
The successful candidate will receive structured training to deliver high-level clinical pharmacy support across several high-risk medication areas. Our pharmacy department is committed to staff development, and you will gain experience across the RPS Professional Standards for Hospital Pharmacy Services. You will also be supported to complete an independent prescribing qualification and apply this skill at ward level.
Key responsibilities include leading a team of pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians within the division, participating in specialist clinical governance meetings as deputy to the Divisional Lead, and delivering training to non-pharmacy colleagues. You will contribute to safe medicines practice through risk assessments, clinical guideline development, audit activity and medicines expenditure analysis. This role offers an excellent platform for career progression within a supportive and forward-thinking department.
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Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Essential
Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a Pharmacy degree course. Experience gained through preregistration training Experience gained through vocational practice
Qualifications Essential
BSc, BPharm or MSc in Pharmacy Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council Diploma or MSc in hospital clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study OR Certificate or diploma in community pharmacy plus successful 6 months band 6 probation OR the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
Desirable
Post-graduate studies. Qualification in management Independent prescribing
Further Training Essential
Audit and/or quality improvement
Desirable
Relevant training courses e.g. CPPE
Experience Essential
Experience of medicine usage evaluation and financial reporting Audit and/or quality improvement experience Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date Appropriate experience of hospital pharmacy OR Equivalent advanced practice in primary care Strong interpersonal skills Good written and verbal communication skills Good IT skills Audit experience Time management skills Good organisational skills Prioritisation skills Evidence of commitment to CPD
Desirable
Project work Practice research Evidence-based practice Teaching experience Experience of extended roles Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams Experience of providing a specialist pharmacy service of some description
Other Essential
Flexibility in working hours. Able to work extended hours and on call as needed.
Desirable
Car driver.
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.
UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-In-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)