Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8a Contract 12 months (Fixed term for 12 months) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday) Job
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Site Hellesdon Hospital Town Norwich Salary £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum/ pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 05/11/2026 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.

Are you a pharmacist looking for a new challenge in a senior leadership role?

We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic registered pharmacist to join our friendly pharmacy team. This full-time post (37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday) is based at Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich.

You will lead and develop clinical pharmacy services across designated inpatient wards, providing expert clinical input within multidisciplinary teams, line management and professional support to pharmacy staff, and operational leadership for designated pharmacy services on behalf of the Head of Clinical Services. You will also contribute to service improvement and medicines optimisation initiatives.

You must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, prioritisation and organisational skills are essential.

Please note this is a fixed-term position for one year.

The post holder will;

• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines related care to service users with mental illness or learning disabilities in inpatient and community settings.
• Be responsible for the operational delivery and development of pharmacy services to a clinical team within a specified geographical area.
• Be responsible for providing pharmacy and medicines related care to allocated teams to ensure medicines prescribed are safe, effective, optimised and appropriate.
• Lead and manage designated pharmacy services on behalf of the Head of Clinical Services, ensuring delivery of service objectives, performance standards, quality improvement and ongoing development.
• Provide professional pharmacist support to the site you are based and mentor other pharmacists in the trust (including trainees) as required.
• Undertake line management responsibility for pharmacy staff.
• Have a responsibility to educate and develop the pharmacy and wider healthcare workforce as part of a teaching organisation.
• Divide your time between operational and service management responsibilities, hands‑on clinical pharmacy provision to allocated wards/units, and leadership of designated specialist pharmacy services, including Medicines Information and other services as required.

Benefits of working for NSFT includes:

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• Comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

• Detailed knowledge of clinical pharmacy
• Detailed knowledge of mental health therapeutics

• Master's degree in pharmacy…