Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton-In-Ashfield Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

Sherwood Forest Hospitalsare seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our new Emergency Department pharmacy service. There is opportunity to develop advanced practice and enhance leadership skills and knowledge with an emphasis on innovation. You will be supported to identify and enhance services alongside the multidisciplinary team who are enthusiastic to work collaboratively to deliver optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients.

This role focuses on the leadership of the new service in ensuring patients have

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring patients in the Emergency Department receive critical medicines within the time frames required
• Ensuring medicines management processes are monitored and updated in line with local, regional and national standards
• Support the Emergency medicine MDT in efficient ways of working to maximise individuals skill-set
• Monitor and identify cost effective medicine initiatives in the Emergency Department
• Support the clinical pharmacy service in delivering against locally agreed KPIs

Join us and be part of a collaborative team dedicated to delivering optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients. This is your chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking healthcare setting.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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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