Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are 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

• 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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• Date posted: 08 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 214-CSTO-8258374
• Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton-In-Ashfield, NG17 4JL
  , United Kingdom

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

Essential

• BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
• Independent prescribing

Desirable

• Post-graduate studies relevant to clinical pharmacy
• Qualification in leadership and/or management.

Essential

• Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course.
• Experience gained through successful completion of pre-registration…