Lead Pharmacist - Emergency Department

Lead Pharmacist - Emergency Department

The closing date is 04 May 2026

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 are a department that seeks to be a pioneer with the use of technology with a rollout of electronic prescribing coming soon to our ED departments.

We are committed to providing opportunities for you to develop your clinical & management skills. The Trust holds research as one of its key pillars you will have the opportunity to be involved with and develop skills in this area.

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.

Job 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 (£25000), and any role-specific criteria.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details

Person Specification professional registration

• Registered member of the GPhC.
• Member of UKCPA or other relevant specialist interest group
• RPS faculity 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)

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.

£57,528 to £64,750 a year Per annum pro rata