Job Title: Lead Pharmacist
Agency: University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
Location: United Kingdom, Worthing
Salary/Rate: 57,528 to 64,750 £ / Year

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Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist with a passion for working within elderly care to join our clinical pharmacy team at University Hospitals Sussex as the lead pharmacist for Elderly Care at Worthing and St. Richard’s Hospital.

The successful candidate will be engaged in actively reviewing patients across our elderly care wards alongside our junior pharmacist team and will have close contact with the MDT to provide excellent standards of care. We seek a clinically experienced pharmacist with a passion to develop their skills in this area. As a senior member of the pharmacy team, you will be an integral part of the 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 electronic prescribing present on all our elderly care wards.

You will have delegated responsibility for all our elderly care wards and supervision of the team within your rotations. 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 are a friendly, very supportive team both within pharmacy and the wider team. We welcome contact from any interested parties to discuss the role and visit the department to find out more.

We welcome applications for Band 7 pharmacists looking for a Band 7 to 8a progressional role.

Main duties of the job

To have delegated responsibility for leading the provision of a specialist clinical pharmacy service to elderly care patients, admissions, inpatients, and discharges within the Trust.

Will provide an expert level of clinical pharmacy services to elderly care (including acute frailty if required) across Worthing and St. Richard’s Hospitals as part of UHSussex NHS Foundation Trust

Will lead specialist clinical pharmacy practice for acute frailty and elderly care and be responsible for the delivery, development, evaluation and coordination of clinical pharmacy services to Elderly Care in line with the objectives of the division and the UHSussex pharmacy strategy in collaboration with any cross-site counterparts.

Is responsible for all aspects of medicines management to optimise patients’ care involving the use of medication in elderly care.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

• Registered Member of the GPhC

Desirable

• Member of the UKCPA or other specialist interest group
• RPS Faculty membership or working towards

Experience

Essential

• Further post-graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy at PG diploma level or sufficient experience gained in practice to equate to this level of training

Desirable

• Independent prescriber
• PG leadership or management qualification

Skills

Essential

• Significant experience in clinical hospital pharmacy in a broad range of specialties
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience in working in an MDT
• Experience of planning and reporting service audits

Desirable

• working as a specialist pharmacist within elderly care

People Management and Development

Essential

• General teaching and tutoring experience

Desirable

• Staff Management Experience
• Explicit experience with being a DS for a trainee pharmacist
• Explicit experience with being a ES for a foundation pharmacist

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equality issues
• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

How to Apply;

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