Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 214-CSTO-7268931
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton-In-Ashfield
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Specialist Lead Pharmacist - Paediatrics and Neonatal
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our paediatric and neonatal pharmacy service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. This role offers opportunities for advanced practice development, leadership growth, and innovation.
You will collaborate with paediatricians to enhance services and deliver optimal pharmaceutical care for infants, children, and young people, whether acutely ill or managing long-term conditions.
Our inpatient service includes a 12-bed neonatal intensive care unit, two developing level-2 paediatric intensive care beds, and 27 paediatric inpatient beds. The paediatric and neonatal services are regionally and nationally recognized for patient-centred, innovative care.
The post holder needs to have completed a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and has experience of independent prescribing in this specialist area. We will also consider applications from pharmacists on the pathway to achieving the necessary knowledge and prescribing experience with the potential for this to be a progression role with the necessary support put in place.
Main duties of the job
This role offers the unique opportunity to provide ward-based pharmacy services to paediatric and neonatal clinical areas while also driving innovative improvements in line with governance, legislation, and cost-optimization goals. You will be at the forefront of enhancing pharmaceutical care and services for our youngest patients.
As the lead pharmacist, you will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality care to paediatric and neonatal patients, guided by national, regional, and local directives. This is a chance to shape the future of pharmacy services within a dynamic and forward-thinking healthcare environment.
This role is perfect for a pharmacist eager to lead, innovate, and make a real difference in patient care.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached
Further exciting developments in this specialism include the potential roll out of EPMA across the paediatric inpatient areas in the near future.
We actively encourage opportunities for research, service improvement, and pursuing postgraduate qualifications.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course
- Experience gained through 1 year pre-registration training.
- Experience gained through vocational practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of staff management
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study or equivalent experience including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate studies
- Qualification in management
- Independent prescribing
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Experience of medicine usage evaluation and financial reporting
- Audit and/or quality improvement experience
Desirable criteria
- Practice research.
- Project work.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date.
- Appropriate experience of hospital pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Evidence-based practice.
- Teaching experience
- Experience of extended roles
- Experience of specialist work within the medical area.
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Flexibility.
- Able to work extended hours
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Clymer
- Job title
- Assistant Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623622515
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