• Job Description

  Req#: C9354-25-0502?language=en&page=682&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Are you a caring, engaging and innovative pharmacist? If so, you could be well suited to this role.

  We are looking to recruit a highly committed band 8a Lead Pharmacist (Mental Health) to be part of the Trust Medicines Management Team working with our urgent care and inpatient services in East Sussex. This post will be based in Hastings to cover urgent care services and providing clinical cover to outlying units like Amberstone and Beechwood.

  You will be offering advice on complex medicines queries along with delivering direct patient care, with the opportunity to become a qualified prescriber embedded within the team.

  We are looking to recruit a pharmacist with mental health experience who is looking to develop their leadership skills.

  This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

  Main duties of the job

  This post presents a great opportunity for an experienced pharmacist motivated by the desire to provide excellent patient care to support the urgent care and inpatient services. You will be working with Specialist Pharmacists, Technicians and Assistants to provide this service.

  The role demands an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to work on their own initiative.

  The team provides a well-structured support system, access to professional training, and excellent opportunity for professional development.

  There is no dispensary commitment with this role.

  About us

  We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.

  Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trust in the UK. The physical health of our mental health patients is important to us and with the live expectancy of patients with serious mental health dying 15 to 20 years earlier, the trust is committed to reducing this risk and pharmacy play a key role in this.

  About us

  As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

  You can expect:

  • Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
  • Excellent supervision programmes.
  • Flexible working opportunities
  • Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
  • A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
  • Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays) pro rata
  • Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

  Details

  Date posted

  15 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata for part time

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Job share, Flexible working

  Reference number

  354-CO-21604-A

  Job locations

  Cavendish House

  Breeds Place

  Hastings

  TN34 3AA

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries please feel free to contact to discuss further, we would be more than happy to chat through the particulars of the role.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries please feel free to contact to discuss further, we would be more than happy to chat through the particulars of the role.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree in Pharmacy at a British School of Pharmacy, or recognised equivalent
  • Clinical Pharmacy post graduate qualification (e.g. certificate or diploma)
  • Registered Member of General Pharmaceutical Council.

  Knowledge, Training and Experience

  Essential

  • To have demonstrable evidence of having met the full gateway KSF for 7 Specialist Pharmacist
  • Experience of working with different healthcare professions and managers across the wider healthcare economy
  • Can demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is likely to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them.
  • Demonstrable expertise in highly relevant field of pharmacy specialism
  • Significant experience of working within a hospital pharmacy department post qualification, including experience in mental health service provision
  • Experience of working with working age mental health services.
  • Excellent clinical pharmacy skills with particular emphasis on medicines used in mental health
  • Experience in providing both written and verbal information on drug usage
  • Experience in carrying out Medicines Information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree in Pharmacy at a British School of Pharmacy, or recognised equivalent
  • Clinical Pharmacy post graduate qualification (e.g. certificate or diploma)
  • Registered Member of General Pharmaceutical Council.

  Knowledge, Training and Experience

  Essential

  • To have demonstrable evidence of having met the full gateway KSF for 7 Specialist Pharmacist
  • Experience of working with different healthcare professions and managers across the wider healthcare economy
  • Can demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is likely to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them.
  • Demonstrable expertise in highly relevant field of pharmacy specialism
  • Significant experience of working within a hospital pharmacy department post qualification, including experience in mental health service provision
  • Experience of working with working age mental health services.
  • Excellent clinical pharmacy skills with particular emphasis on medicines used in mental health
  • Experience in providing both written and verbal information on drug usage
  • Experience in carrying out Medicines Information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Cavendish House

  Breeds Place

  Hastings

  TN34 3AA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Cavendish House

  Breeds Place

  Hastings

  TN34 3AA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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