Senior Clinical Pharmacist Antimicrobials | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2026 |
| Location: | Crawley, RH11 7DH |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7949043/150-GM2589-COR-A |
Summary
Are you looking for a rewarding and challenging role with a work-life balance in a job that won't have weekend, on-call or bank holiday working commitments? Are you proactive, flexible, agile in your work approach? If so, we're looking for you to join our well-respected medicines management team to lead on Antimicrobial Stewardship across the Trust and be the Medicines Management lead for allocated areas of responsibility, delivering a specialist clinical pharmacy service to our Intermediate Care Units.
We use Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration (EPMA) within our Intermediate Care Units (training provided). You'll attend multidisciplinary meetings such as our Medicines Safety & Governance Group and work in close partnership with the Trust’s Infection Prevention & Control team, representing the medicines management on other multidisciplinary groups.
We're committed to ensure our pharmacists who wish to gain an independent prescribing qualification are given the opportunity to do so in a fair and equitable way. Full time hours are 37.5 hours per week (general office hours) Flexible working arrangements may be discussed but will require you to work a minimum 22.5 hours per week over 3 days as well as hybrid working and/or split roles within the Trust.
The role involves a regular presence at both Crawley and Brighton General Hospital sites but we're flexible around base with various locations across Sussex including Worthing, Horsham and Lewes.
You will work with other pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and assistants, as well as other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a high quality and effective medicines management service to all our adult inpatient bedded units. You will be involved in the development of pharmacy staff and service to the bedded units. You will work in the pharmacy dispensary regularly to provide senior support.
You will take the lead role within the Medicines Management Team, across the whole of Trust, for the particular areas of Antimicrobial Stewardship, injectables, patient group directions, occupational health and wound-care in accordance with experience, previous knowledge and personal development plan. This may include developing policy and service developments.
You will require excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, together with good clinical skills and knowledge. The ability to travel within the Trust's foot-print is essential.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
The Medicines Management team is ambitious for its service and staff. We are supporting foundation pharmacist trainees and pre-registration pharmacy technicians. We have supported some of our pharmacists to gain a prescribing qualification or management qualifications.
The Medicines Management Team provides input into a range of medicines optimisation services including to Rheumatology, Children and Young People and Pro-active care, Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes, Virtual Wards and this supports developmental and learning as well as progression opportunities.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Apr 2026