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Overview
Opportunities has arisen for a Lead Advanced Pharmacist – Women’s Services to join the Pharmacy team at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. This is a new role for the Trust, developed to strengthen specialist pharmacy leadership and governance across Women’s Services.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, delivery, development and governance of Women’s Services pharmacy provision, ensuring safe, effective and equitable use of medicines for women, pregnant people and neonates.
- Provide expert pharmacy input across maternity, gynaecology, maternal medicine and neonatal interfaces, working across designated hospital sites within the Trust.
- Establish and lead a specialist pharmacy role for Women’s Services, providing senior clinical leadership and acting as expert for medicines optimisation in maternity, gynaecology, maternal medicine and neonatal interfaces.
- Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input across hospital sites, ensuring consistent pharmacy provision and cross-site working.
- Work as an independent prescriber, initiating, reviewing and optimising medicines within scope of practice, including high risk, unlicensed and specialist therapies in pregnancy, postnatal, breastfeeding and neonatal care.
- Lead medicines governance for Women’s Services including prescribing verification, medicines reconciliation, incidents, audit and risk management.
- Develop and implement clinical guidelines, protocols and pathways for medicines use across Women’s Services, aligned with national guidance.
- Provide expert advice and leadership to MDTs including obstetric, gynaecology, maternal medicine, anaesthetic, midwifery and neonatal teams.
- Lead service development and quality improvement using prescribing data and incident learning.
- Support and develop pharmacy staff through supervision, education and workforce development.
- Work with internal/external partners including primary care, community pharmacy, LMNS and commissioners.
- Provide medicines optimisation and financial oversight including high cost medicines and budget monitoring.
- Deputise for senior pharmacy colleagues to support service resilience.
Qualifications and requirements
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (or equivalent) and relevant postgraduate qualifications in pharmacy.
- Experience in Women’s Services, maternity, obstetrics or neonatal pharmacy and leadership roles.
- Independent prescribing qualification and ability to practice as an independent prescriber.
- Strong governance, prescribing data analysis, and quality improvement capabilities.
Company: University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
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Job Description:
Overview
Opportunities has arisen for a Lead Advanced Pharmacist – Women’s Services to join the Pharmacy team at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. This is a new role for the Trust, developed to strengthen specialist pharmacy leadership and governance across Women’s Services.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, delivery, development and governance of Women’s Services pharmacy provision, ensuring safe, effective and equitable use of medicines for women, pregnant people and neonates.
- Provide expert pharmacy input across maternity, gynaecology, maternal medicine and neonatal interfaces, working across designated hospital sites within the Trust.
- Establish and lead a specialist pharmacy role for Women’s Services, providing senior clinical leadership and acting as expert for medicines optimisation in maternity, gynaecology, maternal medicine and neonatal interfaces.
- Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input across hospital sites, ensuring consistent pharmacy provision and cross-site working.
- Work as an independent prescriber, initiating, reviewing and optimising medicines within scope of practice, including high risk, unlicensed and specialist therapies in pregnancy, postnatal, breastfeeding and neonatal care.
- Lead medicines governance for Women’s Services including prescribing verification, medicines reconciliation, incidents, audit and risk management.
- Develop and implement clinical guidelines, protocols and pathways for medicines use across Women’s Services, aligned with national guidance.
- Provide expert advice and leadership to MDTs including obstetric, gynaecology, maternal medicine, anaesthetic, midwifery and neonatal teams.
- Lead service development and quality improvement using prescribing data and incident learning.
- Support and develop pharmacy staff through supervision, education and workforce development.
- Work with internal/external partners including primary care, community pharmacy, LMNS and commissioners.
- Provide medicines optimisation and financial oversight including high cost medicines and budget monitoring.
- Deputise for senior pharmacy colleagues to support service resilience.
Qualifications and requirements
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (or equivalent) and relevant postgraduate qualifications in pharmacy.
- Experience in Women’s Services, maternity, obstetrics or neonatal pharmacy and leadership roles.
- Independent prescribing qualification and ability to practice as an independent prescriber.
- Strong governance, prescribing data analysis, and quality improvement capabilities.
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Posted: April 29th, 2026