Lead Pharmacist - Medicine

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive & dynamic individual with an appropriate level of knowledge & skills to join the Pharmacy team at East Surrey Hospital. This post is fixed term for 12 months from March 2025 to cover a maternity leave. The post holder will be part of a team of five lead pharmacists responsible for the Pharmacy service to the Medical Division, each with their own specialist area. This post would specifically be the lead for Cardiology. This post is linked to an existing PE clinic that would be ideal for a qualified independent prescriber. Other duties include medicines expenditure, clinical governance and risk management, as well as enhanced roles in education and training. Our department has over 100 staff of which half are pharmacists, 18 of whom are band 8As. We are a friendly and progressive department with a strong emphasis on training and development. The pharmacy department works closely with Health Education England to deliver the foundation pharmacist training programme, as well as the Universities of Brighton and Medway. Ask us about our links with Guy's and St Thomas' and other local healthcare organisations.

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
• We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.