University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Chief Pharmacist
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Deputy Chief Pharmacist
As Deputy Chief Pharmacist, you will play a pivotal role in leading, developing, and delivering safe, effective, and innovative pharmacy services across our hospitals. Working closely with the chief pharmacist and pharmacy board, you’ll help drive our new trust strategy in matters related to medicines optimisation, support national priorities, and ensure regulatory compliance.
You’ll lead a diverse team of pharmacy professionals across multiple sites, fostering a culture of inclusion, learning, and excellence. You will also drive innovation and create a culture of continuous improvement. The role involves deputising for the chief pharmacist in representing pharmacy within senior trust and regional networks when needed — influencing policy, service design, and quality improvement.
This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary pharmacy leader who thrives on strategic challenges and wants to make a lasting impact on patient care.
Responsibilities
- Act as the sites’ expert in medicines optimisation, with delegated responsibility from the chief pharmacist.
- Deputise for the chief pharmacist to provide strategic and professional leadership for medicines optimisation services across the trust and to external customers.
- Ensure pharmacy services are patient-centred, safe, progressive, cost-effective, and delivered within agreed budgets by competent staff.
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation in pharmacy services, embedding quality improvement and R&I principles.
- Lead and manage strategic project planning for pharmacy services, assessing resource requirements and potential impact across the trust.
- Positively influence stakeholders to achieve high standards in medicines optimisation across the organisation.
- Lead on business planning, formulating cases of need and submitting bids for procurement of additional resources based on evaluation, research, quotations and established contracts.
- Appraise and evaluate service delivery and role development.
- Represent the pharmacy department at trust committees and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, such as other NHS trusts and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).
- Delegated management of allocated pharmacy budget for RSCH and PRH pharmacy.
- Member of pharmacy board.
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At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Soha Mohamed
- Job title: Chief Pharmacist
- Email address: soha.mohamed1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01273 696955
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