Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-1121-25-CS
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highbury Hospital
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £109,179 - £125,637 Per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Chief Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 9
We fully support the use of AI and other tools to assist in writing your application. However, it's essential that the content, especially your supporting statement, is personalised and factually accurate. Your application should reflect your genuine experiences and qualifications to ensure authenticity and credibility
Job overview
We are seeking a dedicated, inclusive and innovative Chief Pharmacist who would like to further their career within Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
As one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire, we provide care to more than two million people a year. We employ over 10,000 colleagues, providing intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services, delivered from over 257 locations within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
Main duties of the job
You will be an excellent communicator who is a skilled, visible leader who has the experience to develop the strategic vision for pharmacy services and ensure its implementation across the Trust. You will be responsible for the safe, secure, and effective provision, management and strategic direction of all aspects of pharmacy and medicines management services across the Trust, delivering high quality pharmaceutical service to patients and staff.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will provide clinical and professional leadership, quality and risk management and lead the strategic development of the service as well as ensuring maintenance of a research and development framework. You will ensure that the Trust's Pharmacy services are progressive and responsive to internal and external demand, patient focused, safe, efficient, effective and well-led.
You will be the expert voice on pharmacy matters to the Executive Board; responsible for the oversight and governance of medicines, including the development, implementation and maintenance of a medicine’s optimisation strategy.
Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in pharmacy.
- Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Postgraduate qualification in Management or Leadership to Masters level or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP) member.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of the interpretation of national policy and local implications thereof.
- Experience of policy development and implementation.
- Experience of effective leadership of a service and service provision, including staff management and associated human resources processes.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation and medicines management including budget setting.
- Knowledge of controlled drugs and medicines legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management/leadership.
- Knowledge of mental health and community health prescribing issues in primary and secondary care.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of pharmacy and EPMA systems.
- Knowledge of antimicrobial stewardship.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills, presentation skills and written communication skills
- Ability to gain the confidence and credibility of a range of professionals, service users and carers.
- Ability to motivate self and others to encourage collaborative working to improve performance.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sue Elcock
- Job title
- Executive Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0115 969 1300
- Additional information
Dr Anna Hiley
Deputy Medical Director
0115 969 1300
List jobs with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Health Science Services or all sectors