Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join the SaSH clinical pharmacy team. This role is suitable for a trainee pharmacist due to qualify in July 2025, a pharmacist looking for a career change, or a band 6 pharmacist looking for progression.

Our team has more than 100 staff, half of whom are pharmacists. The successful applicant will rotate through a different clinical specialty every three months, including acute, cardiology, endocrine, elderly, surgery, respiratory, paediatrics, and medicines information. Each speciality has a mini-team, led by a Band 7 pharmacist, is comprised of Band 6 pharmacists and MMTs. The lead pharmacists will support you through each bespoke rotation workbook and specific objectives.

We are a friendly and progressive department with a strong emphasis on training and development, we support our pharmacists to undertake a fully funded three-year clinical diploma including the opportunity to become a prescribing pharmacist.

Progression from a band 6 to a band 7 post is automatic once relevant milestones have been achieved.

The successful candidate should be adaptable to new situations, capable of using their own initiative and patient centred at heart.

For more information take a look at our Pharmacy Recruitment page on the Trust Website https://www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/work-us/pharmacy-recruitment and click on the Hear from our Staff -including an interview with one of our current rotational pharmacists.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities

Working for our organisation

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.