Nuffield Health

Pharmacy Manager

The closing date is 31 October 2025

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Job summary

Job Description Pharmacy Manager Brighton Hospital | Permanent | Full Time Up to £65,000 per annum dependent on experience 37.5 hours per week

Main duties of the job

Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost effective and legal and are supported by up-to-date policies, procedures and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis. Provide expert clinical input into oncology treatment pathways and medicines optimisation. Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership. As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up to date policies, guidelines and systems of work. Undertake regular audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team. Ensuring the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions and contra-indications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines etc. Assist and leading the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge and in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.

About us

Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital At Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital, we work with leading medical Consultants to provide first-class treatments and high standards of care for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of medical and surgical conditions using the latest facilities and technology. We take pride in delivering high standards of patient care to both private patients and the NHS. Our facilities include 44 purpose built en-suite rooms, three operating theatres and an endoscopy theatre. Other facilities include physiotherapy, health screening, diagnostics and a dental suite. We are located in Woodingdean, on the east side of Brighton with easy access by rail and road, including free parking

Details

Date posted

03 October 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£60,000 to £65,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

JR0091511

Job locations

Warren Road Brighton East Sussex BN2 6DX

Brighton

BN2 6DX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Pharmacy Manager Brighton Hospital | Permanent | Full Time Up to £65,000 per annum dependent on experience 37.5 hours per week At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it's driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want - we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you. Our Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital are seeking an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Manager to lead our pharmacy services with a specialist focus on oncology. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care and advancing oncology pharmacy practice. Duties will include ensuring adherence to medicines optimisation policies and procedures, providing oversight of pharmaceutical stock procurement, as well as other associated pharmaceutical duties and have a key role in delivering high quality clinical care and advice to our patients and teams across a range of departments including, Oncology, Pre-assessment clinic, Outpatient Department, Ward and Theatres. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills; have the ability to work under pressure and influence others whilst always maintaining a professional attitude. As a Pharmacy Manager it is important that you will be confident to work independently as well as a member of our larger health professional community, leading a team to always strive to improve the quality of our services for our patients. As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

  • Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost effective and legal and are supported by up-to-date policies, procedures and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
  • Provide expert clinical input into oncology treatment pathways and medicines optimisation.
  • Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
  • As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up to date policies, guidelines and systems of work. Undertake regular audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
  • Ensuring the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions and contra-indications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines etc.
  • Assist and leading the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge and in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.
  • Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
  • Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
  • Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
  • Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training upon request.
    • As a Pharmacy Manager, you will have:
  • Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • Significant oncology pharmacy experience (hospital or specialist setting)
  • Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or oncology. (is this essential?)
  • Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
  • Leadership / managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.
  • An awareness and knowledge of Oncology Pharmacy.
  • Share evidence based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.
  • The ability to make decisions and use your initiative.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding and what can be emotionally challenging environment.
    • Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post. It starts with you.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Pharmacy Manager Brighton Hospital | Permanent | Full Time Up to £65,000 per annum dependent on experience 37.5 hours per week At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it's driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want - we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you. Our Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital are seeking an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Manager to lead our pharmacy services with a specialist focus on oncology. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care and advancing oncology pharmacy practice. Duties will include ensuring adherence to medicines optimisation policies and procedures, providing oversight of pharmaceutical stock procurement, as well as other associated pharmaceutical duties and have a key role in delivering high quality clinical care and advice to our patients and teams across a range of departments including, Oncology, Pre-assessment clinic, Outpatient Department, Ward and Theatres. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills; have the ability to work under pressure and influence others whilst always maintaining a professional attitude. As a Pharmacy Manager it is important that you will be confident to work independently as well as a member of our larger health professional community, leading a team to always strive to improve the quality of our services for our patients. As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

  • Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost effective and legal and are supported by up-to-date policies, procedures and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
  • Provide expert clinical input into oncology treatment pathways and medicines optimisation.
  • Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
  • As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up to date policies, guidelines and systems of work. Undertake regular audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
  • Ensuring the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions and contra-indications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines etc.
  • Assist and leading the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge and in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.
  • Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
  • Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
  • Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
  • Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training upon request.
    • As a Pharmacy Manager, you will have:
  • Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • Significant oncology pharmacy experience (hospital or specialist setting)
  • Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or oncology. (is this essential?)
  • Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
  • Leadership / managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.
  • An awareness and knowledge of Oncology Pharmacy.
  • Share evidence based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.
  • The ability to make decisions and use your initiative.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding and what can be emotionally challenging environment.
    • Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post. It starts with you.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

    • Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
    • Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or oncology.

    Experience

    Essential

    • Significant oncology pharmacy experience (hospital or specialist setting)
    • Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

    • Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
    • Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or oncology.

    Experience

    Essential

    • Significant oncology pharmacy experience (hospital or specialist setting)
    • Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.

    Disclosure and Barring Service Check

    This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

    Additional information

    Disclosure and Barring Service Check

    This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

    Employer details

    Employer name

    Nuffield Health

    Address

    Warren Road Brighton East Sussex BN2 6DX

    Brighton

    BN2 6DX


    Employer's website

    https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)

    Employer details

    Employer name

    Nuffield Health

    Address

    Warren Road Brighton East Sussex BN2 6DX

    Brighton

    BN2 6DX


    Employer's website

    https://www.nuffieldhealthcareers.com (Opens in a new tab)

    Employer contact details

    For questions about the job, contact:

    Talent Acquisition

    People Services

    peopleservices@nuffieldhealth.com

    03001235080

    Details

    Date posted

    03 October 2025

    Pay scheme

    Other

    Salary

    £60,000 to £65,000 a year

    Contract

    Permanent

    Working pattern

    Full-time

    Reference number

    JR0091511

    Job locations

    Warren Road Brighton East Sussex BN2 6DX

    Brighton

    BN2 6DX


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