Senior pharmacist (Research and Development)inSheffieldinSheffieldPUBLISHED TUE 18 MAR 2025
Opportunity to lead and influence pharmacy practices in innovative clinical trials.
Engagement in meaningful work that directly impacts mental health and wellbeing in the community.
Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, including researchers and medical colleagues, fostering professional growth and networking.
Contribution to the development and assessment of cutting-edge medicines and treatment protocols.
Involvement in a growing research environment with new opportunities for career advancement.
Flexibility of a part-time role, allowing for a better work-life balance.
Participation in local and regional pharmacy research networks, enhancing professional learning and development.
Join an inspiring team at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, where your passion for mental health and research can truly make a difference. We're seeking a dedicated *Pharmacy Lead for Research and Development* to drive innovation and improve the wellbeing of our service users. This part-time role offers a unique opportunity to blend your pharmaceutical expertise with impactful clinical research. You'll be a key player, supporting our expanding Research and Development team, facilitating partnerships with trial sponsors and clinical research organisations (CROs), and paving the way for groundbreaking clinical trials that enhance patient care.
In this role, you’ll take the lead on the pharmacy aspects of clinical trials, ensuring they're executed to the highest standards of safety and effectiveness. Collaborating closely with medical and research colleagues, you'll help identify research priorities and assess the feasibility of new trials, all while championing the safe use of medicines throughout the Trust. If you're ready to embrace this meaningful challenge and be part of a vibrant culture dedicated to continuous improvement, we want to hear from you! Your expertise could be the key to transforming care for countless individuals in our community.
In this role, you’ll take the lead on the pharmacy aspects of clinical trials, ensuring they're executed to the highest standards of safety and effectiveness. Collaborating closely with medical and research colleagues, you'll help identify research priorities and assess the feasibility of new trials, all while championing the safe use of medicines throughout the Trust. If you're ready to embrace this meaningful challenge and be part of a vibrant culture dedicated to continuous improvement, we want to hear from you! Your expertise could be the key to transforming care for countless individuals in our community.
Opportunity to lead and influence pharmacy practices in innovative clinical trials.
Engagement in meaningful work that directly impacts mental health and wellbeing in the community.
Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, including researchers and medical colleagues, fostering professional growth and networking.
Contribution to the development and assessment of cutting-edge medicines and treatment protocols.
Involvement in a growing research environment with new opportunities for career advancement.
Flexibility of a part-time role, allowing for a better work-life balance.
Participation in local and regional pharmacy research networks, enhancing professional learning and development.
If you have a passion for mental health and research, this is the role for you. SHSC strives to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people who use ourservices and to always provide the best evidenced based care that we can. We aim to create a vibrant, engaged, improvement focused culture in which we usethe best, and most up-to-date evidence to achieve the best outcomes for our serviceusers.
We have an exciting new role in the team -Pharmacy Lead for Research and Development. It is a part time role. You will be the lead in the pharmacy team in supporting the Research and Development team. The Research and Development team has been growing, and exciting new opportunities for the staff to be involved in clinical trials are arising .
Pharmacy Lead responsible on Research and Development of clinical trials.
- Be first point of pharmacy contact for research trial sponsors and CROs
- Lead and facilitate pharmacy aspects of Pre-site selection visits, Site Initiation visits, monitoring and close out visits.
- Oversight and management of pharmacy related clinical trials income
- Working with RDU and medical colleagues to identify areas of research priorities in respect of Clinical Trials of Investigational Medicinal Products (CTIMPs) and other related trials.
- Contribute to the assessment and feasibility of delivery of clinical trials within SHSC (where applicable)
- Attend local / regional pharmacy research networks.
About us
- As part of the pharmacy service, to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines throughout the Trust.
- Supporting the Chief Pharmacist in ensuring that effective medicines systems operate throughout the Trust.
- To be the pharmacy lead responsible for research and development of clinical trials.
- Reviewing the feasibility of proposed clinical trials considering the pharmacy aspect. Oversight of expenditure and reimbursement for the pharmacy team for clinical trials (Research and Development (R&D)).
- As a clinical pharmacist within the trials team, the post-holder will ensure that all pharmaceutical aspects of clinical trials validation including digital systems are built in accordance with good clinical practice (GCP); good manufacturing practice (GMP); statutory national and international standards; and clinical need.
- Support the coordination of local response in a timely manner, working closely with the: clinical and research teams; Pharmacy; Sponsors; and R&D department.
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