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Senior Mental Health Pharmacist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Ebrill 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata (subject to confirmation) |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Mai 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Nelson, BB9 9TG |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7164242/351-CS2739-MS |
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Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with a keen interest and previous experience in mental health?
A great opportunity has arisen due to maternity leave. We have an exciting vacancy for a senior clinical pharmacist post in The Community Mental Health Team located at Pendle House, Nelson. This is a well established MH team within the Pennine Locality.
The team is based on ‘safety by design’ to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the team is to provide therapeutic care which is empowering, person-centred and needs led, and focuses on promoting recovery and independence.
We are looking to recruit an experienced mental health pharmacist to join our friendly, innovative and supportive clinical pharmacy team on a fixed term 12 month contract. As the successful candidate you will be responsible for the delivery of a high quality, pro-active and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the community mental health team.
Key components of the role include:
• Clinical review of prescriptions and patient-orientated medication reviews
• Provision of specialist pharmaceutical advice to multi-disciplinary teams
• Involvement of patients in decisions about their medicines to support adherence and improve outcomes
• Potential to utilise non-medical prescribing skills within the role outline
• Opportunity to influence the development of services to improve patient care through service redesign
• Participation in clinical audit and service evaluation
• Supervision of junior pharmacy staff
• Contribution to the training and development of junior pharmacy team members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Participation in the clinical supervision programme
• Input to the development of policies and procedures and treatment guidelines
• Contribute to initiatives to improve medicines safety
You will have current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
It is also desirable, however not essential that you have a postgraduate pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience, and post registration experience in mental health.
The post does not require weekend working or an on-call commitment.
The Pharmacy Service within Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust is a well-established team with a wealth of expertise in both Mental Health and Community services and continues to provide high quality clinical input into all aspects of the health provision delivered by the organisation. We are a supportive team committed to the education and development of our expanding service.
We want to recruit people to the service who share our values and are confident in their ability to contribute to the demonstrated effectiveness and acceptability of our service.
For further information or an informal discussion about the post please contact:
Usman Akram, Interim Network Pharmacy Director, Pennine on 01254 612855 / 07950 870178 or e-mail: usman.akram@lscft.nhs.uk
Please note: This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS Clearance
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 7 May 2025