Advanced to Senior Pharmacist- Mental health | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 07 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 06 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Longridge, FY4 4FE |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7404095/351-CEN2291-RA |
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Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with experience in mental health and wish to work with a small friendly team to achieve the best outcomes for individual service users? Then we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for a dynamic Band 8a Senior Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist to join our small friendly pharmacy team which also has close links to the wider pharmacy department within the organisation. We are passionate about providing a high quality clinical pharmacy service. You would be working within our inpatient setting alongside members of a multi-disciplinary team to support prescribing and offer specialist clinical pharmacy advice. You would be contributing to the recovery pathway of our service users within both medium and low secure forensic wards as well as our step down wards.
The Specialist Mental Health inpatient Service provides assessment, care, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery for 164 service users. The hospital has three speciality service lines:
Male Secure Mental Health Services
Women’s Secure Mental Health Services
Male Secure Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Service
The main duties of the post holder will be to provide a patient focussed clinical pharmacy service to service users in an inpatient setting. You will be expected to provide a high level of pharmaceutical care to service users as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team and participate in regular ward reviews. The advanced post would also involve actively supporting the education and training of junior pharmacist, pre-registration pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other healthcare professionals.
Key components of the role include:
Clinical review of prescriptions and patient-orientated medication review
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
Line management 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
Participate within service governance meetings
Provide medication support to the community forensic mental health team
As a trust we embrace digital solutions and have electronic prescribing embedded within our inpatient services. We have introduced automated medicines cabinets to our medium and low secure wards which supports the team in managing medicines on site. You would have the opportunity to become a system administrator for the automated medicine cabinet’s allowing you to develop skills in digital developments. We strive to introduce sustainable solutions to support the NHS ambition to achieve net zero. Your ideas for innovation and service development would be encouraged.
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.
Please refer to the person specification and job description attached
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Aug 2025