Senior Clinical Pharmacist Community Mental Health | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 PA pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 September 2025 |
| Location: | Ashton-under-Lyne / Bury / Rochdale, OL6 7SR |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7388874/311-M237-25 |
Summary
We have an excellent opportunity for a 3 senior mental health pharmacists to join our expanding community mental health offer. One of the roles is based within the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside and the other two within the Living Well & Access Teams Bury and Rochdale. You will work with the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness. Within Living Well & Access Teams the post-holder will act as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within your borough. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.
To deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or to provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across your borough.
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.
To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the CMHT . Living Well Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.
To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway within the Living Well service and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.
To provide training to the CMHT / Living Well Team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.
To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management
To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.
You will work within a multi-disciplinary CMHT or Living Well & Access Team within your borough . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services. You will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment
You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or depending on post you will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Bury or Rochdale; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025