Clinical Pharmacist - Mental Health | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Blackburn, BB2 3HH |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7612131/351-CS2805-CL |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, self-motivated pharmacist to join the Pharmacy and Medicines Management Team as a clinical pharmacist.
The Inpatient Pendleview Unit is a well-established MH unit within the Pennine network and based on the same site as the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
With a total of 87 beds included on male treatment wards, female treatment wards, Old age psychiatry and a male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.
The Pendleview Unit is based on ‘safety by design’ to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the unit 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 to cover maternity leave.
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 in-patient mental health unit. 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
• 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 desirable, however not essential that you have a postgraduate pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience, and post registration experience in mental health.
A qualification as a Non-Medical prescriber would be desirable.
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.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Nov 2025