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Clinical Pharmacist, Mental Health – Band 7
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 November 2025 |
| Location: | Gloucester, GL1 3NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9318-25-0904 |
Summary
The post holder will be part of the specialist mental health pharmacy team delivering comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients under the care of GHC and to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for their care. Clinical Pharmacy Services to Inpatient Wards and Community Mental Health Teams Be responsible and accountable for providing a clinical pharmacy service to allocated inpatient wards and community teams: - Ensure that designated ward and team bases are visited by a pharmacist at agreed intervals. - Regularly attend and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings. - Proactively review, rationalise and optimise patients medications. - Review all prescriptions regularly, ensuring adherence to legislation, national and local guidelines and formularies. - Advise on individual drug treatments, including possible adverse effects and interactions. - Undertake medicines reconciliation assurance in conjunction with the medicines management technicians. - Deal with and report medication incidents. - Work to improve patients concordance with medication. - Provide information to staff, patients and their representatives, including individual counselling on newly prescribed medicines and discharge counselling. - Produce comprehensive patient medication histories as needed. Maintain appropriate clinical documentation and records, including intervention/contribution monitoring and outcome data. Advise prescribers and other healthcare professionals on clinical pharmacy issues, answer queries and solve complex problems. Work across traditional boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team. Deal with medicines information queries from patients, medical and other healthcare professionals, using a wide range of information sources both electronic and hard copy regarding drug-related queries. Provide advice to clinicians on unlicensed medicines use and areas of practice where the evidence base is lacking and medical opinion may differ. Responsibility for periodically checking controlled drug stocks on wards and outside units as per trust-wide audit criteria. Please see link to job description and person specification for more detail.