Advanced Specialist Pharmacist (Forensic and Medicines Safety) | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £61,631 - £68,623 Per Annum including HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 31 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Enfield, EN2 8JL |
| Cwmni: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7620219/455-NLFT-0499 |
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We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for anAdvanced Specialist Pharmacist to play a key role within our expanding pharmacy service. This post sits at the heart of medicines safety, and our specialist forensic pathways, supporting some of the most complex and rewarding areas of mental health care withinNorth London NHS Foundation Trust.
As we continue our trust-wide transformation programme, we are strengthening our approach to medicines safety, governance, and digital innovation. In this specialist role, you will have the opportunity to:
• Provide expert pharmaceutical leadership within forensic mental health services;
• Lead and support medicines safety initiatives trust-wide, ensuring high standards of governance and learning;
• Contribute to the development of safer systems of care, aligned with national strategy and the NHS Long Term Plan;
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, consultants, operational leaders, and quality improvement groups;
• Influence policy, clinical pathways, and risk management related to medicines use;
• Advance your specialist expertise within a supportive, forward-thinking environment.
We are a friendly, inclusive, and motivated pharmacy team working across multiple sites. We are seeking adynamic,confident, andproactivepharmacist who is passionate about medicines safety and forensic mental health, and who is committed to driving safer, more effective medicines optimisation across our services.
TheAdvanced SpecialistPharmacistfor Forensics and Medicines Safetywill provide strong leadership to the pharmacy workforce and ensure effective and safeprovisionof pharmacy services.They willsupporttheSeniorLeadPharmacistswith theoperational delivery of the MedicinesSafety Programmeand Medicines Optimisation Programmefor NorthLondonFoundationTrust (NLFT)anddeputisewhenrequired. TheAdvanced Specialist Pharmacistwill alsoprovide a pharmacy service toforensicmental health wards and teams served by NLFTand act as thepharmacy forensic specialist. Thisincludesprovision of clinical pharmacy services, medicines information, patient counselling,and ensuring compliance with trust policies and guidelines as well as Medicines legislation. The role also requires management and supervision of team members. Attendance at trust wide meetings and reporting through local clinical governance structures is alsorequired.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
• Tosupport theDeputyChief Pharmacistinleading, developing, delivering,and evaluatingpharmacy services and medicinesoptimisationin theirallocatedareaas delegated by the Chief Pharmacist.
• To support theSenior Lead Pharmacist Medicines Safety, Risk and Physical Healthindelivering the Trust’s medicines safetyprogramme.
• To be an active member of thePharmacy team withallocatedmanagementresponsibilities.
• Provide leadership,maintainand improve standards of clinical pharmacy practice, quality assurance, riskmanagementand other issues of clinical governance related to medicines optimisation.
• To play a leading role indelivering the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
• To hold aTrustwideleadership position for Medicines OptimisationinForensicservices andmaintaina clinical commitment.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025