Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Tower Hamlets | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £64,156 - £71,148 per annum pro-rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2026 |
| Location: | London, E1 4DG |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7851024/363-CP7851024 |
Summary
Advert for Clinical LeadPharmacist Band8a
Are you anenthusiastic, motivated andcommitted pharmacist? If so we would like youto join our mental health pharmacy team. You will need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary teamof nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting.Youwill want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. Youmustbe self- motivated and able to motivate others.
Our dynamic and creative ELFT pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedforshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients.
Youwill lead on the provision of pharmacy services in Tower Hamlets.You will alsoprovide support to the medicines management technicians and pharmacists, provide operational support where required, provide a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and work with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective service to mental health patients in our directorate. This is an onsite based role.
1. To support and coordinate a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to Tower Hamlets.
2. To ensure the provisionofa high quality, responsiveandpatient centered pharmacy service to all patients within the directorate by implementing and monitoring the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards.
3. To attend Tower Hamlets management meetings including clinical risk and inpatient management meeting
4. To represent the Tower Hamlets Directorate at Trust-widemeetings
5. To manage audit and quality improvement projects fortheTower hamlets pharmacy alongside the leadpharmacist
6. To support the clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians in their deliveryofthe clinicalservice.
7. To attend regional clinical pharmacy network groups and network and feedback withinitiatives.
8. To ensure the effective day to day managementofthe Trust Medicines Information service. (this service is currently underreview)
9. To attend and contribute to the Trust Senior Pharmacy Managersmeetings.
10. To attend and contribute to the Trusts medicinescommittee
11. To deputise for the Lead Pharmacist in his or herabsence
12. To undertake operational work
13. To provide an up-to-date medicines information service for Tower Hamlets Mental Health units.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
For information in relation to this advert please feel free to contact Bhavin Karania bhavin.karania1@nhs.net
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Apr 2026