Pharmacist - Band 7 | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata plus HCAs (HCAs depends on the location) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2026 |
| Location: | Camberwell, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7800556/334-CLI-7800556 |
Summary
A part-time opportunity has arisen to join our established, friendly, and dynamic clinical pharmacy team at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
The required job role is set at Band 7 Senior Clinical Pharmacist Level with mental health experience.
Vacancies are available at the Lambeth Hospital.
As part of our ambitious plans to modernise our buildings and services, Lambeth Hospital will be closing and all our inpatient services will move to a new, high-quality building, called Douglas Bennett House, on the Maudsley site.
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. Once established in post, there are further opportunities for development and career progression in a variety of settings, for example education and training, quality improvement, research, clinical trials, independent prescribing and more.
• To deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the Lambeth Home Treatment Team (LHTT) and Maudsley Hospital in line with Trust policies, procedures, and standards.
• To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines.
• To support the multidisciplinary LHTT and Maudsley inpatient and community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage through medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes, and by providing medicines related training.
• To support the LHTT and Maudsley inpatient units/community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage.
• To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams.
• To act as a practice supervisor in the training and education of trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists.
• To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans.
• To partake in the pharmacy on-call service (Emergency Duty Cover, bank holiday rotas) and a Saturday service at the Maudsley Hospital site.
About the team
The pharmacy department provides dispensing services from the Maudsley, Lambeth, Bethlem Royal hospitals and Ladywell unit and a clinical pharmacy service to 1,000 inpatients and 3,000 community patients. The Medicines Information Centre at the Maudsley is the national centre for information on psychotropics. The department produces the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, now on its 14th Edition, and is the world’s leading pharmacy centre for research in psychiatry, having published over 300 clinical papers in the past 25 years.
The pharmacy is also part of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Academic Group (PSCAG) which incorporates more than 1,800 staff and students and includes staff from all four organisations within King’s Health Partners with the aim to integrate the work across all partner organisations to improve practice, research and healthcare/academic education and training strategy. Our CAG includes a variety of professional groups, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, scientists, healthcare professionals, students and administrative and support staff.
About the location
Lambeth Hospital is based in south London, and is close to a vibrant high street with lots of shops and restaurants. It is within walking distance of Brixton, Clapham North, Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road stations, offering easy transport links to other parts of London. The site offers parking and is not located within the congestion charge zone.
Job Purpose:
• To deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the Lambeth Home Treatment Team (LHTT) and Maudsley Hospital in line with Trust policies, procedures, and standards.
• To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines.
• To support the multidisciplinary LHTT and Maudsley inpatient and community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage through medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes, and by providing medicines related training.
• To support the LHTT and Maudsley inpatient units/community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage.
• To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams.
• To act as a practice supervisor in the training and education of trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists.
• To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans.
• To partake in the pharmacy on-call service (Emergency Duty Cover, bank holiday rotas) and a Saturday service at the Maudsley Hospital site.
Key Responsibilities:
1. To ensure safe and effective use of medicines at Home Treatment Team, ward, community mental health teams, and dispensary level to ensure safe and effective use of medicines. This includes adhering to Trust policies, pharmacy procedures, local and national guidelines, and legal requirements.
2. To be responsible for providing clinical pharmacy input as part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT). This will include providing advice to clinicians on medicines, including the use of unlicensed medicines use and areas of practice where the evidence base is lacking, liaising with the medicines information pharmacists where appropriate.
3. To be responsible for providing a clinical pharmacy service to groups of patients
a. Ensure effective outcomes of treatment with medicines
b. Support the teams to monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines
c. Support patients after discharge from hospital, which may include telephone consultation or face-to-face follow-up appointments where appropriate
d. Undertake medicines-related consultations with patients and carers
e. Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the optimal use of their medicines.
4. To assess medicine regimes both during enquiry answering and/or through referral, providing highly specific advice to other clinical team members on the management of often complex medicine related issues, such as complex drug interactions, high dose antipsychotic prescribing, unlicensed use of medicines etc.
5. To prescribe medicines within their scope of practice and in line with Trust policy if qualified and registered with the GPhC as an independent pharmacist prescriber.
6. To be able to present information in a suitable format (e.g. written and/or verbal) and style for the target audience. Barriers to effective communication may include learning disability, mental impairment, non-consenting/noncompliant patients, and patients detained under the mental health act who may be violent/aggressive.
7. To provide information in a timely manner, to the appropriate individual (in accordance with the degree of urgency of the request or issue identified).
8. To prepare and deliver training for clinical staff (e.g. nurses, support workers, junior doctors) on a wide range of medicines-related issues. To provide clinical supervision to a team of pharmacists as part of a group.
9. To support local implementation of Trust Medicines Management Policies within own clinical area, and ensure medicines are handled safely and securely within designated clinical areas.
10. To record and collect data on patient and service outcomes and report these to relevant committees on a regular basis.
11. To identify and undertake project work in order to make improvements within own clinical area.
12. To participate in and develop quality improvement initiatives, undertake local and national audits, and engage in research and medicines evaluation as required by the Chief Pharmacist
This advert closes on Monday 30 Mar 2026