Advanced Specialist Pharmacist

West London NHS Trust; Ealing; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in England is looking for an Advanced Specialist Pharmacist to join their forensic services team. You will provide patient-centered pharmaceutical care and collaborate with healthcare professionals to optimize medication use. A Master's degree in pharmacy is required, along with clinical experience in mental health. This role offers a competitive salary of £61,631 to £68,623 per annum.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Master's degree in pharmacy.
• Experience working as a clinical pharmacist in a hospital setting is essential.
• Strong knowledge of mental health pharmacy and its standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver expert pharmaceutical care to patients with complex mental health needs.
• Support safe and effective medicines optimisation.
• Conduct medicines reconciliation and support policy development.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy practice

Mental health expertise

Patient education

Leadership

Education

Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent

Post-graduate qualification in clinical/mental health pharmacy

Job description

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Advanced Specialist Pharmacist to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team within the West London Forensic Services (WLFS). This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified pharmacist with a specialist interest in mental health, particularly in secure settings, to contribute to high-quality, patient-centred care.

Working across our medium and low secure units, you will play a key role in delivering expert pharmaceutical care to patients with complex mental health needs, often with co-occurring conditions. You will work closely with the ward medical team and other allied health professionals to support safe and effective medicines optimisation in line with current guidelines and legislation.

Main duties of the job

This 12 month fixed-term post offers a unique chance to work in a specialist forensic environment where your expertise will directly impact patient recovery and rehabilitation. Your responsibilities will include medicines reconciliation, clinical ward reviews, supporting clozapine and depot antipsychotic monitoring, and contributing to multidisciplinary reviews. You will also support audit, education, and policy development across the service.

Previous experience in mental health pharmacy is essential, and ideally, you will hold or be working towards a post-graduate qualification. Support for professional development is available, and you will be joining a forward-thinking team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

If you are passionate about making a difference in forensic mental health care and want to work in a role where your clinical skills and leadership can thrive, we would love to hear from you.

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-graduate qualification in clinical/mental health pharmacy or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
• Member of the CMHP
• Membership of RPSGB

Experience

• One year pre-registration training and experience
• Demonstrable advanced experience of working as a clinical pharmacist practitioner in a hospital setting
• Experience as an advanced level clinical pharmacist practitioner in Mental Health
• Experience of delivering training and education
• Experience of developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating protocols and guidelines
• Experience of providing medicines education to users and carers
• Previous experience in undertaking research
• Experience of staff management
• Experience of managing change

Experience Knowledge & Skills

• Up-to-date and in-depth knowledge of new drugs in pipeline or on the market
• Knowledge of medication safety practice recommendations and guidance
• Knowledge of relevant pharmaceutical standards of practice
• Specialist knowledge of mental health pharmacy
• Knowledge of recent initiatives in pharmacy
• Knowledge of the clinical governance agenda in relation to medicines use
• Knowledge of our business and how it supports patient care
• Ability to educate, train, supervise and evaluate pharmacy staff and other health care professionals
• Ability to demonstrate safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs for patients with mental health problems
• Ability to proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
• Ability to evaluate performance against identified criteria using Trust PDR tools
• Ability to provide evaluated pharmaceutical and financial information
• Ability to demonstrate a critical approach to the development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services
• Ability to establish recording systems and to provide necessary reports
• Basic IT skills
• Critical appraisal skills
• Ability to demonstrable innovation and work across professional boundaries
• Report writing skills
• Ability to promote a culture of innovation and learning
• Knowledge of measurement for improvement

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £61,631 to £68,623 per annum inclusive