Advanced Specialist Pharmacist (Forensic and Medicines Safety) | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Greater London seeks an Advanced Specialist Pharmacist to enhance its pharmacy services within mental health care. The role focuses on providing leadership in medicines safety and working closely with various clinical teams. A strong background in pharmacy is essential, alongside responsibilities for managing pharmacy services and compliance with guidelines. The organization fosters development and offers a supportive environment for staff. This position requires flexibility in service delivery across different local sites, ensuring high standards in patient care and safety. This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with experience in mental health.
• Strong understanding of medicines optimization principles.
• Proven leadership skills in managing pharmacy teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide pharmaceutical leadership within forensic mental health services.
• Lead medicines safety initiatives across the trust.
• Develop safer systems of care aligned with national strategies.

Skills

Medicines safety

Leadership

Pharmacy knowledge

Collaboration

Risk management

Education

Pharmacy degree

Registration with relevant pharmacy council

Job description

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an Advanced 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 within North 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 a dynamic, confident, and proactive pharmacist who is passionate about medicines safety and forensic mental health, and who is committed to driving safer, more effective medicines optimisation across our services.

The Advanced Specialist Pharmacist for Forensics and Medicines Safety will provide strong leadership to the pharmacy workforce and ensure effective and safe provision of pharmacy services. They will support the Senior Lead Pharmacists with the operational delivery of the Medicines Safety Programme and Medicines Optimisation Programme for North London Foundation Trust (NLFT) and deputise when required. The Advanced Specialist Pharmacist will also provide a pharmacy service to forensic mental health wards and teams served by NLFT and act as the pharmacy forensic specialist. This includes provision 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 also required.

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.

• To support the Deputy Chief Pharmacist in leading, developing, delivering, and evaluating pharmacy services and medicines optimisation in their allocated area as delegated by the Chief Pharmacist.
• To support the Senior Lead Pharmacist Medicines Safety, Risk and Physical Health in delivering the Trust’s medicines safety programme.
• To be an active member of the Pharmacy team with allocated management responsibilities.
• Provide leadership, maintain and improve standards of clinical pharmacy practice, quality assurance, risk management and other issues of clinical governance related to medicines optimisation.
• To play a leading role in delivering the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
• To hold a Trust-wide leadership position for Medicines Optimisation in Forensic services and maintain a clinical commitment.

This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025.