Clinical Pharmacist, Mental Health
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Job summary
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist to join the inpatient team at Chorley District Hospital, Preston. You will contribute to medicines management, participate in ward rounds, and support development of clinical pharmacy services within mental health settings.
Applicants should have a Masters in Pharmacy, UK registration, and a commitment to CPD. The role offers opportunities to access further postgraduate training and a supportive
Qualifications
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (essential)
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (essential)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (essential)
- Good clinical knowledge (essential)
- Awareness of current issues in Pharmacy (essential)
- Variety of clinical pharmacy experience (essential)
- Good written, verbal and communication skills (essential)
- Organisational skills (essential)
Responsibilities
- Pharmaceutical care planning and clinical review of prescriptions
- Involvement in multidisciplinary ward rounds
- Provision of medicines information to service users and staff
- Experience pharmacy practice across inpatient services and community teams
- Support the development of robust medicines management processes
- Develop trainee pharmacy staff
- Deliver the Trust medicines optimisation strategy
- Ensure compliance with GPhC standards for dispensing
- Clinical audit
Skills
Education
Job description
Are you a qualified pharmacist with a passion for mental health pharmacy, or keen to specialise in this rewarding field? Whether you are already working in hospital or mental health settings, or currently in community pharmacy and looking for a new direction to develop your clinical skills, we offer a supportive and dynamic environment to help you grow and thrive. If any of these apply, this role could be the perfect opportunity for you.
We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of both our staff and the service users across the localities we serve. We would love for you to join our compassionate and nurturing Medicines Management Team. Due to promotion of the current postholder, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our highly supportive inpatient team as a Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist. The post is based at Chorley District Hospital, covering a range of mental health wards, including a psychiatric intensive care unit and acute adult mental health wards. The role offers an ideal opportunity for a pharmacist who may wish to enhance their current knowledge base within the mental health field or who is already working at this level. We are a supportive Medicines Management Team and can offer many opportunities for pharmacists to build on their current expertise. We encourage all team members to identify, develop, and feel empowered to improve their skills.
Hospital and/or mental health experience is desirable but not essential, as we offer an award-winning in-house training programme designed to support the successful candidate in developing the necessary skills and confidence for the role. There may also be opportunities to access further development, including the Aston University distance-learning Postgraduate Certificate in Psychiatric Therapeutics (accredited by the College of Mental Health Pharmacy).
- Pharmaceutical care planning and clinical review of prescriptions
- Involvement in multidisciplinary ward rounds
- Provision of medicines information to service users and staff
- Opportunity to experience pharmacy practice across inpatient services and community teams
- Supporting the development of robust medicines management processes
- Developing trainee pharmacy staff
- Actively working to deliver the Trust medicines optimisation strategy
- Ensuring compliance with GPhC standards for dispensing
- Clinical audit
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust has fully implemented electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems across all inpatient settings.
Due to the location of various units, an ability and willingness to travel around Trust locations is required. There is no requirement to work bank holidays or weekends.
For further details / informal visits please contact us using the details provided.
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.
If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Date posted28 September 2026
Agenda for changeBandBand 7Salary 49,387 to 56,515 a year per annum Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number351-CS2953-EBJob locationsChorley and South Ribble HospitalPrestonPR7 1PPUnited KingdomJob description
Job responsibilitiesPlease see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Job responsibilitiesPlease see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
- Qualifications Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of and commitment to Continuing Professional Development
- Knowledge Essential
- Good clinical knowledge
- Awareness of current issues in Pharmacy
- Experience Essential
- Variety of clinical pharmacy experience
- Good written, verbal and communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Qualifications Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of and commitment to Continuing Professional Development
- Knowledge Essential
- Good clinical knowledge
- Awareness of current issues in Pharmacy
- Experience Essential
- Variety of clinical pharmacy experience
- Good written, verbal and communication skills
- Organisational skills
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.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer nameLancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
AddressChorley and South Ribble HospitalPrestonPR7 1PPUnited Kingdom
Employer's website
Employer nameLancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
AddressChorley and South Ribble HospitalPrestonPR7 1PPUnited Kingdom
Employer's website
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