Community Mental Health Pharmacist

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Community Mental Health Pharmacist to contribute to a high-quality clinical pharmacy service in Coventry. This role offers a great work/life balance with no weekend or on-call work required. The successful candidate will be part of a respected Medicines Management team focused on patient-centered care and service innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in working within secondary care.
• Ability to adapt and contribute to patient care.
• Must have independent means of transport.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality clinical pharmacy services.
• Participate in local audit work and clinical activity data collection.
• Support medicines management staff and healthcare professionals.

Skills

Pharmaceutical knowledge

Patient care

Medicines management

Education

Masters Pharmacy degree or equivalent

Current registration with The Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Specialist clinical post-graduate qualification

Independent Prescribing qualification

Job description

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Community Mental Health Pharmacist

The closing date is 15 June 2025

Clinical Pharmacist: Community Mental Health - Band 8a

Are you looking for an innovative role, whilst also maintaining a good work/life balance, with no weekend working or on-call work required? An opportunity to work within a caring organisation? Look no further!

The primary role of this specialist post is to contribute to the provision of a comprehensive, high quality clinical pharmacy service to clinical teams within the Coventry and Warwickshire area. You will work as part of a well-established and respected Medicines Management team, whose focus is to develop innovative, patient-centred services and roles . No dispensary work is involved.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

To actively contribute to and participate in the provision of Safe, High Quality, Timely, Patient Facing Clinical Pharmacy Services within the Partnership Trust, as part of the Trust's Medicines Management Team

To participate as an active member of specific ward/unit/clinical teams, and support medicines management staff in their roles and other healthcare professionals

To provide expert pharmaceutical and clinical advice on all medicines and pharmaceutical related matters

To develop and participate in the delivery of education and training sessions to patients/carers and other healthcare staff

To support the implementation of the Medicines Optimisation strategy as part of the Medicines Management Team

To participate in local audit work and the collection of clinical activity data to support service developments

About us

Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership trust received an overall rating of Good by the CQC. The CQC rated the Trust for having well-led, caring, responsive and effective mental health, learning disability and community health services.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.

Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

You will have experience in working within secondary care and be a forward thinking individual who has the ability to adapt, change, and contribute to excellent patient care.

You must have an independent means of transport to travel around the Trusts geographic area and also to work flexibly to meets the needs of the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters Pharmacy degree, or equivalent
• Current and continued registration and membership with The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (practising member)
• Specialist clinical post-graduate qualification (eg. Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy or Clinical Pharmacy or willingness to work towards a qualification)
• Independent Prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Knowledge and skills

• A broad technical and pharmaceutical knowledge relating to the promotion of high quality, effective and cost effective use of medicines
• Must have a sound knowledge of pharmacy processes

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.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust