Junior Pharmacist

NHS; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

The Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust is seeking a Band 6 Junior Pharmacist to join their Pharmacy Team at St Martin's Hospital. This role offers an opportunity for professional development and entails clinical service delivery within a supportive multidisciplinary team, focused on patient care in mental health settings.

Benefits

Annual leave starting at 27 days per year

Access to the NHS pension scheme

Eligibility for the Blue Light Card for discounts

Qualifications

• Masters degree required plus 1 year pre-registration training.
• Registered with GPhC.
• Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the mental health unit.
• Support patients with medication advice and optimize treatment.
• Participate in ward visits and multidisciplinary team meetings.

Skills

Good written and verbal communication skills

Good level of interpersonal skills

Good level of analytical skills

Up to date knowledge of prescribing issues in mental health

Self-motivated

Proactive

Education

Masters degree in pharmacy

Registered with GPhC

Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

Go back Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Junior Pharmacist

The closing date is 18 June 2025

What is it like to work for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust? Why not find out and join our Pharmacy Team at St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury, we are seeking a Band 6 Junior Pharmacist, apply now and kickstart your career in the NHS.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our team with the opportunity to progress to a Band 7 Mental Health Pharmacist through individually-tailored developmental support.

During your journey and development within KMPT, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and the key aspects of this clinical post will include attending ward rounds, patient education and counselling, clinical audit and medicines information. You must be able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health problems and be driven to improve their care through medicines management.

• Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank Holiday's.
• Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
• Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online.

Main duties of the job

This role does not require mental health experience and the expectation would be for the candidate to learn and build their experience on the job through formal learning and work-based practice. On-going training and support will be provided by the Lead Education and Training Pharmacist and the local clinical pharmacy team with clinical supervision being provided by one of our experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacists. Further support will be available from the Trust wide pharmacy team if required.

The post holder will be part of a clinical pharmacy team that provides a medicines management service to the inpatient wards. You will also be involved in working with the other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services alongside pharmacy and trust priorities and objectives.

Further details of the role are outlined in the 'detailed job description and main responsibilities' section.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Job responsibilities

The roles and duties of these posts include:

• The development from a band 6 junior pharmacist to a band 7 specialist pharmacist through formal learning and work experience.
• To help with the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the mental health unit, including ward pharmacy visits, multidisciplinary team meetings, consultant reviews in an inpatient setting.
• To support patients and their families by providing advice about the use of medication, optimising treatment, providing information and liaising with acute and other care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care.
• To contribute to good physical health wellbeing of patients by providing expert advice and performing interventions to improve physical health

Please see job description for full details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters degree in pharmacy + 1 year pre-registration training
• Registered with GPhC
• Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent specialist knowledge, acquired through a broad spectrum of clinical pharmacy training and experience

Experience

• Experience of working in mental health services
• Knowledge of Mental Health therapeutics
• Understanding of principals of Clinical Governance
• Able to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary setting

Knowledge and skills

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good level of interpersonal skills so as to effectively exchange complex and sensitive information
• Good level of analytical skills
• Up to date knowledge of prescribing issues in mental health
• Relevant knowledge of pharmaceutical standards of practice
• Self-motivated
• Proactive
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to work on own initiative or as part of a team

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.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust