Mental Health Pharmacist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Preston is seeking a dynamic Mental Health Pharmacist to join its friendly pharmacy team. The successful candidate will provide clinical pharmacy services in an inpatient setting, engaging in medication reviews and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes. This position values diversity and supports flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Completion of 12-month pre-registration.
• Awareness of current issues affecting the practice of pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Provide a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service.
• Conduct clinical reviews of prescriptions.
• Provide specialist pharmaceutical advice to the multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Ability to maintain and develop professional relationships

Good written and verbal skills

Education

Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health Pharmacist

The closing date is 10 December 2025

Are you qualifying as a pharmacist this year?

Are you already a pharmacist but looking to commence a career in hospital pharmacy and wish to work with a small friendly team to achieve the best outcomes for individual service users?

Then we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking Pharmacist to join our small friendly pharmacy team which also has close links to the wider pharmacy department within the organisation. We are passionate about providing a high quality clinical pharmacy service. You would be working within our inpatient setting alongside members of a multi-disciplinary team to support prescribing and offer specialist clinical pharmacy advice. You would be contributing to the recovery pathway of our service users within both medium and low secure forensic wards as well as our step down wards.

The Specialist Mental Health inpatient Service provides assessment, care, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery for 164 service users. The hospital has three speciality service lines:

• Male Secure Mental Health Services
• Women's Secure Mental Health Services
• Male Secure Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Service

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the post holder will be to provide a patient focussed clinical pharmacy service to service users in an inpatient setting. You will be expected to provide a high level of pharmaceutical care to service users as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team and participate in regular ward reviews with the support of the senior pharmacist.

Key components of the role include:

• Clinical review of prescriptions and patient-orientated medication review
• Provision of specialist pharmaceutical advice to multi-disciplinary team
• Involvement of patients in decisions about their medicines to support adherence and improve outcomes
• Opportunity to influence the development of services to improve patient care through service redesign
• Participation in clinical audit and service evaluation
• Contribution to the training and development of junior pharmacy team members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Participation in the clinical supervision programme

About us

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.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so 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.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Commitment to continuing professional development

Experience

• Completion of 12-month pre-registration
• Awareness of current issues affecting the practice of pharmacy

Skills

• Ability to maintain and develop professional relationships
• Good written and verbal skills

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.

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust