Pharmacy Service Clinical Lead – Mental Health

Integrated Care System; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization as a Pharmacy Service Clinical Lead focused on mental health. This role involves managing pharmacist teams, optimizing medication practices, and driving service transformation within a multi-award-winning team. You will contribute to improving patient outcomes through innovation and compassion, backed by strong support for your career development.

Benefits

Generous relocation package

Career development support

Flexible working options

Generous annual leave

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support

Free parking at all trust sites

Free flu vaccinations

Citizens Advice support with hardship fund

Qualifications

• Substantial experience post-registration in pharmacy.
• Knowledge of mental health prescribing issues in primary and secondary care.

Responsibilities

• Manage band 8a pharmacists in delivering clinical services.
• Support the delivery of clinical pharmacy across hospital and community services.
• Monitor, analyse, and provide advice on medicines related data.

Skills

Mental Health Prescribing Knowledge

Leadership

Clinical Services Management

Education

Post graduate diploma in clinical/community pharmacy

Post graduate certificate in psychiatric therapeutics

Job description

Go back Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Pharmacy Service Clinical Lead – Mental Health

The closing date is 01 August 2025

Are you looking for a new challenge? Want to be part of an innovative transforming and forward-thinking team?

We can offer a generous relocation package of up to £8000 subject to terms and conditions.

Support to undertake a Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Professional Doctorate in mental health.

We are a multi-award-winning team with a strong focus on supporting individuals to achieve their full potential. This is an exciting time to join us as we are in the process of successfully deploying EMIS Electronic Prescribing Medicines Administration (EPMA) system.

We are looking for an experienced, ambitious and forward-thinking individual who has experience in hospital pharmacy to help shape and drive patient care and innovation across mental health services.

You will support the delivery of clinical pharmacy service provision across hospital and community services ensuring that clinical service provision is optimised. You will ideally have postgraduate qualifications or experience in mental health therapeutics.

It is expected that the successful applicant will be an experienced clinical pharmacist with a substantial track record of providing or supporting service transformation.

Main duties of the job

• Manage band 8a pharmacists across the corporate team, to deliver clinical services and medicines optimisation, including audit and monitoring.
• The post holder will assist with partnership working with community, hospital pharmacy and primary care networks to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
• Monitor, analyse, interpret and provide advice on medicines related data, clinical audit and incident reports e.g. ePACT data etc, and arrange for cascade to managers and staff as appropriate.
• Support services to fulfil the medicines optimisation requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), including developing and reviewing standard operating procedures (SOPs), medicine guidelines / protocols and clinical guidelines, in conjunction with the Governance & Community Pharmacist.
• Work with the Deputy Director of Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation - Mental Health, to develop the service's annual business plan, training plan and leads and supports medium-long term planning in order to meet financial or performance targets, e.g. CIP and national standards.
• Responsible for systems to ensure the safe and legal handling of medicines.
• Works closely with direct reports to provide robust systems and processes to influence evidence-based and best-value prescribing.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

Before applying for this challenging and rewarding role we encourage you to view the full job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post graduate diploma in clinical/community pharmacy or equivalent experience
• Post graduate certificate in psychiatric therapeutics or equivalent

Experience

• Substantial experience post registration
• Knowledge of mental health prescribing issues in primary and secondary care
• setting up new services

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust