Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust offers a rewarding role for B6 Rotational Pharmacists, providing opportunities to develop across a variety of clinical settings. The position supports professional growth in both mental and physical health services, with dedicated training and supervision, fostering a commitment to quality patient care and teamwork.

Benefits

Access to personal and professional development opportunities

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacist.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Willing to learn and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to designated wards.
• Provide specialist information and advice to multidisciplinary teams.
• Support out of hours advice only medicines advice service.

Skills

Communication

Organisational

Team-working

Education

Registered Pharmacist

Job description

Mersey Care has a fantastic and highly rewarding opportunity for B6 Rotational Pharmacists to join our friendly and dynamic team working across clinical services.

Its an exciting time to join our Team. Our services have been restructured to support an enhanced service model under a senior leadership team which is fully committed to delivering outstanding services and investing in the development of its workforce.

Our roles provide an unparalleled opportunity to develop skills and experience across a wide range of clinical services including mental health, secure, and physical health inpatient wards. We provide a well-structured support system, including robust individual and group supervision, and access to personal and professional development opportunities.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacist with excellent communication, organisational, and team-working skills to deliver clinical pharmacy services alongside multidisciplinary teams. You will be reliable, willing to learn, able to work on your own initiative and flexible to support the wider team.

Previous hospital pharmacy or mental health experience is not essential. Induction and training will be provided. We welcome applications from newly registered pharmacists keen to work in secondary care or more experienced pharmacists looking for a new challenge or pharmacists seeking to gain experience or grow their expertise in mental and physical health.

Interviews planned for W/C 14 July 2025

This role offers a unique opportunity to undertake rotations across intermediate care physical health wards, inpatient mental health, secure and learning disabilities services.

Successful candidates will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to designated wards, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multi-disciplinary team, to maximise patient pharmaceutical care.

IMPORTANT: The main departmental base is at Maghull Health Park but this post is rotational and regular work-related travel across various Mersey Care sites is required.

The role is mainly clinically focused and includes a requirement to spend at least one session per week in the dispensary to develop and maintain core competencies.

Successful applicants will be expected to support the out of hours advice only medicines advice service at a maximum rota frequency of 1 in 12, including weekend working in the dispensary between 9:30am-13:30pm.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Agatha Munyika Job title: Head of Clinical Pharmacy Services - Mental Health Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07768 073671

Laura Thompson

Clinical Services Lead Pharmacist Inpatient Mental Health Services

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