Senior Clinical Pharmacist Low Secure Services

Pennine Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a pharmacist to join the Rehabilitation and High Support service in Rochdale. You will play a key MDT role delivering expert mental health medicines advice with no dispensary or out-of-hours commitment.

The role focuses on clinical governance, medicines management, and collaboration with medical and nursing staff to ensure safe, effective care for long-stay patients.

Qualifications

• Current GPhC registration and lifelong learning commitment.
• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in clinical pharmacy within mental health settings.
• Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or Prescribing Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Provide and develop clinical pharmacy service for Low Secure services.
• Ensure services meet national standards for pharmaceutical care.
• Implement developments and disseminate learning trust-wide.
• Ensure medicines management through collaboration with medical and nursing staff.
• Collaborate with SLA and other staff to supply medications to wards.
• Work with Service Directors on medicines management issues.
• Provide cover for other pharmacists as required.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy

Mental health

Change management

Guidelines development

Staff training

In-patient services

Education

Master's degree in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

CPD commitment

Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

Prescribing Sciences

Job description

Job summary

We have an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist to join our Rehabilitation and High Support service. You will work within the Low Secure units primarily at Birch Hill Hospital but also at the Tameside site, acting as a key contributor within the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness. You will be embedded within the MDT as well as part of a friendly pharmacy team within the Trust. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for a clinical role within a friendly and forward thinking team.

Main duties of the job

• To provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Low Secure services within the Rehabilitation and High Support care hub in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust


• To ensure that the clinical pharmacy service provided meets with the national standards for the delivery of the pharmaceutical services to patients within Low Secure Services


• To ensure that all developments required for the pharmacy service are implemented and learning spread trust wide


• To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management.


• To ensure the delivery of effective medicines management in conjunction with medical and nursing staff.


• To ensure the implementation of all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures that impact on medicines management and pharmaceutical care.


• To work in close liaison with other pharmacists and technical staff providing a pharmacy service to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust under Service Level Agreement (SLA), to ensure the delivery and supply of medication to the mental health wards, departments and units.


• To work with the Chief Pharmacist to ensure that there is liaison with the Service Directors and/ or medical manager about medicines management issues, as necessary.


• To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.

About us

You will work within a multi-disciplinary team at Prospect Place and Tatton Ward, the low secure units within Pennine Care, providing expert mental health medicines advice including at ward and board rounds. Monitoring the safety, effectiveness of medicines as well as the physical health of these long stay patients is the mainstay of the role. Supported by a friendly MDT, medical and pharmacy leadership, as well as a friendly team of pharmacists and technicians, you will receive clinical and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed. The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment.

Details

Date posted: 26 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8a

Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year PA, pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 311-M312-26

Job locations: Prospect Place, Birch Hill Hospital, Birch Road, Rochdale, OL12 9QB, United Kingdom

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council


• Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)


• Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning


• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice, or Prescribing Sciences (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

• Management qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Variety of clinical pharmacy experience including mental health


• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments


• Experience of developing guidelines or protocols


• Experience of training and supporting other members of staff


• Experience of in-patient mental health pharmacy services

Desirable

• Experience of people management


• Participation in practice based Research


• Knowledge of methods of analysis of prescribing

Knowledge

Essential

• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice


• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments


• Knowledge and experience of clinical audit

Desirable

• Developing policies and strategies


• CMHP credentialed


• Qualified Prescriber

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Pennine Care NHS FT

Employer's website: https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk

Contact

For questions about the job, contact: Lead Pharmacist Specialist Network, Kathy Morgan, [e-mail], 07517579208

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