Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health

NHS; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health to provide high-quality pharmaceutical care across various services. The role involves working with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring compliance with legislation, and supporting patient care through expert medication management. Candidates must hold a relevant pharmacy qualification and have experience in clinical settings, particularly within mental health.

Benefits

Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Up to 27 days annual leave

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support

Free car parking at all trust sites

Free flu vaccinations every year

Qualifications

• Holds current registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council UK.
• Validated post-registration experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
• 1-2 years' experience in hospital pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient MH wards.
• Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
• Provide specialist advice and information about medicines to healthcare professionals.

Skills

Clinical teamwork

Patient care

Pharmaceutical knowledge

Education

Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)

Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Therapeutics

Job description

Go back Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health

The closing date is 03 June 2025

To ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care both throughout their admission to hospital and following discharge into assigned community mental health teams. This post involves being part of a team of specialist clinical pharmacists in mental health, playing an active role in inpatient multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.

Providing an inpatient clinical pharmacist service to nominated wards across both Redwoods and St Georges Hospital within Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). This will require working across a range of mental health services including; older people services, mental health adults of working age, learning disabilities, specialist and forensic services.

As this is a specialist clinical post in mental health the post-holder will have, or is willing to study for, a postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics in order to be able to provide a specialist clinical pharmacist service. This post involves playing an active role in inpatient and community multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.

In addition the post carries shared responsibility for supporting local education and training plans, clinical audit around medicines use, provision of Medicines Information Service, advice to community based teams

Main duties of the job

Primarily a Specialist mental health clinical role:

• Providing an inpatient clinical pharmacist service to nominated wards within Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This will require working across a range of mental health services including; older people services, mental health adults of working age, learning disabilities, specialist and forensic services.
• Visiting allocated wards to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
• Providing pharmaceutical input at multidisciplinary inpatient and community team meetings and rapid review meetings, ensuring follow up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation and where necessary liaising with relevant inpatient and community teams to undertake patient medication histories and devise pharmaceutical care plans.
• Providing practical, high quality, evidence based information on medicines to staff and ensuring medicines information provided to patients and carers is meaningful
• Supporting the Self-Administration of Medicines scheme on designated wards, ensuring it operates both safely and effectively.
• Providing pharmacist support to the dispensary for professionally checking prescriptions, responding to medicines information queries and supporting accuracy checking technicians in accuracy checking dispensed medicines as required.

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
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• 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)

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 be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

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

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient MH wards within MPFT.
• Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
• Visit allocated wards and community team bases to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, thereby ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
• Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals, thereby contributing to their safe, effective and economical use.
• Provide pharmaceutical input at multi-disciplinary team meetings, rapid review meetings and community team meetings where necessary undertaking patient medication histories and devising pharmaceutical care plans.
• Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public.
• Conduct regular 1:1 consultations about medicines with patients and carers.
• Promote the concept of shared decision making and patient choice at all times.
• Ensure the follow up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation in a timely manner following admission to hospital in line with the MPFT policy for Medicines Reconciliation.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Holds current registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council UK
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree
• Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Therapeutics (or willing to undertake)

Experience

• Evidence of working as part of a clinical team
• Validated post-registration experience working as a clinical pharmacist
• 1-2 years' experience in hospital pharmacy
• Validated experience within mental health

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

Address

Redwood Pharmacy

Somerby Drive, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury, SY3 8DS

Somerby Drive, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury, SY3 8DS