Specialist Clinical Pharmacist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Clayton Brook; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the UK is looking for an experienced specialist clinical pharmacist to join their mental health pharmacy team. This role involves providing clinical pharmacy input to inpatient wards and supporting a committed team focused on high-quality care. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, a pharmacy degree, and experience in mental health settings. The organization values work-life balance and offers flexible working patterns.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Support for work-life balance

Education and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified clinical pharmacist with a pharmacy degree.
• Experience in a clinical setting, especially in mental health, is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide a patient-focused clinical pharmacy service.
• Participate in consultant ward reviews and clinical audits.
• Support and educate trainee pharmacists and healthcare professionals.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Ability to work independently

Education

Pharmacy degree

Qualified clinical pharmacist

Job description

To contribute to the provision of a specialist mental health pharmacy service within the Central and West Lancashire Inpatient units of Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The role will provide clinical pharmacy input into the Scarisbrick and Chorley Adult Mental Health Inpatient wards. As a purely clinical service there is currently no pharmacy-based dispensary commitment, bank holiday or weekend working.

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic specialist clinical pharmacist to join the pharmacy team based in the mental health units in Ormskirk and Chorley. The role also includes providing clinical pharmacy input to the mental health inpatient units in Chorley and Preston, along with Pharmacy colleagues based in those units. The successful applicant will work alongside members of the multi-disciplinary team to support prescribing and offer specialist clinical pharmacy advice. You will also have close links to the wider Pharmacy department across LSCFT.

The main duties of the post holder will be to provide a patient‑focussed clinical pharmacy service to service users in the inpatient setting. You will be expected to provide a high level of pharmaceutical care to patients as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team, participate in consultant ward reviews, undertake clinical audit and be actively involved in the education and training of trainee pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other healthcare professionals. The role also involves providing support to other members of the Pharmacy team through clinical supervision. The Pharmacy Service is highly regarded within the organisation and is a well‑established team with a wealth of expertise in both Mental Health and Physical services, and continues to provide high quality clinical input into all aspects of the health provision delivered by the organisation. We are a supportive team committed to the education and development of our expanding service. Should you wish to join us you will become one of a large team of Clinical Pharmacists, Medicines Management Technicians, Medicines Management Nurses and Pharmacy Assistants working across the Trust.

The role demands an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to work on their own initiative.

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.