Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0715
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kent and Medway Children and Young People's Mental Health Service, Swale
- Town
- Sheerness
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Clinical Pharmacist
Band 8a
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed Clinical Pharmacist to join the Kent and Medway Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service (CYPMHS).
This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist looking for an innovative clinical role at the forefront of patient-centred care within the community, offering excellent opportunities for professional development and a good work–life balance.
In this role, you will work closely with a multidisciplinary team, supporting children and young people within community settings and, occasionally, in inpatient units across the Trust. This position offers significant scope for professional growth and advanced clinical practice.
The successful candidate should hold (or be working towards) an independent prescribing qualification, have a postgraduate qualification in pharmacy, and possess experience in mental health. Ongoing training and clinical supervision will be provided by the Consultant Pharmacist and Consultant Psychiatrists. You will also be supported by a Pharmacy Technician and the wider Trust Pharmacy Team, including community lead pharmacists.
Our pharmacists benefit from numerous professional development opportunities, including support for postgraduate mental health pharmacy qualifications and NHS leadership programmes.
This role will cover Kent CYPMHS in Swale and Canterbury and Coastal and the base can be agreed following interview. It may also involve periodic travel to other sites across Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to lead the medication-related aspects of care within CYPMHS. This includes providing expert medicines information, delivering education and training, and offering both group and one-to-one support for children and young people. You will also contribute to the development of clinical guidelines and protocols, and work closely with Consultant Psychiatrists and Non-Medical Prescribers to promote safe, effective, and cost-efficient prescribing.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing a high-quality clinical pharmacy service within CYPMHS, optimising patient outcomes, enhancing patient experience, and supporting care pathways across Kent and Medway in partnership with wider healthcare providers.
- Contributing to improved health outcomes by taking a holistic approach to care and ensuring the safe, effective use of medicines within CYPMHS.
- Engaging directly with children, young people, and their families, ensuring that their views inform decisions about their care
If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been waiting for, come and join our diverse and compassionate team, committed to delivering excellent care and support for children, young people, and their families.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
- Promoting improvements in the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of medicines use, and supporting holistic management of clinical conditions across CYPMHS.
- Line-managing Pharmacy Technicians within CYPMHS.
- Participating in the clinical pharmacist on-call rota.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Master’s Degree in Pharmacy
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council, with at least 5 year’s post graduate experience
- Postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent specialist knowledge, acquired through a broad spectrum of clinical pharmacy training and experience
- Non- Medical Prescribing qualification or working towards this qualification
Desirable criteria
- Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy
- Practice Supervisor Qualification
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychopharmacology
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years’ experience of working in Mental Health services
- Knowledge of Mental Health therapeutics
- An awareness of NHS Plan, National Service Framework (NSF), and clinical governance priorities
- Evidence of Education, training, performance management and development of staff
- Proven experience in managing change or developing and delivering pharmacy services
- Experience of leading undertaking clinical audits
Desirable criteria
- Experience of budget setting and management of drugs budgets
- Experience working in CYPMHS
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- High level of analytical skills and problem solving ability, to ensure that the post holder is able to provide advice on complex issues relating to medicine management and Trust policies.
- Knowledge and experience of Primary and Secondary Care working
- Confident and assertive when dealing with other professionals
- IT skills - word-processing, PowerPoint, Excel, statistical package and internet use, so that the post holder can communicate effectively with other Health care professionals and for training purposes.
- Up to date knowledge of prescribing issues in Mental Health
Desirable criteria
- Good project management skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Von-de-Viel Nettey
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07880130752
- Additional information
Jagdip Bahia, Chief Pharmacist on 07796197394
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