Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Including out of hours + on-call commitment)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0503
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chase Farm Hospital
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Specialist Pharmacist Team Leader
Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist Team Lead to head up our Enfield pharmacy service. This is a pivotal time to join North London NHS Foundation Trust, as we continue to modernise and innovate in the way we deliver high-quality, patient-centred pharmacy support.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
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Lead and inspire a dedicated pharmacy team;
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Influence service development aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan;
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Contribute to trust-wide strategic initiatives that enhance patient safety and clinical outcomes;
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Build strong relationships with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders;
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Develop your leadership skills within a supportive, collaborative environment.
We are a friendly, motivated, and inclusive team providing a comprehensive trust-wide pharmacy service. We are seeking a dynamic, resilient, proactive, and forward-thinking leader who shares our enthusiasm for service improvement and our commitment to delivering excellent care for our patients and communities.
If you are passionate about driving change, eager to develop your leadership skills, and ready to take on a rewarding challenge, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- To support the Associate Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Operations Lead Pharmacist in leading, developing, delivering, and evaluating pharmacy services and medicines optimisation as delegated by the Chief and Deputy Chief Pharmacists.
- To be an active member of the Pharmacy team with allocated management responsibilities.
- Provide leadership, maintain and improve standards of clinical pharmacy practice, quality assurance, risk management and other issues of clinical governance related to medicines optimisation.
- To play a leading role in delivering the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
- To hold a Trust-wide leadership position for Medicines Optimisation in a defined specialist area of practice and maintain a clinical commitment.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Diploma in Psychiatry
- Educational Supervisor or Practice Supervisor Accreditation
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 18 months post-qualification experience as a pharmacist
- Significant and demonstrable experience of working as a clinical pharmacist practitioner in mental health. Must have highly specialised knowledge of psychopharmacology and mental health pharmacy services
- Experience of supervising and managing staff
- Experience of training and educating healthcare staff from a variety of professions
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of CMM ePMA system
- Evidence of involvement in the management of difficult situations and conflict resolution
- Involvement in project work
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate with patients and all grades of health care staff (verbally and in writing)
- Good interpersonal skills, confident and assertive when dealing with other professionals
- Ability to influence medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
- Ability to work both independently/autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to prioritise and respond to urgent requests for advice
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- Excellent team player
- Must have a positive “can do” attitude
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
- Kwame Peprah
- Job title
- Associate Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02082137413
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