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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
311-O712-26
Employer
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Oldham Borough
Town
Oldham
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 PA pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/04/2026 08:00
Interview date
06/05/2026

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Senior Clinical Pharmacist Community Mental Health Band 8a

NHS AfC: Band 8a

 

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Job overview

We have an excellent  opportunity for a Senior Mental Health Pharmacist to join our expanding community mental health offer.  You will work with the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Oldham, acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with severe and enduring mental illness.

The post-holder will act as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within the borough.

There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment, providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.

Main duties of the job

To deliver the established Clinical Pharmacy Service to the Specialist Neigbourhood Mental Health team in Oldham and to provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy across your borough.

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.

To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.

To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway within the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Services and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.

To provide training to the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.

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

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

Working for our organisation

You will work within a multi-disciplinary Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team within the borough . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services.

You will receive  clinical and 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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy services to the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in the Oldham borough.

The main responsibilities are covered in the job description.

Person specification

essential

Essential criteria
  • Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
  • Qualified Independent Prescriber or undergoing qualification
  • Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • developing policies and strategies

essential and desireable

Essential criteria
  • Experience of delivering training
  • Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
  • Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
  • undertaken audits
  • Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
  • Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of people management

person specfication

Essential criteria
  • Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
  • Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
  • Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
  • Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
  • Qualified prescriber
Desirable criteria
  • developing policies and strategies
  • CMHP credentialed

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Karen Titchen
Job title
Specialist Services CMHT Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 716 4151
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