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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-M312-26
Employer
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Prospect Place, Birch Hill Hospital
Town
Rochdale
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 PA, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/11/2026 23:59

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Senior Clinical Pharmacist Low Secure Services

NHS AfC: Band 8a

 

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Job overview

We have an excellent  opportunity for a pharmacist to join our Rehabilitation and High Support service.  You will work within the Low Secure units primarily at Birch Hill Hospital but also at the Tameside site, acting as a key contributor within the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness.  You will be embedded within the MDT as well as part of a friendly pharmacy team within the Trust. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for a clinical role within a friendly and forward thinking team.

Main duties of the job

To provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Low  Secure services within the Rehabilitation and High Support care hub in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust  
To ensure that the clinical pharmacy service provided meets with the national standards for the delivery of the pharmaceutical services to patients within Low Secure Services 
To ensure that all developments required for the pharmacy service are implemented and learning spread trust wide 
To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management. 
To ensure the delivery of effective medicines management in conjunction with medical and nursing staff. 
To ensure the implementation of all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures that impact on medicines management and pharmaceutical care. 
To work in close liaison with other pharmacists and technical staff providing a pharmacy service to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust under Service Level Agreement (SLA), to ensure the delivery and supply of medication to the mental health wards,  departments and units. 
To work with the Chief Pharmacist to ensure that there is liaison with the Service  Directors and/ or medical manager about medicines management issues, as necessary. 
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 team at Prospect Place and Tatton Ward, the low secure units within Pennine Care, providing expert mental health medicines advice including at ward and board rounds. Monitoring the safety, effectiveness of medicines as well as the physical health of these long stay patients is the mainstay of the role.  Supported by a friendly MDT, medical and pharmacy leadership, as well as a friendly team of pharmacists and technicians, 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 deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the Low secure units; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
  • Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
  • Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy
  • Practice, or Prescribing Sciences (or equivalent experience)
Desirable criteria
  • Management qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Variety of clinical pharmacy experience including mental health
  • Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
  • Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
  • Experience of training and supporting other members of staff
  • Experience of in-patient mental health pharmacy services
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of people management
  • Participation in practice based Research
  • Knowledge of methods of analysis of prescribing

Knowledge

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
  • Knowledge and experience of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
  • developing policies and strategies
  • CMHP credentialed
  • Qualified Prescriber

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
Kathy Morgan
Job title
Lead Pharmacist Specialist Network
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07517579208
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