Job summary
- Main area
- mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-M203-25
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stockport
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 PA pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/05/2025
Employer heading

Senior Clinical Pharmacist Mental Health Access and Living Well
NHS AfC: Band 8a
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
Job overview
We have an excellent opportunity for a senior mental health pharmacist to join our Living Well & Access Teams in Stockport. You will work the Living Well & Access Team as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within your 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 provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across your borough.
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in the Living Well Team.
To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the Living Well Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.
To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway 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 Living Well 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 Living Well & Access Team within your 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 service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Stockport; 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
- 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
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
- Katherine Hosseini
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 716 1292
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