Advanced to Senior Pharmacist- Mental health
The closing date is 21 August 2025
Job summary
Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with experience in mental health and wish to work with a small friendly team to achieve the best outcomes for individual service users? Then we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for a dynamic Band 8a Senior Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist to join our small friendly pharmacy team which also has close links to the wider pharmacy department within the organisation. We are passionate about providing a high quality clinical pharmacy service. You would be working within our inpatient setting alongside members of a multi-disciplinary team to support prescribing and offer specialist clinical pharmacy advice. You would be contributing to the recovery pathway of our service users within both medium and low secure forensic wards as well as our step down wards
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Mental Health inpatient Service provides assessment, care, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery for 164 service users. The hospital has three speciality service lines:
- Male Secure Mental Health Services
- Women's Secure Mental Health Services
- Male Secure Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Service
The main duties of the post holder will be to provide a patient focussed clinical pharmacy service to service users in an inpatient setting. You will be expected to provide a high level of pharmaceutical care to service users as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team and participate in regular ward reviews. The advanced post would also involve actively supporting the education and training of junior pharmacist, pre-registration pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other healthcare professionals.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Details
Date posted
18 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
351-CEN2291-RA
Job locations
Guild Park Hospital
Longridge
FY4 4FE
Employer details
Employer name
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Guild Park Hospital
Longridge
FY4 4FE
Employer's website
https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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