Advanced Pharmacist

Job summary

Job Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and dedicated pharmacist to lead the development of our Neighbourhood Mental Health pharmacy services across the Trust. As a key member of our senior management team, you will oversee and manage the Lead Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians within our Neighbourhood teams.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and develop community pharmacy services across LPT. The role requires networking, driving innovation in mental health medicines optimisation, and working collaboratively with stakeholders. Your efforts will span the interface of inpatient and community services, ensuring seamless care transitions and improved patient outcomes.

An independent prescribing qualification and a post-graduate qualification in psychiatric pharmacy or substantial relevant experience in mental health are essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

This post is essential for the delivery of a modern, specialist mental health service across the primary-secondary care interface in the health community.

You will be the strategic lead for the Pharmacy provision across Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams. You will oversee a team of Pharmacists and Technicians across LLR, ensuring the medicine related needs of service users living in the community with complex mental health needs are met.

In the role you will use your experience, skills and initiative to develop, co-ordinate and provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to community based patients and their carers within Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT).

You will be an expert in psychiatric therapeutics and provide a specialist referral point for all health and social care professionals working within the neighbourhood teams.

Job responsibilities

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.