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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy (Pharmacist)
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
310-CORP-7987731
Employer
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Elizabeth House Fulbourn Hospital
Town
Cambridge
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/07/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust logo

Advanced Pharmacist - Community Mental Health and Assertive Outreach

Band 8a

Job overview

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated  pharmacist to undertake a key clinical role within our community mental health and assertive outreach teams.

Our pharmacists play an integral role as members of the multi-disciplinary team and this post will suit a pharmacist wishing to join an inclusive and friendly working environment to improve medicines optimisation for our patients.  

The ideal candidate will have a commitment to teamwork, a sense of 
accountability, plus an ability to work under pressure. 

We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.  

The pharmacy team has various bases across the county and the successful candidate will be based at one of them with some flexibility for hybrid working, if agreed.  It is essential to be able to travel to various sites across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Community Mental Health and Assertive Outreach will work within community mental health teams and join our new assertive outreach team to help shape a service that makes a real difference for adults with severe and enduring mental health needs. 

This is an exciting opportunity to work with individuals who find it difficult to engage with traditional services, often facing challenges such as substance misuse, homelessness, or social isolation. 

You will be part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team, providing flexible, and person-centred support to patients and service users as well as supporting a system approach to mental health medicines optimisation and management. 

 

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

1. Identification of appropriate cohorts of patients for medication review including patients on complex medication regimes and possibly unsafe high-risk medication regimes. 
2. Support individual patients to reduce medicines associated risk and support structured deprescribing of any medicines that are no longer deemed necessary for individual patients.  
3. Undertake independent prescribing as appropriate for individual patients.  
4. Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings or case conferences to identify medication problems and provide advice. 
5. Conducting medication education sessions for patients and carers, either on a one to-one or group basis. 
6. Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual circumstances. 
7. Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses. 
8. Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation. 
9. Giving medicines optimisation and management advice to medical, nursing and other staff, and medicines information to all members of staff. 
10. Undertaking teaching sessions on medication and related medication management issues for other professionals. 

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registration with GPhC.
  • Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Independent Prescriber or working towards an independent prescribing qualification
  • Member of, or working towards, membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Postgraduate employment as a pharmacist
  • Experience in two or more of mental health, clinical pharmacy role, research, clinical trials and/or audit, medicines protocol/guideline development and implementation
Desirable criteria
  • Management of staff
  • Supervisory Role

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Able to work independently and prioritise work appropriately
  • Good written communication skills
  • Computer literate
  • Experience of multidisciplinary team working
  • Decision making skills
Desirable criteria
  • Effective project management skills

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of expert knowledge relating to clinical pharmacy, medication safety and antimicrobial stewardship
  • Understanding of medicines and pharmacy legislation
  • Up to date knowledge of NHS and other relevant policies in relation to medicines safety

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - SilverMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.NHS Rainbow badgeFoster FriendlyStep into healthMenopause Workplace PledgeArmed Forces Covenant

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
Clare Mundell
Job title
Chief Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01223 856171
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