Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0701
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 (pro rata if part-time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Pharmacist, Mental Health – Band 7
Band 7
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
Open to early career pharmacists, Band 7
Do you have an interest in working in a multidisciplinary team where your contribution makes a difference to peoples' health, wellbeing and quality of life? Would you like to work in a team who will support your development as a pharmacist?
If you have an interest in Mental Health or would like to gain experience in Mental Health Pharmacy then apply for this post! We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join our clinical team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust.
The successful candidate will provide ward services across our inpatient wards and develop further to be able to support our community mental health teams across Gloucestershire.
We have flexible working options and welcome applications for part-time and full-time positions.
Main duties of the job
- To deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients under the care of GHC and to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for their care.
- To provide clinical cover to the mental health dispensary to promote safe, rational, effective and cost-effective use of medicines.
- To support patients and their families by providing advice about the actions and use of medication, optimising treatment, providing information and liaising with acute and other care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care.
- To contribute to good physical health wellbeing of patients under GHC Mental health services by providing expert advice and performing interventions to improve physical health.
- To support pharmacy staff to deliver an effective dispensing and supply service.
- Undertake (with training, support and supervision) patient-focused improvement projects.
- This post has an emergency duty commitment (on call) covering the acute trust Gloucestershire Hospitals NHSFT Pharmacy.
- This post has a commitment for weekend and bank holiday working on a rota basis.
Working for our organisation
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on our two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we’re one of the largest NHS trusts in the country.
- Our workforce of almost 9,000 staff provide high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas
- The pharmacy department at Gloucester Royal Hospital provides the clinical pharmacy and dispensing services to Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC) under a service level agreement (SLA).
- The post holder will be part of the specialist mental health pharmacy team working out of the mental health specific dispensary base in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be part of the specialist mental health pharmacy team delivering comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients under the care of GHC and to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for their care.
Clinical Pharmacy Services to Inpatient Wards and Community Mental Health Teams
Be responsible and accountable for providing a clinical pharmacy service to allocated inpatient wards and community teams:
- Ensure that designated ward and team bases are visited by a pharmacist at agreed intervals.
- Regularly attend and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Proactively review, rationalise and optimise patients’ medications.
- Review all prescriptions regularly, ensuring adherence to legislation, national and local guidelines and formularies.
- Advise on individual drug treatments, including possible adverse effects and interactions.
- Undertake medicines reconciliation assurance in conjunction with the medicines management technicians.
- Deal with and report medication incidents.
- Work to improve patients’ concordance with medication.
- Provide information to staff, patients and their representatives, including individual counselling on newly prescribed medicines and discharge counselling.
- Produce comprehensive patient medication histories as needed.
Maintain appropriate clinical documentation and records, including intervention/contribution monitoring and outcome data.
Advise prescribers and other healthcare professionals on clinical pharmacy issues, answer queries and solve complex problems.
Work across traditional boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team.
Deal with medicines information queries from patients, medical and other healthcare professionals, using a wide range of information sources both electronic and hard copy regarding drug-related queries.
Provide advice to clinicians on unlicensed medicines use and areas of practice where the evidence base is lacking and medical opinion may differ.
Responsibility for periodically checking controlled drug stocks on wards and outside units as per trust-wide audit criteria.
Please see link to job description and person specification for more detail.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with GPhC
- United Kingdom recognised degree in Pharmacy
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through revalidation
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent skills
- Certificate in psychiatric pharmacy or gain equivalent specialist knowledge
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work alone and unsupervised.
- Able to use initiative & prioritise workload as well as work in a team
- Excellent and efficient time management skills
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk & promote safety
- Intermediate competence in standard range of IT programs.
- Concentration and accuracy required for clinical validation and accuracy checking prescriptions and performing calculations.
- Work effectively as a member of the multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in mental health pharmacy
- Experience working in hospital pharmacy
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
- Self-motivated
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Gemma Wareing
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist – Mental Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 6834
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