Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate - Mental Health Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0693-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury
- Town
- Canterbury
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Junior Pharmacist
Band 6
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
What is it like to work for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust? Why not find out and join our Pharmacy Team at St Martin's Hospital, Canterbury? We are seeking a Band 6 Junior Pharmacist. Apply now and kickstart your career in the NHS.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our team, with the opportunity to complete a clinical certificate/diploma and train as a Mental Health Pharmacist through individually tailored developmental support.
During your journey and development within KMPT, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and the key aspects of this clinical post will include attending ward rounds, patient education and counselling, clinical audit and medicines information.
You must be able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health problems and be driven to improve their care through medicines management.
Main duties of the job
To be part of a team that provides a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the mental health unit.
Support patients and their families by providing advice about the use of medication, optimising treatment, providing information and liaising with acute and other care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care.
This role does not require mental health experience and the expectation would be for the candidate to learn and build their experience on the job through formal learning and work-based practice.
Ongoing training and support will be provided by the Lead Education and Training Pharmacist and the local clinical pharmacy team, with clinical supervision being provided by one of our experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacists.
Further support will be available from the Trust-wide pharmacy team if required.
You will be part of a clinical pharmacy team that provides a medicines management service to the inpatient wards.
You will also be involved in working with the other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services alongside pharmacy and trust priorities and objectives.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The roles and duties of these posts include:
Helping with the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the mental health unit, including ward pharmacy visits, multidisciplinary team meetings and consultant reviews in an inpatient setting.
Support patients and their families by providing advice about the use of medication, optimising treatment, providing information and liaising with acute and other care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care.
Contribute to good physical health and wellbeing of patients by providing expert advice and performing interventions to improve physical health.
Junior Pharmacist Benefits
- Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank Holiday’s.
- Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
- Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online.
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in pharmacy + 1 year pre-registration training
- Registered with GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification in psychopharmacology
- Post-graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent specialist knowledge, acquired through a broad spectrum of clinical pharmacy training and experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Interest in working in Mental Health Services
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in mental health services
- Knowledge of Mental Health therapeutics
- Understanding of principals of Clinical Governance
- Able to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary setting
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Good level of interpersonal skills so as to effectively exchange complex and sensitive information
- Good level of analytical skills
- Up to date knowledge of prescribing issues in mental health
- Relevant knowledge of pharmaceutical standards of practice
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated
- Proactive
- Able to work under pressure
- Able to work on own initiative or as part of a team
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
- Elaine Mok
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07748180488
- Additional information
Jag Bahia, Chief Pharmacist on 07796197394
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