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Job summary

Main area
mental health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
311-M284-26
Employer
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Tameside
Town
Ashton-under-Lyne
Salary
£57,528 - £64,750 PA pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/06/2026 23:59

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Senior Clinical Pharmacist Community Mental Health

NHS AfC: Band 8a

 

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Job overview

We have an excellent  opportunity for a pharmacists to join our   community mental health offer.   You will work with the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness.  There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.

Main duties of the job

To deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside .

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.

To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the CMHT, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.

To lead on ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.

To provide training to the CMHT / Neighbourhood Mental Health team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.

To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management

To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.

Working for our organisation

You will work within a multi-disciplinary CMHT within Tameside . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services. You will receive  clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit.  You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
  • Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
  • Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy
  • Practice, or Prescribing Sciences (or equivalent experience)
Desirable criteria
  • Management qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Variety of clinical pharmacy experience including mental health
  • Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
  • Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
  • Experience of training and supporting other members of staff
  • Experience of in-patient mental health pharmacy services
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of people management
  • Participation in practice based Research
  • Knowledge of methods of analysis of prescribing

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
  • Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
  • Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
  • Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
  • Knowledge and experience of clinical audit
Desirable criteria
  • developing policies and strategies
  • CMHP credentialed
  • Qualified Prescriber

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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
Paul Reid
Job title
Acting Deputy Chief Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01617161703
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