Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: On-call out of hours duties, dispensary including weekend working when needed
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On-call out of hours duties, dispensary including weekend working when needed)
- Job ref
- 350-TWS8037152
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medicines Management Department
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Clinical Pharmacist
Band 6
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
We have a fantastic and highly rewarding opportunity for B6 Rotational Pharmacists to join our friendly and dynamic team working across our clinical services.
Its an exciting time to join our Team. Our services have been restructured to support an enhanced service model under a senior leadership team which is fully committed to delivering outstanding services and investing in the development of its workforce.
Our roles provide an unparalleled opportunity to develop skills and experience across a wide range of clinical services including mental health, secure, and physical health inpatient wards.
We provide a well-structured support system, including robust individual and group supervision, and access to personal and professional development opportunities.
Previous hospital pharmacy or mental health experience is not essential. Induction and training will be provided.
We welcome applications from foundation year students due to qualify in Summer 2026, newly registered pharmacists keen to work in secondary care or more experienced pharmacists looking for a new challenge or pharmacists seeking to gain experience or grow their expertise in mental and physical health.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacist with excellent communication, organisational, and team-working skills to deliver clinical pharmacy services alongside multidisciplinary teams.
You will be reliable, willing to learn, able to work on your own initiative and flexible to support the wider pharmacy team.
This role offers a unique opportunity to undertake rotations across intermediate care physical health wards, inpatient mental health, secure and learning disabilities services.
Successful candidates will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to designated wards, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multi-disciplinary team, to maximise patient pharmaceutical care.
IMPORTANT: The main departmental base is at Maghull Health Park but this post is rotational and regular work-related travel across various Mersey Care sites is required.
The role is mainly clinically focused and includes a requirement to spend at least one session per week in the dispensary to develop and maintain core competencies.
Successful applicants will be expected to support the out of hours advice only medicines advice service at a maximum rota frequency of 1 in 12, including weekend working in the dispensary between 9:30am-13:30pm.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role offers a unique opportunity to undertake rotations across intermediate care physical health wards, inpatient mental health, secure and learning disabilities services.
Successful candidates will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to designated wards, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multi-disciplinary team, to maximise patient pharmaceutical care.
IMPORTANT: The main departmental base is at Maghull Health Park but this post is rotational and regular work-related travel across various Mersey Care sites is required.
The role is mainly clinically focused and includes a requirement to spend at least one session per week in the dispensary to develop and maintain core competencies.
Successful applicants will be expected to support the out of hours advice only medicines advice service at a maximum rota frequency of 1 in 12, including weekend working in the dispensary between 9:30am-13:30pm.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master of Pharmacy degree, or equivalent qualification
- Completion of preregistration training
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: • – written • – verbal • – listening
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good time management
- Decision making skills
- Ability to travel between different sites
- Ability to work as a team player and to work independently
- Ability to work flexibly
- Pro-active and displays initiative
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Report writing skills
- Professional manner
Desirable criteria
- Critical appraisal skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Experience of providing education or information regarding medicines
- Experience of working in providing a pharmacy service within a mental health or learning disabilities setting
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous improvement – committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all.
- Accountability – taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care
- Respect – how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way
- Enthusiasm – demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it
- Support – actively supporting others with compassion and courage
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of recent initiatives within pharmacy
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
- Leticia Bernal
- Job title
- Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500226658
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