Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate pharmacist with a strong background in clinical pharmacy, quality improvement and innovation to develop their career at a senior level, through joining our dynamic pharmacy team. This post provides leadership to the mental health clinical pharmacy teams on the east-side of the Trust, covering Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). 

Your role will be to lead the clinical pharmacy team providing medicines optimisation services to wards and in community teams, support and develop independent prescribing pharmacists, and ensure clinical staff support our wider teams in the best possible way across a large geographical area.

The postholder will also become an integral member of the senior pharmacy team, supporting the Chief Pharmacist to set the strategic direction of both medicines optimisation in the organisation, and the pharmacy services.

You will represent Pharmacy at Trust wide meetings to develop and support the ‘patient-facing’ aspects of our medicines optimisation agenda.

The post includes on-call and some weekend and bank holiday working.

Main duties of the job

Participate in the pharmacy’s provision of safe, effective and responsive clinical and pharmaceutical supply services to Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, and any contracted services.

Contribute to the strategic planning of the pharmacy service and implementation of service objectives.

Lead the development, delivery and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services across the Trust, in line with the Trust and national medicines optimisation agendas.

Develop a competent, motivated and versatile clinical pharmacy workforce across the service, managed within existing budget and underpinned by technology, robust governance and risk management.

Work with the Chief Pharmacist, Deputy Chief Pharmacists and other Clinical Lead Pharmacists to ensure strategic plans are delivered and resources are utilised safely, efficiently and effectively to improve financial management of treatments and medicines expenditure, patient experience and outcome.

Manage the Locality Lead Pharmacists and Specialist Pharmacists working in BSW,  as well as BNSSG and SSC, to deliver clinical services and medicines optimisation, including audit and monitoring.

To lead on the delivery and development of robust and progressive medicines optimisation, working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure medicines optimisation is embedded in the organisation at operational and practice level.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.