Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-7165832-CORP
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wayside House
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/06/2025
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
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Job overview
Clinical Pharmacist: Community Mental Health - Band 8a
37.5 hrs per week, permanent role
Are you looking for an innovative role, whilst also maintaining a good work/life balance, with no weekend working or on-call work required? An opportunity to work within a caring organisation? Look no further!
The primary role of this specialist post is to contribute to the provision of a comprehensive, high quality clinical pharmacy service to clinical teams within the Coventry and Warwickshire area. You will work as part of a well-established and respected Medicines Management team, whose focus is to develop innovative, patient-centred services and roles . No dispensary work is involved.
Main duties of the job
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
To actively contribute to and participate in the provision of Safe, High Quality, Timely, Patient Facing Clinical Pharmacy Services within the Partnership Trust, as part of the Trust’s Medicines Management Team
To participate as an active member of specific ward/unit/clinical teams, and support medicines management staff in their roles and other healthcare professionals
To provide expert pharmaceutical and clinical advice on all medicines and pharmaceutical related matters
To develop and participate in the delivery of education and training sessions to patients/carers and other healthcare staff
To support the implementation of the Medicines Optimisation strategy as part of the Medicines Management Team
To participate in local audit work and the collection of clinical activity data to support service developments
Working for our organisation
Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership trust received an overall rating of Good by the CQC. The CQC rated the Trust for having well-led, caring, responsive and effective mental health, learning disability and community health services.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
You will have experience in working within secondary care and be a forward thinking individual who has the ability to adapt, change, and contribute to excellent patient care.
You must have an independent means of transport to travel around the Trust’s geographic area and also to work flexibly to meets the needs of the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters Pharmacy degree, or equivalent
- Current and continued registration and membership with The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (practising member)
- Specialist clinical post-graduate qualification (eg. Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy or Clinical Pharmacy or willingness to work towards a qualification)
- Independent Prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- A broad technical and pharmaceutical knowledge relating to the promotion of high quality, effective and cost effective use of medicines
- Must have a sound knowledge of pharmacy processes
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
- Priti Ved
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Community Mental Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07747 486778
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