Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 354-CO-21860
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Meadowfield Hospital
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro-rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/04/2026
Employer heading
Specialist Pharmacist Mental Health
NHS AfC: Band 7
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you enthusiastic and passionate about improving the lives of patients with mental health conditions, then a role as a specialist pharmacist in our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Trust could be right for you. We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative, skilled clinical pharmacist to work as a core member of our community teams across West Sussex.
You should have an interest in working within a specialist mental health service, an understanding of the medicines used and patients we care for. The role will be based at the Trust community treatments clinics but also include home visitations across the West Sussex area.
The post holder will be supported to undertake further accreditation and training as appropriate, and there are many opportunities to develop the role and service to fit in with our new Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) structure, allowing your vision for clinical care to grow with the service in a collaborative, holistic and accessible therapeutic environment.
You will be joining a friendly, supportive pharmacy team which is highly regarded in the Trust. This role represents a great opportunity to start or continue a career in mental health and can lead to future senior roles.
The pharmacy leadership team is committed to education and training of the pharmacy workforce and will provide access to external training (including the introductory College of Mental Health Pharmacy Psych 1 and Psych 2 programme).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to ensure patients in the community get the best from their medicines, have a strong commitment to medicines education and training so that patients, pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals are well informed and able to manage their use of medicines correctly, safely and cost effectively.
The role requires an excellent clinical communicator with an interest in patient facing and multidisciplinary team working. In addition, the appraisal of clinical evidence and generation of high quality pharmacotherapeutic advice to support colleagues will feature as a core part of working.
Community services increasingly interface with primary care partners to ensure both the transition of care and the triage and receipt of referred patient, pharmacist input into these processes is crucial to maintain the medicines safety and optimisation.
There is currently no commitment to weekend work. The On-call service is for advice only and is currently more than 1 in 30 weeks, with senior support provided.
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trusts in the UK. We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.
About us
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
You can expect:
- Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes.
- Flexible working opportunities
- Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
- A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- Excellent NHS Pension Scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact to discuss further.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries please feel free to contact to discuss further.
We’re excited to be bringing a new medicines supply service in-house later in 2026—an important step that creates fresh opportunities for innovation, skill development, and career progression across our team. This Pharmacy Hub will be situated at our Swandean site in Worthing. This change will also strengthen how we support our trainee pharmacy professionals on their career journeys. As we grow our dispensary function, all staff will play a key role in supporting the implementation and delivery of this service while we recruit into new dispensary roles, helping to shape a dynamic and collaborative working environment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Pharmacy from British University or recognised equivalent
- GPhC registration
Desirable criteria
- Membership to College of Mental Health Pharmacists (CMHP)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in clinical pharmacy practice
- Experience in carrying out Medicines Information queries, for both verbal and written specialist advice
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
- Ami Hale
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist Community Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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