Are you a motivated pharmacist looking to take the next step in your career and develop your clinical expertise in mental health while making a difference to people's lives?
North London NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Department is offering an exciting 12-month fixed-term rotational pharmacist opportunity, with structured training and a clear development pathway from Band 6 to Band 7.
As a Rotational Mental Health Pharmacist, you will gain experience across two sites and a range of services, including inpatient, rehabilitation and older adult services, providing medicines optimisation, clinical pharmacy support and patient-centred care. Working as part of multidisciplinary teams, you will collaborate with doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to improve outcomes for service users.
This role is ideal for pharmacists who are passionate about delivering high-quality care and eager to develop specialist knowledge in mental health pharmacy.
Whether you work in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, primary care, or are a trainee pharmacist due to imminently join the GPhC register, we would love to hear from you.
If you are looking for a rewarding opportunity to develop clinically, contribute to service improvement and help transform the lives of people affected by mental illness, this could be the perfect role for you.
BAND 6
1. To be responsible for the provision and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services, in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacists.
2. To provide input into policy and procedures affecting the use of pharmaceuticals at both local and trust wide levels under direction.
3. To provide and participate in the following: ward–based clinical pharmacy, in-patient and outpatient dispensing (including supporting the clozapine dispensing service), patient counselling, medicines information, audit.
BAND 7
1. The Senior Clinical Pharmacist will play a pivotal role in delivering a high-quality, patient-focused pharmacy service to mental health wards, forensic wards, community teams, and rehabilitation and crisis services within the Trust. This includes supporting medicines optimisation, promoting safe and effective use of medicines, and contributing to clinical governance.
2. The post-holder will supervise junior staff and trainees, contribute to education and training initiatives, and support quality improvement (QI) programs.
3. The role requires collaboration across multidisciplinary teams and external partners, with the flexibility to adapt to evolving service needs.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
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