About this role
Job summary
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 exciting rotational pharmacist opportunities, with structured training and a clear 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 inpatients, 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 mental health knowledge.
Whether you work in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, primary care, or you 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 career where you can develop clinically, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Available Posts: We are recruiting two permanent band 6 to 7 rotational pharmacist positions: 1 Post - Highgate Mental Health Centre, N19 5NX and 1 Post - St Ann's Hospital , N15 3TH.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 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.
Job description Job responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and key responsibilities associated with this rotational pharmacist position.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations Essential
Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent; Membership with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC); Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
Desirable
RPS membership; Commitment to CPD evidenced through participation in suitable programmes.
Skills/ Abilities Essential
Good time management skills and ability to prioritise; Accurate dispensing, checking and prescription monitoring skills and ability to follow written procedure; Problem Solving skills; Ability to establish recording systems and to provide necessary reports; Ability to work both independently and as part of the multidisciplinary team; Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands; Good communication skills -Written and verbal; Communicate medicine related information to patients, relatives, prescribers; Patients may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities; Ability to work closely and form good working relationships with a wide range of people; Act as a positive role model, dynamic, motivated caring and supportive; Problem solving Skills
Desirable
Motivate and inspire others and push the boundaries of the profession; Critical appraisal skills
Experience/ Knowledge Essential
Experience of provision of Medicines Information and associated systems; Experience of providing medicines education to users and carers; Knowledge of relevant pharmaceutical standards of practice; Knowledge of recent initiatives in pharmacy
Desirable
Hospital pharmacy experience minimum of 1 year as pharmacist; Experience of working in a pharmacy service for people with mental illness
Personal Qualities Essential
Good Interpersonal skills; Good organisational skills ;Able to work under pressure; Caring towards others
Desirable
Innovative; Proactive
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Highgate Mental Health Centre- West (Pharmacy) (N19 5NX) OR St Ann's Hospital (N15 3TH)
Dartmouth Park Hill
London
N19 5NX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)