Strategic Lead Pharmacist for MH & LD Medicine Services (Community)

You will provide strategic direction, leadership and a strong clear vision to the pharmacy team and overall service, ensuring the medicine related needs of our service users living in the community with complex mental health and learning disabilities are met. You will provide highly specialist advice on pharmaceutical matters, undertaking medicines-related risk / clinical management and ensuring compliance with Trust procedures, national guidelines and legislation to provision of care to individual service users, carers and services at a Trust wide and regional level. You will lead on the development and implementation of governance processes to provide assurance around the safe transfer of medicines related care as well as supporting highly specialist care teams to ensure they have appropriate medicines governance processes in place. Through forging positive relationships, you will encourage innovation and implementation of partnership and collaborative working with other services to
support the medicine optimisation agenda across Leeds and ensure mental health pharmacy services continue to meet the needs of the Leeds population it serves. As a member of the Senior Pharmacy Team help develop a strategic vision and delivery plan for the pharmacy service and take a lead role in supporting the team to implement this through the provision of managerial/professional support, direction and advice .